District Judge Jamal Jeffers
Pro-Chancellor
Jamal Jeffers is a District Judge sitting in the Family and County Court at Leicester.
Jamal was born and raised in Tottenham, North London. At 14 he moved with his family to Barbados and returned to the UK in 2007 for university. Completing his LLB at De Montfort University in 2010 and undertaking the Bar Professional Training Course at Nottingham Law School, Jamal was called to the Bar in 2012 by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.
Jamal secured a pupillage at a set of chambers in Cambridgeshire in 2015. Prior to starting pupillage, Jamal worked at the Community Legal Advice Centre and the Citizens Advice Bureau in Leicester, providing advice and assistance to members of the community on a range of legal queries. The support offered was entirely free of charge to the public and was an invaluable service. Jamal left that post to work as a County Court Advocate dealing with civil matters such as mortgage possessions, low level road traffic accidents and bankruptcy petitions.
Prior to becoming a full time Judge, Jamal was a Specialist Family Law barrister, specialising in children matters. Jamal was recognised in the Legal 500 for 4 consecutive years as a Leading Junior for Family Law (Children). In 2022 Jamal was recognised as the Equality and Diversity Champion for Nottinghamshire Law Society and was shortlisted in the LexisNexis Family Law Awards as Junior Barrister of the Year, he also received a special recognition award from Birmingham Black Lawyers in 2023.
Jamal is passionate about improving access to the legal profession and seeing underrepresented groups thrive in the legal profession, he sat on the Midland Circuit Social Mobility Committee, and is a founding member of Black Minority Ethnics (BME) @ The Bar.
Jamal is a co-founder of an award for 2nd year students at the University of Leicester called the Jeffers-Nunn Award and in 2020 he created the Bar Futures Programme at De Montfort University. The Award and the programme are designed to mentor and motivate students who would not otherwise consider the profession as being accessible to them.