Elizabeth Cruickshank

  • Agnes Twiston Hughes
    Feature

    Agnes Twiston Hughes: like father, like daughter

    2023-05-17T13:39:00

    The first Welshwoman to qualify as a solicitor was closely influenced by her father’s beliefs and ambitions.

  • Carrie Morrison
    Feature

    Carrie Morrison – an unlikely solicitor

    9 December 2022

    In December 1922, 100 years ago to the month, Carrie Morrison became the first woman to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales. In 1928 she became the first woman to address a Law Society provincial meeting and the first woman to take a divorce case under the Poor ...