WOMEN AND THE BAR

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 1, 1 July 1922, Page 16

WOMEN AND THE BAR

NEARING THE GOAL.

Seeing that the Bar examination lists for Easter reveal that two more ■women students have passed the final examination test, and now only remain to complete their term* by dining in hall the prescribed number of times before they are eligible for "call" to the' Bar) the moment may be seized for concisely stating how far women have advanced in their progress to the Bar, says the London Daily Telegraph. One lady, Dr. Ivy Williams, has not only passed her final, bnt kept the full number of terms, and is expected to be "called" at Inner Temple oh 10th May, which is "call" day at each of the four Inns of Court. Should that interesting event happen, she will be the first lady barrister in England. Eight other women have passeH the final examination, but' have still to keep a smaller or greater number of terms before they are eligible for "call." It is interesting to mention that a tenth' lady has just reached England from India in order to qualify for "call." She is. Miss Cornelia Sorabji, a lady whose great legal gifts have been officially lecognised in India by her' appointment as legal adviser and consulting counsel in several Conrt3, and : whose activities are mainly exertfd, on behalf of purdah (veiled or .secluded), women. This lady became, a Bachelor'of Civil Law at Oxford so long ago as 1893. : She is now in process of being entered at .Lincoln's Inn with a view to passing the prescribed examinations and ■ keeping the requisite terms, which in her case, under special privilege, will extend over one year only. . .