Important work from the Commission includes the Children’s Act 1989, the Family Law Act 1996, and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. She was also the youngest person to ever be appointed to the Law Commission.

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Lady Hale: The only woman lawyer on the Supreme Court

Lady Hale becomes first woman to be appointed at the Law Commission

Lady Hale is the first woman to join the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

Lady Hale appointed deputy president of the UK’s Supreme Court

Lady Hale is appointed first woman President of UK Supreme Court

Baroness Hale was appointed the first woman Justice of the Supreme Court