"Freemason 'closed shop' blocked me, says barrister Aug 20 2003
Martin Shipton, The Western Mail
A BARRISTER claims his application to become a judge has been turned down because he is not a freemason.
Roger Everest says he was told 30 years ago that he would never get on in the legal profession after turning down an invitation to join the Dinas
Llandaff lodge of the Freemasons in Cardiff.
Last week the 64-year-old was informed by the director of judicial appointments at the Department for Constitutional Affairs that he was not being
appointed a circuit judge.
Earlier this year Mr Everest, who practises from chambers at Pontyclun near Cardiff, had a claim that his career had been blighted by his
non-membership of the freemasons rejected by the European Court of Human Rights.
Yesterday he said, "The judiciary in South Wales is a closed shop which I believe excludes ethnic minorities, women and men who are not part of a
masonic network."
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