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30/03/2020 GMT

Britain's first woman judge

BBC World Service - Witness History, Britain's first woman judge

Rose Heilbron was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession in Britain.

Rose Heilbron was celebrated internationally as a leading courtroom lawyer in 1950s Britain. She became the first woman judge to sit at London's Old Bailey criminal court.

Rose Heilbron was a trailblazer for women in the legal profession in Britain. She was made the first woman judge in the UK in the 1950s and made headlines around the world when she became the first to sit at the world famous criminal court, London's Old Bailey.  Her daughter, Hilary Heilbron QC remembers how hard she fought to be accepted.

Photo: English KC (King's Counsel) Rose Heilbron (1914 - 2005) arrives at the House of Lords in London, for the traditional champagne breakfast hosted by the Lord Chancellor at the start of the Michaelmas Term for the law courts, 2nd October 1950. (Credit William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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