WOMAN BARRISTER
YOUTH'S COURT ('HOICK. LONDON. June 21. A youth <>l 17. charged at Maidstone Assizes yesterday with an offence "-■ainst a young girl. said: "May 1 have •- lady barrister?" Mr. Justice Charles: Have you the i pessary money? Tim Youth: Yes. , 'rhe Jud.ro: I understand there tiro*
two lady barristers here. I think it would bo better if they stood up. ami you can see which you like lite look of best. Will th ' two k dy barristers on hire please stand? Two women barristers stood up. and the prisoner, pointing to Miss Dorothy Knight Dix, said. “I will have that one." Miss Dix made an eloquent appeal on behalf of the youth, who was bound over for 12 months. Mr. Justice Charles told him: "You
havo done a very wrong thing, hut one of the wisest things you did was to hire the lady barrister, who put your case very carefully before me."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1935, Page 2
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