On 28 March 1919 the Law Society Council responded to the certainty of legislation requiring the bar to be lifted on women entering the legal professions with a Special Meeting to consider a motion that ended the Society’s previous opposition. … Read more
In 1995, Lesley MacDonagh was appointed as the managing partner of Lovell White Durrant (now Hogan Lovells), the first time that a woman had been chosen to lead a top 10 law firm in England & Wales.
‘Over the years, the Association has been involved in every major consultation and advance in equality and diversity which has benefited not only women barristers but also men at the Bar’. Frances Burton
Patricia Scotland was the first Black woman appointed QC and first woman Attorney-General.
Mary Robinson was the first woman President of Ireland.
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss was the first woman appointed to the Court of Appeal.
Claire Palley was the first women law professor in the UK.
Elizabeth Lane was the first woman appointed to the High Court.
The Life Peerages Act 1958 allowed women to sit in the House of Lords.
Frances Moran was the first woman law professor in Ireland.