Margaret Kidd
Margaret Kidd was the first woman called to the Faculty of Advocates.
The Foundation of the Association of Women Solicitors
‘The history of the AWS should serve as an inspiration and a warning. Impressively a small cohort of women solicitors… had succeeded in founding an organisation to support each other, had maintained it through economic recessions and war… But its subsequent gradual demise demonstrates how an organisation can all but disappear through a laudable desire for expansion coupled with an unrealistic reliance on income which was not self-generated.’
Elizabeth Cruickshank
Matrimonial Causes Act 1923
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 equalised the grounds for divorce for men and women.
Carrie Morrison
Carrie Morrison was the first woman admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Averil Deverell
Averil Deverell was the first woman barrister to practise in Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales.
The Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, 1920
The Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties recognised that women could be sworn in as constables in the police forces of England, Wales, and Scotland.
Madge Easton Anderson
Madge Easton Anderson was the first woman to be admitted to the legal profession in the United Kingdom.
Article 7 of the Covenant of the League of Nations 1919
As a direct result of women’s lobbying at the 1919 Peace Conference, Article 7 of the Covenant of the League of Nations stated that its Secretariat – an international civil service – would be open to both women and men.
Helena Normanton
Helena Normanton was the first woman admitted to an Inn of Court.
Appointment of the First Women Justices of the Peace, 1919
After centuries of all-male law courts, the introduction of women JPs was not simply a legal landmark but a revolution. Today just over half of all JPs are women.