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Women's legal landmarks: celebrating 100 years of women and law in the UK and Ireland
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Hart Publishing
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2019.
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English
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9781782259787
9781782259794
9781782259794
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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.
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