A MODERN PORTIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 7 April 1926, Page 2

A MODERN PORTIA

Miss Charlotte Mary Young, a barrister. made legal history when she eonducted a breach of promise ease before Mr Justice McCardie at the London I.aw Courts. This was the first, time a. woman barrister had conducted such a ease. Men barristers (locked into the court ti hear Miss Young, and packed rows of people listened to her opening words with rapt attention. The interest which .she excited did.not perturb Miss Young in the least. She presented her client's ease in a dear, giilish voice. Her wig accentuated the unexpected youthful I !:,ess of her face. She wore the ordinary barrister's gown and snow-white collar. Her legal opponent. Mi'iS. Lincoln, towered above her when she rose to eross-exatnine, but she gazed bemngidy and calmly at him as lie thundered out hi* questions. Her appearance is that nf a girl in the early t v. ent ie*;.

Witnesses called the woman barrister "miss." and Mr .Justice McCardie. when be failed to hear an answer, ns'ked, "What did she say. Miss Young?'’ Miss Young's method of cross-exami-nation was no less severe than her opponent's. She made vigorous use of the plirn.se. "| put it to- von. and looked wondcrit.gJy round the court when a witness hesitated in answering.