{"id":124,"date":"2004-09-13T18:58:47","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T18:58:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-09-13T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T18:58:47","slug":"first-black-high-court-judge-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"First black high court judge appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>3rd September<\/strong> <br \/>The Lord Chancellor has appointed the first High Court judge from a minority ethnic background. <br \/>Linda Dobbs, QC former chairman of the Criminal Bar Association will take up her post next month. <br \/>There are currently only 9 black judges among the 623 circuit judges in England and Wales (1.4 per cent). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3rd September The Lord Chancellor has appointed the first High Court judge from a minority ethnic background. Linda Dobbs, QC former chairman of the Criminal Bar Association will take up her post next month. There are currently only 9 black judges among the 623 circuit judges in England and Wales (1.4 per cent).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}