A Gresham College News Today

By Jemma Slingo2021-04-04T10:48:00+01:00 The chair of the Bar Council has questioned the legal profession’s tendency to group black, Asian and minority ethnic lawyers together, saying the BAME label may ‘disguise the fact that theres massive under-representation of black members of our community at the bar’. Giving a Gresham College lecture about diversity, Derek Sweeting QC said ‘progress has been very slow in some areas’. ‘I think we need to be honest about why thats the case a...