AWS London June 2020 Newsletter
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Book review: Equal to Everything: Judge Brenda and the Supreme Court
The perfect read for children ‘Equal to Everything’ written by Afua Hirsch and Henny Beaumont. Reviewed by Christl Hughes, Committee Member. ISBN 978 1 912273 485 This picture book aimed at 7 to 8 year olds and published to celebrate Lady Hale’s retirement aims to inspire all members of next generation to believe they can…
Book review: Women’s Legal Landmarks – Celebrating the History of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland
A fantastic review Women’s Legal Landmarks – Celebrating the History of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland (Edited by Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty) by Committee Member, Elaine O’Connor. It was difficult as a lawyer, and certainly a female lawyer, in 2019 to be oblivious to the fact that it was a somewhat…
Book Review: Career Management for Lawyers by Rachel Brushfield
Not another book by a Career Coach! Yes but this one is a bit different. Despite the title the book is mainly aimed at solicitors and in my view more at women then men in that for example the majority of the Role Models featured are female and there is good and realistic coverage of …
AWS London Centenary Newsletter
As we approach the anniversary of 100 years of women working within the law, AWS London has, in honour of the occasion, produced a special “bumper” edition of our newsletter.
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Law Society Survey: Have your say!
Following the success of the Law Society’s round table initiative, lead by the previous Law Society President (and AWSL AGM speaker!) Christina Blacklaws, the Law Society is now working on developing further initiatives to support women lawyers in different jurisdictions. To assist them in developing their toolkit, the Law Society and Bates Wells have produced…
AWS London responds to government consultation on sexual harassment in the work place
As an organisation for women solicitors we are of course following the “Freshfields” case and have so far commented as follows: We welcome the fact that the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has taken the allegations of person A seriously and the Tribunal has found that Mr Beckwith had breached SRA principles 2 and 6 in that…
Celebrating Women in the Law with 50:50 Parliament from Rosie Duffield MP
Come to Parliament on 13 May and join the Association of Women Solicitors London and 50:50 Parliament for an inspirational evening being hosted by Rosie Duffield MP to celebrate one hundred years of women in the law. Sign up here!
March 2019 Newsletter
AWS are pleased to present our first newsletter of 2019.
AWS London Newsletter – March 2019
We hope you enjoy it and if you have any ideas for articles please feel free to email our Editor-in-Chief, Eunice Shang-Simpson on awslondon1@gmail.com.
See AWS’s Response to this Law Gazette Article
AWS gave a response to an article published in the Law Gazette last week. You can see the response here. The original article expresses the opinion (and statistics) that women are less likely to consider a media profile as important to ‘credentialise’ themselves. The belief that women are sometimes more reticent than men to put themselves…