Women and the Law
LAST word as to the position of women in the profession. There have for many years been women practising with success as solicitors in New Zealand. There is no reason why there should not be more, and why girls should not have successful careers as solicitors awaiting them. Some girls too have qualified as solicitors and have then used their
qualifications to obtain highly paid jobs outside the law as secretaries. But to those going in for law as a career, I would say that it offers some prospects itself. While there are several successful women solicitors practising, 1 know of no outstanding woman barrister in\ New Zealand as yet. Women appearing as solicitors in the Magistrate’s Court are not now @ rare enouch sicht to cause anv
comment; but I have not yet met with a legal argument in the Supreme Court from a woman. There is in my view no reason why this should be so. While I think prejudice may for very many years prevent a woman barrister from taking (say) jury actions in New Zealand, yet I can see no reason why legal argument before a Judge should not be wholly prepared and presented by a woman barrister, and I have no doubt that it will happen before my years are out. I notice already the names of women barristers in the English law reports; but then — it’s heresy to say it isn’t it?-England is often so far ahead of us in some of these respects.-(" The Law as a Career," A, K. Turner, 1Y A, August 21.) a
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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266Women and the Law New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 119, 3 October 1941, Page 5
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