Matilda Meech
New Zealand shopkeeper and businesswoman. In 1891, Meech filed suit against Wellington City Council for the pollution of her baths caused by their destructor plant; she won the case and £200 as compensation
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Rāhui Te Kiri Tenetahi
Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whatua woman of mana, ship owner and land claimant
Effie Richardson
New Zealand landowner and litigant
Fuzz Barnes
New Zealand law clerk and political activist
Dr Mary Redmond
Irish solicitor and founder of the Irish Hospice Foundation
Rosemary Nelson
Irish human rights lawyer
Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
In 1777, after being rejected by the University of Turin, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti graduated at 21 in Iure utroque (civil and canon Law) at the University of Pavia, defending her doctoral theses.
Ethel Field
New Zealand community leader
Ann Robertson
New Zealand businesswoman
Suzanne Bastid
Prominent French law professor with a specialization in international public law.