Lady Hale - Spider Woman: A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

Richmond and its castle in early autumn.The Hurworth Hunt meets outside Scorton Grammar School and Leonard Robinsons old house, 1930s.Watercolour drawing of Scorton village green in 1860 by Juliana Ewing, a well-known childrens author, frontispiece to Mrs Gatty and Mrs Ewing by Christina Maxwell.Staff and pupils of Scorton Grammar School in 1949, including Joe the handyman and Mrs Botterill the cook, as well as Mr Hale the headmaster and Mrs Hale.Portrait of Grandpa Godfrey when he was headmaster of Mansfield Grammar School.Kiplin Hall, saved from destruction by sand and gravel.Aunt Mary Godfrey, my mothers more beautiful sister.My parents, Marjorie Godfrey and Cecil Hale, in their wedding outfits, 1936.Brenda, Jillian and Frances Hale in 1946.Frances (left) and Brenda (right) in matching outfits with sister Jill.Brenda, Joan and Claire, best friends at Richmond High School.Richmond High School for Girls, an outstanding example of modern school architecture, built in 1939.St Marys Church, Bolton-on-Swale.Brenda receiving the Freedom of Richmond, 2018.Master of the Company of Fellmongers of Richmond, Yorkshire, 2017.Watercolour of Girton College, Cambridge, by its architect, Alfred Waterhouse.Brenda in a home-made ballgown at Sidney Sussex College May Ball, 1965.The Lhotka family at home near Klosterneuburg, Austria, 1963.The European Schools Day prize-winners in Strasbourg, 1962. Ursula in the front row, on the right.Mother and baby, 1974.Julia and children admiring the view while out walking in Swaledale, 2016.Mrs Noah in Andr Obeys play Noah, 1961 she goes mad.Strange Adventure Kate in The Yeomen of the Guard, Cambridge University Gilbert and Sullivan Society, 1966.Anya in The Cherry Orchard, Manchester University Stage Society, 1969.Mae West has all the best lines, A Night at the Cinema Grays Inn Miscellany, 2014.Am I not your Lord? thunders Julian as Oberon. I have Lords enough about me, declares Brenda as Titania, to general merriment. Shakespeare Inn Love, or A Miscellany of Errors, Grays Inn, 2016.Cover of Women and the Law, published 1984.With stepson Tom, his wife Lieve, Julian and Julia, at High Court swearing-in, 1994.With stepdaughter Sarah, Julian and Julia, at Court of Appeal swearing-in, 1999.Introduced to the House of Lords, 2004.The Law Lords with their clerk in Committee Room No. 1 in the Houses of Parliament, 2008.With House of Lords Judicial Assistant, Rachel, 20056.With Lord Neuberger, Lord Rodger and Lord Hope, enjoying judgments in the House of Lords, 2009.Next page