Rose Heilbron

Dame Rose Heilbron QC DBE (born August 19, 1914 in Liverpool - † December 8, 2005 ) was a British lawyer who was both one of the first two female crown attorneys and one of the first female judges in the High Court of Justice , one of the highest courts Great Britain.

Life

She was the daughter of the innkeeper Max Heilbron and his wife Nelly. After completing school, she studied law at the University of Liverpool with the support of her mother and a scholarship, and in 1935 she was the first woman to graduate with a Juris Doctor summa cum laude at the age of twenty. In 1936 she was admitted to Gray's Inn , one of the four English bar associations ( Inns of Court ) for barristers in England, and had been a barrister since 1939. In 1949 she was admitted to the bar with Helen Normanton , who was the first woman in Great Britain to be admitted to the bar in 1922Crown Prosecutor was appointed and from then on bore the addition "King's Counsel" or, after Queen Elizabeth II's accession to the throne in 1952, the addition "Queen's Counsel".

In 1956 she was appointed as the first woman to be a judge and was a reporter ( recorder ) for Burnley until 1974 . From January 4, 1972, she served as the first female judge at the Old Bailey Court in London . In 1974 she was appointed judge to the High Court of Justice. She was the second female judge at this Supreme Court in Great Britain after Elizabeth Lane . There she was up to its entry into the retirement 1988 Judge in the Family Division ( Family Division ) and as such was in 1975 also Chairman of the Advisory Commission of the interior minister for rape ( Home Secretary's Advisory Group on Rape ). She was also the presiding judge of the High Court for the Northern Circuit between 1979 and 1982 .

Private life

As a student, she reportedly did not indulge in any leisure activities, but later her hobbies included golf and walks. She was a soroptimist . In 1945 she married the general practitioner Nathaniel Burstein, with whom she had the daughter Hilary in 1949, who was also appointed Queen's Counsel in 1987 after studying law.

literature

• Rachel Cooke: Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties . Virago 2013.
• Memorandum of evidence submitted to Mrs. Justice Heilbron's committee on rape , 1975.

Web links and sources

• Chambers Biographical Dictionary , pp. 702, Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 .
• Great women in world history , p. 215, Klagenfurt 1987.
• Biography (DuHaime Law Museum).
• THE GUARDIAN: Dame Rose Heilbron: High-flying lawyer whose remarkable career was a series of firsts for women (December 13, 2005).
• THE TELEGRAPH: Dame Rose Heilbron (December 10, 2005).
• THE TIMES: Dame Rose Heilbron: The first woman to sit as a judge at the Old Bailey (December 13, 2005).
• THE GUARDIAN: My legal hero: Rose Heilbron: One of the first two women to be made QC had a delicate name, but a strong character (August 11, 2010).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Guardian of December 13, 2005: Dame Rose Heilbron (English), accessed on January 3, 2012.
2. ↑ Bibliography (openlibrary.org).