Equal Opportunities

Part of 2. Questions to the Counsel General and Minister for the Constitution – in the Senedd at 3:08 pm on 9 November 2022.

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Photo of Joyce Watson Joyce Watson Labour 3:08, 9 November 2022

Thank you for that answer, Counsel General. I don't know whether you've had time or opportunity to read and reflect on the new report by Manchester university on racial bias in the judiciary. It found discrimination to be directed particularly towards black court users, from lawyers to witnesses to dependents, and backs up the finding of the 2017 Lammy report. Institutional racism is a very serious charge, but it does seem to fit the bill here. So, can you tell us what Wales is doing and what more we must do to overturn this endemic judicial prejudice?