Barrister and Solicitors: The Suggested Fusion: The Law Society, at a special meeting in London yesterday, discussed the question of fusion between barristers and solicitors. The question was also raised of the attitude of the Council of the Society to the Bill to be laid before Parliament providing for the admission of women into the legal profession. The President, Mr. Pinsent, said there was a marked divergence of opinion on the admission women, and he would not say what the attitude of the Council would be or that the major in the Council favoured it. After considerable debate and the defeat of amendments, it was carried by 95 votes to 25 “That was in the public interest to fuse the two branches of the profession.” A poll of the whole of the members was demanded and agreed to. The meeting was adjourned for four weeks for a Poll to be taken.
[See similar Sheffield Daily Telegraph: Saturday 1st February 1919]
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948