All Centenary articles
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FeatureTributes to Elizabeth Cruickshank
Current and former Law Society presidents lead tributes to Elizabeth Cruickshank, whose death was announced this week.
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FeatureAgnes Twiston Hughes: like father, like daughter
The first Welshwoman to qualify as a solicitor was closely influenced by her father’s beliefs and ambitions.
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FeatureCarrie Morrison – an unlikely solicitor
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 ...
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FeatureRemembering the men who enabled women
Although it was men who were in control of the discriminatory method of admittance to the professions, it was also men who challenged and pushed the establishment to finally admit women.
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FeatureInvestigating strip-searches in Armagh Gaol
Elizabeth Woodcraft on visiting the women’s prison in Northern Ireland as part of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the use of strip-searching.
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FeatureThe other 1919 act
While the Sex Discrimination (Removal) Act 1919 has garnered the most attention in recent years, it was the Industrial Courts Act 1919 at the cutting edge of judicial diversity.
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FeatureRose Heilbron: willing role model and trailblazer
This year marks the 50th anniversary of Heilbron's appointment as the first woman judge at the Old Bailey.
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FeatureHer master's voice
Arriving as students in 1980s Cambridge was ‘daunting’, but now two former solicitors use skills gained in law to lead two of the university’s oldest colleges. Eduardo Reyes talks to Pippa Rogerson and Loretta Minghella
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FeatureCentenary of the Six-Point Group
This year marks the centenary of the formation of the Six-Point Group, a feminist organisation dedicated to campaigning for equal rights for women through legal reform.
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FeatureOlive Clapham – ‘first woman barrister’
On 25 May 1921, The Times published the bar final examination results. For the first time, the list of successful candidates included a woman: Olive Catherine Clapham. The newspaper marked this milestone with a short article highlighting her achievement, headlined ‘The First Woman Barrister’. Dr Caroline Derry ...
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FeatureEnid Rosser: ‘Unduly egotistical’
The first woman barrister to be instructed (as a pupil) in a murder trial.
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FeatureA promise of equality yet to be met
The equality pledge of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 remains unfulfilled.
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FeatureA woman ahead of her time
Feminist pioneer Gladys Mary Chatterjee paved the way for 'outsiders'.
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FeatureHow Beatrice beat the protectionists
Solicitor pioneer who transferred from the bar in the face of protectionism.
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FeaturePast in the present
Three decades separate the onset of Alexandra Marks’ and Charlotte Parkinson’s legal careers. What could they possibly have to say to each other? Quite a lot, we discover.
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FeatureFollowing the footsteps of the first
106 years after the courts told would-be lawyer Gwyneth Bebb she was not a ‘person’, Catherine Baksi takes a walk with her granddaughter
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FeatureSucceeding in the City in the 1970s
When Dorothy Livingstone started as a trainee at Herbert Smith, it was a male-dominated environment. But society was changing.
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FeatureThe indomitable: 100 years of women magistrates
In December 1919 seven women were appointed to the magistracy, a hitherto wholly male domain.
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Feature‘A great many she bears’
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 turns 100 on 23 December. Eduardo Reyes looks back on a century of shifting attitudes, both in the press and the Council chamber