Tag: Diversity

The Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) publishes an external review on neuroinclusive judicial recruitment. Independent research provided 17 recommendations to enhance JAC selection processes, supporting neurodivergent candidates.

Tribunal judge Samina Majid was appointed as a fee-paid judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber, in 2019.

I was born and raised in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. I was the eldest daughter of the well-respected village butcher, who pushed me to go to grammar school and from the age of 13 years old, I developed a very definite aspiration to become a solicitor.

I attended my local comprehensive and read English at university before converting to law. I qualified as a barrister but spent most of my career as a solicitor. For 20 years I worked in global law firms specialising in complex cross-border finance transactions.

Anyone who met me as a child would not have thought I would have become a judge, let alone a judicial lead with the title of President.

I spent the first 12 years of my career in private practice in Camden Town, becoming a partner soon after qualification and building up one of the largest specialist housing teams at the time. 

My own background is rooted in social housing. I was born and raised in a multicultural, working-class, urban environment, with the additional life experience of having been homeless myself.

I am a solicitor by profession. I qualified in 2009 and specialise in private family matters such as divorce/separation, financial matters on divorce/separation, private law children matters etc.

The Judicial Diversity Forum (JDF), chaired by the JAC, has today published the annual Diversity of the judiciary: 2025 Statistics.