Legal profession’s most powerful among members of London’s men-only Garrick Club

Exclusive: Roll-call of gentlemen’s club, which bars women, includes judges, barristers and ministers

• Garrick Club’s members list reveals roll-call of British establishment
• ‘It isn’t acceptable’: Garrick Club remains a bastion of male elitism

Some of Britain’s most powerful judges, including a serving member of the supreme court, along with about 150 leading barristers, are members of the Garrick Club, which has repeatedly blocked attempts to allow women to join.

The roll-call of the legal profession also includes five appeal court judges, eight high court judges, dozens of serving and retired judges, current and former ministers in the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and numerous senior solicitors.