Women's legal landmarks: celebrating 100 years of women and law in the UK and Ireland

Women's legal landmarks : an introduction / Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty

Cyfraith Hywel (the laws of Hywel Dda), c. 940 / Carol Howells

A vindication of the rights of woman, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 / Anna Jobe

Gaols act 1823 / Ruth Lamont

The Slave, Grace (1827) / Rosemary Auchmuty

A brief summary of the most important laws concerning women, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1854 / Joanne Conaghan

Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 / Penelope Russell

Married Women's Property Act 1882 / Andy Hayward

First woman prospective parliamentary candidate, Helen Taylor, 1885 / Janet Smith

Section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 / Lois Bibbings

Match women's strike, 1888 / Jacqueline Lane

R v Jackson (1891) / Teresa Sutton

A pageant of great women, Cicely Hamilton, 1909-12 / Katharine Cockin

Representation of the People Act 1918 / Mari Takayanagi

Maternity and Child Welfare Act 1918 / Hazel Biggs

Article 7 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, 1919 / Aoife O'Donoghue

Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 / Mari Takayanagi

First women justices of the peace, 1919 / Anne Logan

First woman to be admitted to an inn of court, Helena Normanton, 1919 / Judith Bourne

Committee on the Employment of Women on Police Duties, 1920 / Colin R Moore

First woman law agent, Madge Easton Anderson, 1920 / Alison Lindsay

Foundation of the Association of Women Solicitors, 1921 / Elizabeth Cruickshank

First woman to practise as a barrister in Ireland and the (then) United Kingdom, Averil Deverell, 1921 / Liz Goldthorpe

First woman solicitor in England and Wales, Carrie Morrison, 1922 / Elizabeth Cruickshank

Matrimonial Causes Act 1923 / Penelope Russell

First woman member of the Faculty of Advocates, Margaret Kidd, 1923 / Catriona Cairns

First woman professor of law in Ireland, Frances Moran, 1925 / Emma Hutchinson

DPP v Jonathan Cape and Leopold Hill (1928) / Caroline Derry

Edwards v Attorney-General of Canada (1929) / Sarah Mercer

Education Act 1944 / Harriet Samuels

Family Allowances Act 1945 / Lucy Vickers

British Nationality Act 1948 / Helen Kay and Rose Pipes

Married Women (Restraint upon Anticipation) Act 1949 / Rosemary Auchmuty

Life Peerages Act 1958 / Supuni Perera

First woman to hold regular judicial office in England and Wales, Rose Heilbron, 1964 / Laura Lammasniemi

Married Women's Property Act 1964 / Sharon Thompson

First woman High Court judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Lane, 1965 / Judith Bourne and Frances Burton

Abortion Act 1967 / Nicky Priaulx and Natalie Jones

National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967 / Leonora Onaran

Dagenham car plant strike, 1968 / Dawn Watkins

First woman professor of law in the United Kingdom, Claire Palley, 1970 / Fiona Cownie

First women's refuge, 1971 / Felicity Kaganas

Section 25 of the Criminal Justice Act 1972 / Anne Logan

Sex Discrimination Act 1975 / Anne Morris

First rape crisis centre, 1976 / Alison Diduck

Section 4 of the Sexual Offences (amendment) Act 1976 / Clare McGlynn and Julia Downes

Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977 / Laura Binger and Helen Carr

Davis v Johnson (1978) / Susan Edwards

Health (Family Planning) Act 1979 / Máiréad Enright

Williams & Glyn's Bank v Boland (1980) / Rosemary Auchmuty

Greenham Common women's peace camp, 1981-2000 / Elizabeth Woodcraft

Gill and Coote v El Vino Co ltd (1982) / Anne Morris

Women and the law, Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett, 1984 / Brenda Hale and Susan Atkins

Warnock report, 1984 / Kirsty Horsey

Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 / Phyllis Livaha

Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority (1985) / Emma Nottingham

Grant v Edwards (1986) / Joanne Beswick

Section 32 of the Finance Act 1988 / Ann Mumford

First woman Court of Appeal judge in England and Wales, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, 1988 / Dana Denis-Smith

Section 5 of the Criminal Law (Rape) (amendment) Act 1990 / Susan Leahy

First woman president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, 1990 / Leah Treanor

Foundation of the Association of Women Barristers, 1991 / Frances Burton

R v Ahluwalia (1992) / Siobhan Weare

Feminist legal studies journal, 1993 / Rosemary Hunter

Barclays Bank v O'brien (1993) / Sarah Greer

Webb v Emo Air Cargo (UK) ltd (no 2) (1994) / Debra Morris

First woman to lead a top 10 law firm in England and Wales, Lesley Macdonagh, 1995 / Steven Vaughan

Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1995 / Laura Cahillane

St George's Healthcare NHS Trust v S (1998) / Kay Lalor, Anne Morris and Annapurna Waughray

Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 / Sonia Kalsi

Islam v Secretary of State for the Home Department, R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal and another, ex parte Shah (1999) / Nora Honkala

White v White (2000) / Jonathan Herring

Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Act 2002 / Susan Atkins

Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 / Nikki Godden-Rasul

National Assembly for Wales Election, 2003 / Catrin Fflur Huws

Mental Capacity Act 2005 / Rosie Harding

UK ratification of the optional protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (OP-CEDAW), 2005 / Meghan Campbell

Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 / Pragna Patel

First woman attorney general for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Patricia Scotland, 2007 / Linda Mulcahy

Section 14 of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 / F Vera-Grey

Radmacher v Granatino (2010) / Marie Parker

Concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture, recommendation to Iireland regarding the Magdalene Laundries, 2011 / Maeve O'Rourke

Birmingham City Council v Abdulla (2012) / Harini Iyengar

Electoral (amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012 / Ivana Bacik

Protection of Life during Pregnancy Act 2013 / Fiona de Londras

R v Nimmo and Sorley (2014) / Kim Barker

Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure 2014 and Canon c2, "of the consecration of bishops", 2014 / Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

In the matter of an application for judicial review by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2015) / Marie Fox and Sheelagh McGuiness

Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence (Wales) Act 2015 / Olga Jurasz

Section 2 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016 / Erika Rackley

First woman president of the UK Supreme Court, Brenda Hale, 2017 / Erika Rackley

Thirty-sixth amendment of the Irish constitution, 2018 / Fiona de Londras.