Council Chair helps mark International Women’s Day

Council Chair, Lady Dorrian, joined a group of leading Scottish legal minds to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day.

Lady Dorrian, Scotland’s first woman Lord Justice Clerk, said: “In 1901, the Court of Session ruled that women were not ‘persons’ for the purposes of the Law Agents Act 1873, and thus could not be admitted to the practice of law.

“This year’s theme of International Women's Day is Women in the changing world of work. To reflect the massive changes which have occurred for women in Scotland in the world of work over the last century, it seems very fitting to mark IWD with photographs of what is in fact only a small number of the women who currently practise in Scotland, in all branches of the legal profession and at all levels.”

The photograph, taken in Parliament Hall, Edinburgh, is courtesy of Victoria Young, Advocate. Lady Dorrian is pictured in the front row, fourth from the right.