LADY BARRISTER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 116, 19 May 1933, Page 8

LADY BARRISTER

SUPREME COURT CASE. WELLINGTON, May 18. Wigged and gowned, and wearing the starched white collar as worn by the male members of tho profession, a lady barrister, Miss Julia M. Dunn, appeared with Mr. H. H. Cornish in a Supreme Court case to-day. Miss Dunn, who ba? 'the degree of Master of Laws, is a daughter of Mr. Alexander Dunn, of Wellington, in whose office she has been employed as a law clerk for some years past, doing work commonly performed by men. She was admitted a barrister and solicitor of rhe Supreme Court last year, and the high degree of Master of Laws was conferred upon her at the Victoria College graduation ceremony recently. It was particularly fitting that Miss Dunn should be associated on her first appearance in a case in th? Supreme Court with MJ. Cornish, under whose tuition she. has been at Victoria College. where Air. Cornish, or Professor Cornish as he is known to the students, occupies the Chair of English and New Zealand law. Another interesting feature was that Ihc ease, having to do with the. beauty specialists’ profession, was a singularly appropriate one for