Appointment fails to quell concerns about all-white court’s lack of diversity

Lady Justice Rose has joined the supreme court, doubling the number of female justices in the UK’s highest court in an appointment that has failed to quell concerns about lack of diversity.

Rose, educated at both Oxford and Cambridge, is a rare member of the senior judiciary whose previous career was mainly in the government legal service.

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