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04 June 2009
Success for Aiming Higher Community Mentoring Scheme
How to create a more diverse pool of judges? One mentoring scheme is starting in colleges
Marieta Manova has an unusual ambition for a 17-year-old: she wants to be a judge. You can see why an intelligent teenager with a passion for human rights or a taste for verbal combat might want to be a solicitor or barrister. But judges are surely more remote and forbidding figures to the young, if not simply because of their age.
Marieta has no doubts. "When I was a child in Bulgaria, a family friend was a lawyer who wanted to be a judge," she says. "I remember the celebration when she was finally appointed. Ever since then, that has been my ambition too."
She is one of nine students at Waltham Forest College in east London taking part in a mentoring and buddying programme set up by a prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service.
For the full article, go to The Guardian.co.uk
Marieta has no doubts. "When I was a child in Bulgaria, a family friend was a lawyer who wanted to be a judge," she says. "I remember the celebration when she was finally appointed. Ever since then, that has been my ambition too."
She is one of nine students at Waltham Forest College in east London taking part in a mentoring and buddying programme set up by a prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service.
For the full article, go to The Guardian.co.uk
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