High Court judge Jonathan Sumption has given his views to the Evening Standard on how fast the legal profession can or should move towards greater gender balance.  In his view it will take a long time (perhaps 50 years, see below), and cannot be rushed without great damage to  the system.  I'm only going by the ES piece, which is risky.  But assuming that the interview is a fair representation of Mr Sumption's views, I think it raises some very interesting questions. First, and most important, is the general issue of how far working practices - in this case, amongst the judiciary - are somehow fixed because of the nature…