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Bebb v Law Society (1914)

Dismantling the barriers

Giles Bayliss looks back at a case that laid the groundwork for the entry of women into the legal profession

Justice of Appeal Lady Butler-Sloss (left) at the judge’s procession

This column is relevant to understanding the legal profession: AQA AS Law 01; OCR AS Unit G151: English Legal System and WJEC LA2.

In December 1912 four women submitted applications to the Law Society to sit the preliminary examinations necessary for admission to the solicitors’ profession. Karin Costelloe, Maud Crofts (née Ingram) and Lucy Nettlefold had all been students at the University of Cambridge and Gwyneth Bebb had been a student at the University of Oxford.

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