"The higher you go,
the fewer women there are"

- Wangari Maathai - Kenyan Peace Laureate

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Who We Are

We aim to connect women working across the Criminal Justice System. Our membership includes:

Solicitors and trainees
Barristers and pupils
Higher rights advocates
Criminal clerks
Judges and lawyers working in the Court of Appeal and CCRC
Chartered legal executives and paralegals

We are eternally grateful to our wonderful Patron, The Rt Hon. Baroness Heather Hallett DBE.

Words from our Founder

Katy Thorne KC

Founder and Chair

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Women need to stand together, shoulder to shoulder. Working in criminal law can be a frustrating business for us. We all know the statistics, women join criminal law in droves, but they face barriers to their success and they leave or are leapfrogged by male counterparts.

But things are changing and we want to help women succeed and become the future female leaders.

We are very proud of the achievements of Women in Criminal Law so far, and hope you will join us, if you haven’t already, to help us to ensure that women are properly represented at the top levels of our professions: partnership, King’s Counsel and judiciary. Our training and mentoring programmes will help you succeed and help you to help others achieve their potential. Our campaigns will help fight for a better working environment. Along the way we hope you will make connections, feel supported and inspire others.

Hope to see you at our next event!