The Guardian view on judicial diversity: time, gentlemen, please | Editorial

The 12 members of the UK Supreme Court are all white and all but one of them are men. Change is long overdueBy the time Britain’s most senior judges break for the summer at the end of July, the old establishment may have passed a watershed. Women may finally have made it to the very top. This month, there are interviews for the post of the UK’s top judge, the president of the supreme court. Last week, applications for the role of lord chief justice, the head of the judicial system in