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This program is 50 minutes. Todays lecture will be on the magna carta. A document of great historical significance to the rule of law. The 800th anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. And we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer, the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the right honorable baroness hale of richmond. Let me describe a bit the historical feats that lady hale has herself accomplished. She was the only member of she was the woman. She was only member of the u. K. Supreme court to be a woman. She was the first and only woman in 1999 was the when she was appointed to the court of appeals. In 1994, she was the First High Court judge to come from a background as an academic and a Public Servant rather than as a practicing banister, although she had been called to the bar in 1969 and 1989. When she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided that the ratio, one of six women in her class, she was the only member of that class
Significance to the rule of law. The 800th anniversary of which will be two weeks from today. And we are honored and privileged to have as our lecturer the Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the honorable, barren else of richland. The historical feats that the lady has herself accomplished. She is the first and as far as the only member of the Supreme Court to be a woman. She was the first and only longhorn that was a woman in 1999 when she was appoint to the court of appeals and only the second woman appointed to the court of appeal and privy council. She was the First High Court judge to come from an academic and serve ant. She had been called to the bar in 1969 and in 1989. When she practiced law briefly in manchester, she decided the ratio, as much as she had seen in cambridge, she was one of six women in her class. She was the only one to get a star first for exceptional distinction. She became an academic at Manchester City specializing in family law, wr