Lady Hale has came under fire for being in favour of gay adoption and legally recognised gay partnerships Supreme Court/PAA self-confessed “soft” feminist, Baroness Hale of Richmond has long deplored that she sticks out like a sore thumb as the only woman in the UK’s highest court. From today she will be even more prominent when she makes history by becoming the court’s president, the first woman to reach that level in the judiciary. Lady Hale, 72, a Yorkshirewoman whose parents were both head teachers, has chalked up other legal firsts: she was the first woman and first family judge to sit on the Supreme Court. She was the first woman law lord in the Supreme Court’s predecessor, the House of Lords appellate committee. Her legal career has been unconventional: she was a law professor at Manchester University for many years and did not…

Source: The Times July 20, 2017 22:52 UTC