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Nearly 400 legal professionals gathered in London yesterday at the Women and Diversity in Law Awards to honour outstanding women leaders and practitioners as well as the legal teams and businesses working to make the UK profession more closely reflect the society in which it operates.
The evening, which was hosted by The Global Legal Post, culminated with the showcase Woman of the Year category, which saw the judging panel take the unusual step of announcing two winners: Charlotte Proudman of Goldsmith Chambers and Monica Feria-Tinta of Twenty Essex.
Proudman, a family law specialist, led a successful campaign by lawyers to end the Garrick Club’s all-male membership last year while human rights barrister Monica Feria-Tinta secured the dismissal of disciplinary charges against Proudman last December on freedom of speech grounds over a Twitter thread criticising a judgment from a feminist perspective.
Other notable winners included Farrer & Co, which secured Law Firm of the Year, Virgin Media O2, which was named In-house Legal Department of the Year, and GROW Mentoring, which won the hotly contested Not-for-Profit Organisation or Representative Body of the Year category.
Three law firm leaders were honoured: Kizzy Augustin (Mishcon De Reya), Laura Hughes (Browne Jacobson) and Kate Bennett (Arbor Law), while Howden general counsel Frances Coats was named General Counsel of the Year.
Among the Outstanding Women Practitioners were Weil partner Hayley Lund (Disputes Lawyer of the Year), Gráinne Mellon, Garden Court Chambers (Advocate of the Year) and Sage Revell, Brown Rudnick (Commercial Lawyer of the Year).
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Dame Bobbie Cheema-Grubb, who became the first Asian woman ever to be appointed as Treasury Counsel and subsequently a High Court judge.
The host for the evening was Maryam Moshiri, chief presenter of the BBC news programme The World Today while the official charity for the night was mental health charity LawCare.
New judges this year included Lisa Ardley-Price, global co-chair of NatWest’s gender network, Rachel Walker, general counsel and chief administrative officer - Europe, GLP Capital Partners, and Sophie Breuil, head of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, CMS.
This year's sponsors were Byfield, CM Murray, OneAdvanced and Pirical. The support partners were Cake & Counsel and Future Dreams.
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