Since the end of 2017, when the corruption of Weinstein's Hollywood was uncovered, finally bringing the conversation of gender
equality and diversity into the mainstream, Girls on Tops has struck a chord with people wanting to interact with and support the changing landscape within the film industry.
Not exact matches
Well - defined recruitment procedures are in place to encourage a diverse pool of talent at the organisation, while the principles of
equality and diversity are also woven
into its learning programmes.
When a first year student's opportunity to learn about
equality is reduced to a one - time course, it is not too surprising that values like
diversity and equality do not necessarily get transferred from law schools
into legal practice.
More disturbing still is the fact that the promotion of
equality,
diversity,
and inclusion is a requirement that goes beyond the workplace (colleagues, employees,
and clients)
and extends
into the lawyer's public life.
A scapegoat in the sense that everything centres on you're either for or against
equality and diversity when in many cases the debates are really about other underlying issues — either issues that the debaters are blind to or so caught up in the heat of opposing each other that they can't see the forest for the trees
and one thing leads to another
and descend
into incivility.
«The Working Group recommends that in order to ensure that licensees infuse the principles of
equality,
diversity and inclusion
INTO THEIR EVERYDAY PRACTICE, the Rules of Professional Conduct, the Paralegal Rules of Conduct
and / or the Commentaries be reviewed to determine how this objective can be advanced» [emphasis added].
The language of «principles» as opposed to «policy» or «practice» clearly suggests belief rather than conduct,
and the upcoming educational (CPD) requirements, on
equality,
diversity and «inclusion» (the latter being a term that is undefined in the case law but which has variously been defined by the Working Group (in the report) as «making a better space for everyone»
and (on the definitions website) with reference to RBC's corporate policy — which we can celebrate as the first time that a corporation's principles have been incorporated by reference
into legal requirements!
In the wake of a storm of critical comments after the publication of Lord Ouseley's recent report
into how black
and minority ethnic (BME) solicitors are treated by the profession's regulatory arm, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) board is meeting this week to agree a new
equality and diversity strategy.