WOMAN’S DISTINCTION

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1930, Page 9

WOMAN’S DISTINCTION

PRIVY COUNCIL’S CASE WON. “It has been a wonderful experience which I shall never forget. I consider it a great honour and privilege to have been allowed to appear.” With a smile of delight at her success, Mrs. Elizabeth Bethune Campbell—the first woman ever to appear in person before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council —made this remark last month after judgment had been given in her favour. She had just won her appeal in a case concerning the accounts of the estate of her mother, Lady Howland. Mrs. Campbell, the wife of a clergyman in the United States, has been working on the ease in London since, last summer. After her long speech before the Judicial Committee last term she was complimented by the judges upon the way she had conducted her appeal. “I am very pleased with the result,” Mrs. Campbell said. “I should like to say I have been treated with the greatest consideration and kindness by everybody. I came to London in July last year and have been working very hard in connection with the case up to the end of the hearing. I did not have anybody to help me.” Mrs. Campbell said she had had no legal training whatever. "At first -when I appeared before their lordships I felt’ very nervous,” she said. "It was not' an easy thing to do.”