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How about being a bit devilish and simply giving the job to the most appropriately qualified person, based on merit rather than anything else?

If the best candidate happens to be female/BME/LGBT as opposed to the average 'straight white male' then that is of course excellent news for diversity. But if the straight white male option is of sounder judgement and would bring more to the role, they must be the obvious choice, surely?

What we need is to get to the point where the best candidates are not predominately of one gender or colour. By the time it gets to appointing senior judges, the discrimination argument will hopefully be defunct. Hopefully.

Until then, suggest quotas. And make it a box-ticking exercise rather than attempting to provide the greatest quality of justice in the world.