WOMEN AS SOLICITORS.
In the House of Lords on February 17 LcTd Buckmaster, introduced a Bill to allow women to practise as solicitors in the United Kingdom. An eloquent speech was closed with the fervid prophecy that., however long it was delayed, the day would ultimately come when "a. woman will Stand at the Bar of your lordships' House and plead her client's case before (the highest tribunal in' the land." The Lord Chancellor announced that the Government did not propose to make this Bill a party question. Speaking personally, His Lordship ranged himself among 1 the opponents of the measure. He characterised it as "a step in the wrong direction." Lord Halsbury, an ex-Lord Chancellor } was another opponent. "From my Knowledge of the solicitor's profession I do not think it. is fit for a woman," he declared. Lord Summer and Lord Selborne supported the Bill, and finally Lord Loreburn, the third exLord Chancellor to speak, gave it' his benison. "I have not heard a single argomenit why women should not be admitted solicitors^' was his comment on the discussion. The second reading was agreed to without a division. 1
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18357, 2 June 1917, Page 2
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