WOMEN K.C.’S

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25797, 7 May 1949, Page 9

WOMEN K.C.’S

Si r —Your photograph of English women K.C.’s interests me, but to ctate they are the first women to be aopointed K.C.’s is inaccurate. They may be the first Englishwomen, but the first in Britain. That honour belongs to a Scotswoman, Miss Margaret Kidd, who is also Scotland’s Irst woman advocate. She “took silk” Jarlier this year. Miss Kidd was called to the Scottish Bar in 1923, shortly after Parliament passed an act permitting women to quality and practise in law. I was interested personally in Miss K rid. as her father, a Lin- , Mhgow solicitor, was a friend of my Hate father <a Glasgow lawyer) and I toyself at 21 passed my final law examination in 1928. Miss Kidd is now the wife of an Edinburgh advocate, y- MacDonald. Many people here do not know that Scotland has its own Segal system, a more equitable one in jnanv aspects than the English one.— Yours, etc.. (MRS) HEL.EN MACKINNON. May 6. 1949.