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Judicial Appointments (Women)

Volume 154: debated on Thursday 18 May 1922

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asked the Attorney-General whether, as a woman has now been called to the Bar and others will be called in the near future, judicial positions, including judgeships of the High Court and County Court judgeships, will be open for the appointment of women members of the Bar?

Any woman who possesses the statutory qualifications required for appointment to a judicial office is, equally with any man, eligible for appointment to that office.