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In this first full-length account of Helena Normanton’s life and career, Judith Bourne tells of her fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and open it up to women.
Helena Normanton and the Opening of the Bar to Women describes how her ambition was forged as a child after seeing her mother patronised by a solicitor. It tells how the press were quick to pigeon-hole and harass her, leading to disciplinary proceedings for ‘self-advertising’. Enmeshed in a world of men, Helena Normanton faced a constant struggle to establish herself against a backdrop of prejudice, misogyny and discrimination. The book describes how solicitors, fearful of the unknown, were reluctant to instruct her, leaving her to take on poor person’s cases, dock briefs and those few cases ‘deemed suitable for a woman’.
But Helena Normanton was a force to be reckoned with. She was not just the first woman to be admitted to an Inn of Court, hold briefs in the High Court and Old Bailey, and (as one of two women) be made a King’s Counsel, but a prolific author, leading feminist and speaker who entranced audiences at home and abroad. Along with the controversies that eternally surrounded her and her own foibles, this is all contained in this captivating book.
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'[ An ] excellent biography of Helena Normanton, brilliantly researched by Judith Bourne... a captivating book for all aspiring barristers to read'-- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers.
‘Bourne has succeeded in rendering Normanton as a human being, a woman with grit and aspiration, whose experiences were as often disappointing as celebratory in the context of her time and place’-- Professor Mary Jane Mossman (from the Foreword)
Author
Judith Bourne is an academic at St. Mary's University, Twickenham and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Culture. She founded and chairs the 'First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and the Empire Symposia'. With a doctorate from King's College, London, Judith formerly practised as a barrister. Her research focuses on Feminist Perspectives on Law, Land Law and Equity and Trusts Law.
Professor Mary Jane Mossman has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Ontario since 1977 and was Director of the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies 2002–2010. She was also a faculty member at the University of New South Wales and a Visiting Professor at numerous other university law schools. Her research focuses on property law, family law, access to justice and issues of gender and the legal profession. Among her recent books is The First Women Lawyers A Comparative Study of Gender, Law and the Legal Professions (Oxford Hart Publishing, 2006).
Helena Normanton and the Opening of the Bar to Women edition by Judith Bourne Mary Jane Mossman Professional Technical eBooks
A DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE FORERUNNER TO SHAPING A MODERN BAR:THE COURAGEOUS PIONEER HELENA NORMANTON
An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
We desperately need books like this excellent biography of Helena Normanton brilliantly researched by Judith Bourne. It is quite difficult for many people today to understand the sheer impossibility of “breaking the glass ceiling” as it is quaintly called in 21st century. Mary Jane Mossman’s Foreword should be read first to set the scene of how the way has been paved for women at the modern Bar of today.
Normanton’s story is a legal history lesson of past wrongs and inequalities, and disappointments. At last, we are seeing the sorts of problems which have beset so many who have wished to be called to the Bar in the past, explaining the Bar’s sexist history to a new generation of lawyers as we begin to see more women reading for the Bar now and in future long-term practice.
The biography is well described by Waterside Press as the “first full-length account of Helena Normanton's life and career”. Bourne describes Normanton’s dramatic fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and to see it opened up to women with the most elegant prose and excellent detail, and, frankly, some sadness for her situation.
The publishers are to be commended for publishing this story at the right time for the Bar and for setting out how Normanton’s ambition was “forged as a child after seeing her mother patronized by a solicitor” (how many of us have had to put up with that, we wonder!).
Bourne describes how the press were “quick to pigeon-hole and harass Normanton which lead to disciplinary proceedings for 'self-advertising'”. And how things have changed for the modern Bar (thankfully, but very late in the day) although the author does place the social values and standards of the early and middle 20th century in their rightful historic setting.
As the book explains to its readers, “enmeshed in a world of men”, Normanton “faced a constant struggle to establish herself against a backdrop of prejudice, misogyny and discrimination”. Just remember, though, for balance that it’s not just women who have faced this attitude which still persist in some quarters today.
Bourne goes on to describe a position many of us (men and women) have faced “when solicitors, fearful of the unknown, were reluctant to instruct her, leaving her to take on poor person's cases, dock briefs and those 'deemed suitable for a woman'”. Sadly, it’s only very recently that attitudes of sexual snobbery have changed for the better which is why this story has such importance for modern Counsel (of either sex).
Normanton was “a force to be reckoned with”, and has the distinction that she is described as “not just the first woman to be admitted to an Inn of Court, hold briefs in the High Court and Old Bailey, and (with Rose Heilbron) be made a King's Counsel, but a prolific author, leading feminist and speaker who entranced audiences at home and abroad”. Any reader can gauge from this main statement alone just a small part of what the struggle was like in “the old days”. Thankfully, matters are much changed at the dawn of a new digital era for barristers.
It’s most certainly a captivating book for all aspiring barristers to read and it covers the controversies which eternally surrounded her life, her progress and her foibles most fairly although one can easily become both angry and frustrated by what Normanton went through as a pioneer for her grit and aspiration.
The publication date is 2016.
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Helena Normanton and the Opening of the Bar to Women edition by Judith Bourne Mary Jane Mossman Professional Technical eBooks Reviews
A DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF THE FORERUNNER TO SHAPING A MODERN BAR
THE COURAGEOUS PIONEER HELENA NORMANTON
An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers
We desperately need books like this excellent biography of Helena Normanton brilliantly researched by Judith Bourne. It is quite difficult for many people today to understand the sheer impossibility of “breaking the glass ceiling” as it is quaintly called in 21st century. Mary Jane Mossman’s Foreword should be read first to set the scene of how the way has been paved for women at the modern Bar of today.
Normanton’s story is a legal history lesson of past wrongs and inequalities, and disappointments. At last, we are seeing the sorts of problems which have beset so many who have wished to be called to the Bar in the past, explaining the Bar’s sexist history to a new generation of lawyers as we begin to see more women reading for the Bar now and in future long-term practice.
The biography is well described by Waterside Press as the “first full-length account of Helena Normanton's life and career”. Bourne describes Normanton’s dramatic fight to join the Bar of England and Wales and to see it opened up to women with the most elegant prose and excellent detail, and, frankly, some sadness for her situation.
The publishers are to be commended for publishing this story at the right time for the Bar and for setting out how Normanton’s ambition was “forged as a child after seeing her mother patronized by a solicitor” (how many of us have had to put up with that, we wonder!).
Bourne describes how the press were “quick to pigeon-hole and harass Normanton which lead to disciplinary proceedings for 'self-advertising'”. And how things have changed for the modern Bar (thankfully, but very late in the day) although the author does place the social values and standards of the early and middle 20th century in their rightful historic setting.
As the book explains to its readers, “enmeshed in a world of men”, Normanton “faced a constant struggle to establish herself against a backdrop of prejudice, misogyny and discrimination”. Just remember, though, for balance that it’s not just women who have faced this attitude which still persist in some quarters today.
Bourne goes on to describe a position many of us (men and women) have faced “when solicitors, fearful of the unknown, were reluctant to instruct her, leaving her to take on poor person's cases, dock briefs and those 'deemed suitable for a woman'”. Sadly, it’s only very recently that attitudes of sexual snobbery have changed for the better which is why this story has such importance for modern Counsel (of either sex).
Normanton was “a force to be reckoned with”, and has the distinction that she is described as “not just the first woman to be admitted to an Inn of Court, hold briefs in the High Court and Old Bailey, and (with Rose Heilbron) be made a King's Counsel, but a prolific author, leading feminist and speaker who entranced audiences at home and abroad”. Any reader can gauge from this main statement alone just a small part of what the struggle was like in “the old days”. Thankfully, matters are much changed at the dawn of a new digital era for barristers.
It’s most certainly a captivating book for all aspiring barristers to read and it covers the controversies which eternally surrounded her life, her progress and her foibles most fairly although one can easily become both angry and frustrated by what Normanton went through as a pioneer for her grit and aspiration.
The publication date is 2016.
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