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If we want to talk about minority ethnicities the we should talk about minority ethnicities (and use an acronym such as "ME"), rather than padding the phrase out to "Black, Asian and [other] Minority Ethnicities". There is no good reason why Blacks and Asian are more worthy of particular mention than other minority ethnicities (such as Ainu, Jews and Celts). Terms such as "BME" and "BAME" are offensive, and it is high time those who use them face up to this form of discrimination and stop it.

Perhaps those at the Gazette's roundtable were all either Black or Asian and are not aware of how offensive their behaviour is to other minorities they claim to represent.

It is interesting that in this article it is stated that "BAME" refers to "black, Asian, and minority ethnic", whilst in the article entitled "Privately educated dominate senior ranks at top law firms" published on the Law Society Gazette website on 17 May 2016 it states that "BAME" refers to "Black and minority ethnic. The latter definition suggests that "Black" is worthy of specific mention, but Asian is not worthy of specific mention.

The phrase "Black, Asian and minority ethnic lawyers" does not even make sense. Anyone who has any skill at legal drafting will recognise that this phraseology implies that Black lawyers and Asian lawyers are not minority ethnic lawyers.