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Mar 8, 2024 · We’ve created a list of the most inspiring and decorated ladies in the law, from the early 20th century through to today. Lady Hale
Mar 8, 2018 · Penelope Warne, the first Senior Partner at CMS, started off her legal career as the only female trainee in her intake. Her influence as a partner within CMS has helped to expand the firm as far afield as Brazil, Mexico and Dubai, as well as managing the growth and consolidation of CMS in Scotland.
- Women’s Legal Personhood
- Public and Private Realms
- Rights and Equality
- Women’s Bodies and The Law
- Surrogacy and Prostitution
- Abortion
- Violence and Harassment
- Rape and Sexual Assault
- Sexual Harassment
- Mad, Bad Or Sad
Women struggled at the start of the twentieth century to obtain the same legal status as men within society. Women were denied legal personal hood and therefore denied legal rights. For example, the Equal Franchise Act 1928 allowed women over 21 the same right to votes as men and the Sex Disqualification Removal Act 1919 removed the exclusion of wo...
The definition of the public and private realm is where many feminists argue that the law has failed women. The privacy of family means that women are subject to domestic violence and husbands could (until 1992) legally rape their wives. The law was for the public domain - which was the concern of men, and women’s lives were for the private realm -...
Generally, we talk about equality when we talk about women’s rights - women want equality with men. However, it can be argued that the structure of rights - and equality - is from a baseline of a wealthy white male – which means that there is automatically an unlevelled playing field. Obtaining equality and the same rights as men in law fails to co...
The farming and brothel models were coined by writer and feminist activist Andrea Dworkin and can be helpful when thinking about the law and its treatment of women’s bodies. Dworkin’s farming and brothel models are used to illustrate how women are socially controlled and sexually used in society. The brothel model relates to prostitution and the wo...
The law governing surrogacy and prostitution are similar as they seek not to criminalise the acts themselves. For example, prostitution itself is not illegal, but surrounding activities are. This is not about protecting the women as they are not ‘good’ women - it makes women’s loitering and soliciting for the purposes illegal and the behaviour of c...
The Abortion Act 1967 was a response to backstreet abortions and created a defence to the offence of abortion. Your access to abortion services is dependent on your locations and two medical professionals agreeing that a woman should be allowed due to set criteria in the Act. Therefore a woman does not have the right to an abortion and her “choice”...
The year ending March 2020 estimated that 1.6 million adults aged 16 to 74 years had experienced sexual assault by rape or penetration (including attempts) since the age of 16 years. Of victims who experienced sexual assault by rape or penetration (including attempts) since the age of 16 years: 1. fewer than one in six (16%) reported the assault to...
Within the Sexual Offences Act 2003, the legal definition of rape requires rape by a man. The Law needs to evolve to include other types of penetration. Arguably, this makes men the baseline, even for rape. Rape is a complex and multifaceted crime and the law must show this. One issue is consent and when it has or has not been given. To gain a conv...
Among women aged 18-24, 86% said they had been sexually harassed in public spaces, while just 3% did not recall ever having experienced sexually harassing behaviour. The remaining 11% chose not to answer. Although the issue is arguably very prominent in the media at present, sexual harassment is not a criminal offence. Sexual harassment is a form o...
The terms "mad, bad or sad" have been used to identify how women's mental state is treated when they commit crimes. This can be argued to be seen, for example, where women kill their abusive partners and the case of "battered women's syndrome". Helena Kennedy notes that the law on self-defence has been constructed by men considering being attacked ...
Jun 24, 2020 · For all of the time women have been absent from the profession broadly, and in its senior positions particularly, the law has been populated by men who, consciously and unconsciously, have...
- Kate Galloway
Women legal scholars have made significant contributions in subfields that do not emphasize gender issues. No woman law professor, whatever her personal opinions about feminism, need choose feminist jurisprudence as her specialty; nor does the subfield exclude men.
Contemporary feminist jurisprudence is informed by thinkers as temporally and theoretically diverse as Mary Wollstonecraft and Kimberlé Crenshaw, united by a shared recognition of the barriers which continue to hinder gender equality within changing social, cultural, and political contexts.
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This paper thoroughly investigates the social realities of the reasonable person standard and the apparent gender bias in judicial reasoning present in the application of the standard in cases relating to the loss of control defence in criminal law.
