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It’s surprising that men’s clubs still exist at all at this point.
A group of more than 60 lawyers in England and Wales have called on all judges who are members of the men-only Garrick Club to resign from it immediately, claiming membership is “incompatible with the core principles of justice, equality and fairness”.
In an open letter, the barristers, solicitors and legal professionals say they have been concerned by recent reports in the Guardian naming dozens of senior figures in the judiciary as current members of a club that has repeatedly blocked attempts to allow women to join.
The letter, organised by the barristers Charlotte Proudman and Elisabeth Traugott, and whose other signatories include Michael Mansfield KC and Leslie Thomas KC, says: “The Garrick Club, along with its associated ethos, embodies a social and gendered ideology that starkly contrasts with the reality of the modern courtroom. It stands as a symbol of an entrenched anti-woman tradition, comprising predominantly white male membership.
“We are concerned that membership perpetuates systemic discrimination against women within the highest echelons of societal influence. Maintaining membership at the Garrick Club is fundamentally incompatible with the core principles of justice, equality and fairness, particularly for senior members of the judiciary who significantly shape jurisprudence on gender-based discrimination and inequality and gendered crimes of violence and abuse.”
The letter notes that efforts to improve the judiciary’s poor diversity record have had limited success. “Female judges remain a minority, particularly women of colour, despite efforts to increase greater diversity and inclusivity,” it says. “We therefore ask that any judge, whether they are a full-time member of the judiciary or fee-paid, resign their Garrick Club membership with immediate effect.”
The letter represents further fallout from the Guardian’s publication of the names of key British establishment figures who are listed as members of a club that has been resisting moves to open up membership to women since the 1960s.
On Wednesday the head of the civil service, Simon Case, and the head of MI6, Richard Moore, performed sudden U-turns and quit the club, 24 hours after indicating they planned to remain.
The Garrick has always been known as a club where senior barristers and judges congregate, alongside actors and leading figures from the arts, but the full extent of the club’s ties with the judiciary has never previously been set out.
The roll-call of members of the UK’s legal profession who belong to the Garrick includes a serving member of the supreme court, about 150 leading barristers, five appeal court judges, eight high court judges, dozens more serving and retired judges, a former president of the supreme court, current and former ministers in the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and numerous senior solicitors.
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Separately from the open letter, Karon Monaghan KC, a barrister specialising in equality and human rights law, has written in a comment piece for the Guardian that “judges being members sends a message, including to female lawyers and judges, that powerful places are manly places”.
She said she believed judges who were members of the club should not be presiding over cases where sex or gender was a focal point in the case – for example, in discrimination cases or sexual and domestic violence cases.
“If they cannot trust women to sit with them in the clubby corridors of power, we cannot trust them to do the right thing by women. Advocates must now seriously consider whether in some cases it might be appropriate to ask a judge whether he is a member of the Garrick and, if so, to ask that he recuse himself so that justice can be seen to be done,” she wrote.
The amazing thing is that feminists will even claim trannies should be banned from their clubs, while still claiming men’s clubs should not exist at all.
The place has been attacked for years, including by feminists who say women-only clubs are perfectly fine
