Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland

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Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the history of women and law in the UK and Ireland

Edited by Erika Rackley · Rosemary Auchmuty
Hart Publishing July 2019

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9781509935666
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Hart Publishing
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July 2019
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Women's Legal Landmarks commemorates the centenary of women's admission in 1919 to the legal profession in the UK and Ireland by identifying key legal landmarks in women's legal history. Over 80 authors write about landmarks that represent a significant achievement or turning point in women's engagement with law and law reform. The landmarks cover a wide range of topics, including matrimonial property, the right to vote, prostitution, surrogacy and assisted reproduction, rape, domestic violence, FGM, equal pay, abortion, image-based sexual abuse, and the ordination of women bishops, as well as the life stories of women who were the first to undertake key legal roles and positions. Together the landmarks offer a scholarly intervention in the recovery of women's lost history and in the development of methodology of feminist legal history as well as a demonstration of women's agency and activism in the achievement of law reform and justice.

Table of Contents

1. Women's Legal Landmarks: An Introduction Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty
THE LANDMARKS
2. Cyfraith Hywel (The Laws of Hywel Dda), c.
940 Carol Howells
3. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft , 1792 Anna Jobe
4. Gaols Act 1823 Ruth Lamont
5. The Slave, Grace (1827) Rosemary Auchmuty
6. A Brief Summary of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1854 Joanne Conaghan
7. Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 Penelope Russell
8. Married Women's Property Act 1882 Andy Hayward
9. First Woman Prospective Parliamentary Candidate, Helen Taylor, 1885 Janet Smith
10.
Section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 Lois Bibbings
11. Match Women's Strike, 1888 Jacqueline Lane
12. R v Jackson (1891) Teresa Sutton
13. A Pageant of Great Women, Cicely Hamilton, 1909-12 Katharine Cockin
14. Representation of the People Act 1918 Mari Takayanagi
15. Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918 Hazel Biggs
16. Article 7 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 1919 Aoife O'Donoghue
17. Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 Mari Takayanagi
18. First Women Justices of the Peace, 1919 Anne Logan
19. First Woman to be Admitted to an Inn of Court, Helena Normanton, 1919 Judith Bourne
20. Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, 1920 Colin R Moore
21. First Woman Law Agent, Madge Easton Anderson, 1920 Alison Lindsay
22. Foundation of the Association of Women Solicitors, 1921 Elizabeth Cruickshank
23. First Woman to Practise as a Barrister in Ireland and the (then) United Kingdom, Averil Deverell, 1921 Liz Goldthorpe
24. First Woman Solicitor in England and Wales, Carrie Morrison, 1922 Elizabeth Cruickshank
25. Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 Penelope Russell
26. First Woman Member of the Faculty of Advocates, Margaret Kidd, 1923 Catriona Cairns
27. First Woman Professor of Law in Ireland, Frances Moran, 1925 Emma Hutchinson
28. DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill (1928) Caroline Derry
29. Edwards v Attorney General of Canada (1929) Sarah Mercer
30. Education Act 1944 Harriet Samuels
31. Family Allowances Act 1945 Lucy Vickers
32. British Nationality Act 1948 Helen Kay and Rose Pipes
33. Married Women (Restraint Upon Anticipation) Act 1949 Rosemary Auchmuty
34. Life Peerages Act 1958 Supuni Perera
35. First Woman to Hold Regular Judicial Office in England and Wales, Rose Heilbron, 1964 Laura Lammasniemi
36. Married Women's Property Act 1964 Sharon Thompson
37. First Woman High Court Judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Lane, 1965 Judith Bourne and Frances Burton
38. Abortion Act 1967 Nicky Priaulx and Natalie L Jones
39. National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967 Leonora Onaran
40. Dagenham Car Plant Strike, 1968 Dawn Watkins
41. First Woman Professor of Law in the UK, Claire Palley, 1970 Fiona Cownie
42. First Women's Refuge, 1971 Felicity Kaganas
43.
Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 Anne Logan
44. Sex Discrimination Act 1975 Anne Morris
45. First Rape Crisis Centre, 1976 Alison Diduck
46.
Section 4 of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976 Clare McGlynn and Julia Downes
47. Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 Laura Binger and Helen Carr
48. Davis v Johnson (1978) Susan Edwards
49. Health (Family Planning) Act 1979 Mairead Enright
50. Williams & Glyn's Bank v Boland (1980) Rosemary Auchmuty
51. Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, 1981-2000 Elizabeth Woodcraft
52. Gill and Coote v El Vino Co Ltd (1982) Anne Morris
53. Women and the Law, Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett, 1984 Brenda Hale and Susan Atkins
54. Warnock Report, 1984 Kirsty Horsey
55. Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 Phyllis Livaha
56. Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority (1985) Emma Nottingham
57. Grant v Edwards (1986) Joanne Beswick
58.
Section 32 of the Finance Act 1998 Ann Mumford
59. First Woman Court of Appeal Judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 1988 Dana Denis-Smith
60.
Section 5 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (Amendment) Act 1990 Susan Leahy
61. First Woman President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, 1990 Leah Treanor
62. Foundation of the Association of Women Barristers, 1991 Frances Burton
63. R v Ahluwalia (1993) Siobhan Weare
64. Feminist Legal Studies Journal, 1993 Rosemary Hunter
65. Barclays Bank v O'Brien (1993) Sarah Greer
66. Webb v EMO Air Cargo (UK) Ltd (No 2) (1994) Debra Morris
67. First Woman to Lead a Top 10 Law Firm in England and Wales, Lesley MacDonagh, 1995 Steven Vaughan
68. Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1995 Laura Cahillane
69. St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S (1998) Kay Lalor, Anne Morris and Annapurna Waughray
70.
Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 Sonia Kalsi
71. Islam v Secretary of State for the Home Department, R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Another, ex parte Shah (1999) Nora Honkala
72. White v White (2000) Jonathan Herring
73. Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002 Susan Atkins
74.
Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 Nikki Godden-Rasul
75. National Assembly for Wales Election, 2003 Catrin Fflur Huws
76. Mental Capacity Act 2005 Rosie Harding
77. UK Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (OP-CEDAW), 2005 Meghan Campbell
78. Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 Pragna Patel
79. First Woman Attorney General for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Patricia Scotland, 2007 Linda Mulcahy
80.
Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 F Vera-Gray
81. Radmacher v Granatino (2010) Marie Parker
82. Concluding Observations of the UN Committee against Torture, Recommendation to Ireland Regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011 Maeve O'Rourke
83. Birmingham City Council v Abdulla (2012) Harini Iyengar
84. Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012 Ivana Bacik
85. Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013 Fiona de Londras
86. R v Nimmo and Sorley (2014) Kim Barker
87. Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014 and Canon C2 `Of the Consecration of Bishops', 2014 Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
88. In the Matter of an Application for Judicial Review by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2015) Marie Fox and Sheelagh McGuinness
89. Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 Olga Jurasz
90.
Section 2 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 Erika Rackley
91. First Woman President of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, 2017 Erika Rackley
92. Thirty-sixth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, 2018 Fiona de Londras
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