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I didn't want to be known as a woman lawyer: Late Justice Leila Seth

She descrbed her time in Bihar very difficult

File photo of Justice Leila Seth the first woman judge of Delhi High Court  who passed away in her home in Noida on Saturday. Photo: PTI
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File photo of Justice Leila Seth the first woman judge of Delhi High Court who passed away in her home in Noida on Saturday. Photo: PTI

Pallavi Saluja
Why did you take up law?
 
It was a very mundane reason. I had gone to England with my husband, and I found that law was one of the few things you could do without attending classes! I had no one in the family who did law and I didn’t have a particular interest. But once I started doing it, I did quite well.
 
I wanted to be a teacher and had done a course in Montessori training and I thought I’d come back to India and set up a small montessori school. But once I did well