Women and the Legal Profession: Views of Law Society Members: Solicitors discussed the admission of women to the legal profession, yesterday, at a special urgent meeting of the Law Society, to consider the provisions of Lord Buckmaster’s Barristers and Solicitors (Qualification of Women) Bill. Mr. R. A. Pinsent presided. Mr. Samuel Garrett (ex-president of the Law Society) moved that in view of the present economic and political position of women, it was expedient that the existing obstacles to their entry into the legal profession should be removed. It was, he said, unthinkable that, after all that they had done in the war, women should be prevented from transferring to a civil occupation the energies shown during the war. Lord Buckmaster’s Bill was as certain to pass as anything was certain in politics. Sir Walter Trower, seconding the resolution, said that was a matter of equality of opportunity. If women proved themselves to be as good at business, or better, than men, they would succeed. …
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948