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Nemone Lethbridge, lawyer and writer

2025/3/2
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@Nemini Lethbridge : 我在1950年代中期成为律师时,面临着严重的性别歧视。起初,我被禁止使用律师事务所的厕所,并且很难找到案子。尽管如此,我仍然坚持了下来,并通过为臭名昭著的Kray twins辩护而声名鹊起。我的婚姻使我的法律职业生涯中断,因为我的丈夫有犯罪记录,这导致我被解雇。在希腊生活多年后,我于1981年重返律师行业,并一直从事公益工作,直到92岁高龄。我的职业生涯充满了挑战和不公正,但我从未放弃对正义的追求。我的人生经历丰富多彩,如果只是走常规道路,将会很乏味。我处理过各种各样的案件,包括人口贩卖和包办婚姻等棘手问题。我选择法律职业是因为我对政治感兴趣,并且一直以来都非常关注政治。在牛津大学学习法律期间,我只有两名女性同学,并且我的导师认为女性不适合从事法律职业。然而,我并没有被这些偏见吓倒,而是继续努力,最终取得了成功。我为Kray twins辩护的经历也十分独特,他们虽然犯下重罪,但对我却总是彬彬有礼。我的丈夫Jimmy O'Connor虽然有犯罪记录,但我们仍然相爱并结婚,这导致我被律师事务所解雇。在希腊期间,我开始写作,我的剧本探讨了当时被视为禁忌的主题,例如生育问题和产后抑郁症。我的作品引发了争议,但也帮助了许多女性。我仍然在为洗清丈夫的冤屈而努力。 @Lauren Laverne : Nemini Lethbridge女士的职业生涯和人生经历令人印象深刻。她不仅克服了性别歧视的巨大障碍,还在法律和写作领域取得了显著成就。她的故事激励着无数女性,也展现了女性在各个领域都能取得成功的可能性。她对正义的追求和对社会问题的关注,更值得我们敬佩。

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Nemone Lethbridge began her legal career in the 1950s facing significant gender-based discrimination, including being barred from using the same facilities as her male colleagues. Despite these challenges, she made a name for herself defending the Kray twins.
  • Nemone Lethbridge was one of the few female barristers in London in the 1950s.
  • She defended the notorious Kray twins early in her career.
  • The Lethbridge White Gloves tradition honors her trailblazing career.

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Nemone Lethbridge is a barrister who was called to the bar in 1956. One of very few female barristers working at the time, she encountered misogyny and was one of the trailblazers for women working in the legal profession who followed behind her. At her first Chambers, she wasn’t allowed to share a toilet with her male colleagues and had to use the facilities in a nearby café. It was hard for her to find work and for some time she represented the Kray twins. After her marriage to a writer, and former convicted criminal was revealed, she was forced to leave the legal profession and they moved to Greece for a number of years where both of them had careers as writers having their work filmed for the BBC. Nemone returned to the Bar in 1981 and continues to do pro bono work at 92 years old. She lives in London.

DISC ONE: Go Down, Moses - Paul Robeson DISC TWO: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - The Choir of King’s College Cambridge DISC THREE: Scarborough Fair – Simon & Garfunkel DISC FOUR: I Wanna Go Back to Dixie - Tom Lehrer DISC FIVE: Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 / Act 3: "Sull’aria ... Che soave zeffiretto" Performed by Edith Mathis (soprano), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin and conducted by Karl Böhm DISC SIX: Strose to Stroma sou – Mikis Theodorakis DISC SEVEN: September Song - Gracie Fields DISC EIGHT: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: Chorale. Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Arr. for Piano) (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring) Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach and performed by Lang Lang BOOK CHOICE: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam LUXURY ITEM: A doll CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 / Act 3: "Sull’aria ... Che soave zeffiretto". Performed by Edith Mathis (soprano), Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin and conducted by Karl Böhm

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