The President reads the Barristers and Solicitors (qualification of women) Bill and the 1999 Women Lawyer Forum ‘Mainstreaming: dismantling the barriers’

The Law Society's Gazette, April 1919

Special General Meeting held (as a matter of urgency) on the 28th March 1919The President read the Barristers and Solicitors (qualification of women) Bill and referred to the change resulting from the relationship of women and men in the economic work of the country. Mr Samuel Garrett moved: ‘That in view of the present economic and political position of women, it is in the opinion of this meeting expedient that the existing obstacles to their entry into the legal profession should be removed; and the Council is requested to report this opinion to the Lord Chancellor.’ Sir Walter Trower seconded the resolution. The resolution was carried by 50 votes to 33.

The Law Society’s Gazette, 28 April 1999

Women at workThe 1999 Women Lawyer Forum ‘Mainstreaming: dismantling the barriers’, will be held on 15 May. The conference will consider the globalisation of women’s rights – in a session chaired by Cherie Booth QC. The forum is a step towards a world in which it is assumed that the next Lord Chancellor will actually be a Lady and where law ladies as well as law lords are on television giving judgment in an internationally important case. Will this be the legal profession in about 10 years' time?