Anne-Marie Hutchinson Memorial Lecture

Anne-Marie Hutchinson Memorial Lecture

I have been given the great honour today of talking about my friend and colleague, the late Anne-Marie Hutchinson, OBE QC (Hons).

Speaking at the tail end of this meeting, I have to keep this interesting!

I am not going to talk at first about Anne-Marie, but two other inspirational women in my first law job, when I was young and green. I’m doing so because they offer parallels with Anne-Marie. One of those women has spoken at this conference. She was a young mum, passionate, caring about clients, concerned about domestic violence (which did not have that name back then), a bit of a perfectionist, a very stylish dresser, took steps to end forced marriage, and a top class family lawyer. On one occasion that lawyer was refused the ability to appear by an old dinosaur of a judge- because she wore culottes.

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