• Penelope Warne

    Penelope Warne is a distinguished British lawyer renowned for her trailblazing career in the legal profession. She began her legal journey at Slaughter & May, where she trained and [...]

  • Lois Hancock

    Lois Hancock, formerly Lois Shawyer, died on the 5th April 2009 at the age of 102. She was a tribute to the legal profession, the first woman solicitor in South [...]

  • Edith Hesling

    My great-grandmother’s life was a series of firsts for the female legal profession. Beginning her career as the first woman called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn, being the first [...]

  • Harriet Wistrich

    Harriet Wistrich is an English solicitor who works at Birnberg Pierce & Partners. She is also the co-founder of Justice for Women, a feminist organisation which advocates for women [...]

  • Khatun Sapnara

    Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara is a Circuit Judge who presides over both family and criminal cases. Her appointment in 2006 as a Recorder of the Crown Court saw [...]

  • Dame Nicola Davies

    Dame Nicola Davies was the first Welsh female Court of Appeal Judge when she was appointed in October 2018. In 1992, Nicola became the first female Welsh QC, having [...]

  • Baroness Patricia Scotland

    Baroness Patricia Scotland of Asthal PC KC, is a lawyer and Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations. Baroness Scotland was the first black woman appointed QC in 1991. [...]

  • Rose Heilbron

    An exclusive interview with Hilary Heilbron QC discussing her mother, Dame Rose Heilbron, who was the first of two female QCs, the first female Recorder, and the first woman [...]

  • Baroness Butler-Sloss

    Baroness Butler-Sloss was the first woman to sit on the Court of Appeal and thus the first female Lord Justice of Appeal. She was the highest-ranking female judge in the [...]

  • Master Victoria McCloud

    Victoria McCloud is a British judge. She is the most senior public figure to have transitioned from male to female. In 2010 she became a Queen's Bench Master, the [...]

  • Sarah Leigh

    Sarah Leigh, a pioneering clinical negligence lawyer, co-founded Leigh Day in 1987. She was also awarded an OBE for her contribution to the Woolf Inquiry into access to justice [...]

  • Dame Janet Gaymer

    An interview with Dame Janet Gaymer, DBE, QC, who most recently served as a Civil Service Commissioner and Commissioner for Public Appointments from 2006 to 2010. She was previously [...]

  • Sarah Falk

    Sarah Falk was the first woman to be appointed to the High Court straight from private practice, and one of only three solicitors to do so. She was previously [...]

  • Major General Susan Ridge

    Major General Susan Ridge, CB is a senior British Army officer and lawyer. From September 2015 until July 2019, she was Director General of the Army Legal Services Branch [...]

  • Baroness Chakrabarti

    Baroness Chakrabarti was the Director of Liberty from 2003 to 2016. In August 2016, Chakrabarti was made a life peer and was appointed Shadow Attorney General for England and [...]