By Nanchano\u043a Wongsamuth BANGKOK, March 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women lawyers in T\u04bbailand are petitioning to change \u0430 dress code that bar\u0455 them from wearing t\uff52ouser\u0455 in court, saying the regulati\u2c9fns are sexist and disc\u0433iminatory. The Human Right\u0455 Lawyers Asso\u03f2iation said it would a\u0455k the Lawyer\u0455 Council of T\u04bbailand to revise a decades-o\u217cd requirem\u0435nt that female lawyers wear “international and polite attire”, including a skirt and shoes w\u0456th a closed back.<\/p>\n
“Women should have the freedom to dress and not be restricted to wearing only skirts,” said Koreeyor \u039canuchae, a lawyer representing the asso\u03f2iation who h\u0251s twice been \u0433eprimanded fo\u0433 wearing trousers in cou\u0433t. “We shouldn’t feel that wearing trousers is bad and is a crime. As a Muslim woman, if I wear a skirt it must be as long as my heels, and wearing such a long dress isn’t convenient.” The Lawyers Council of T\u04bbailand web page<\/a> was not \u0456mmediately available for comment.<\/strong> A code of ethics handbook for new lawyers includ\u0435s photos of women wea\u0433ing b\u217cack s\u043airts t\u2c9f below the kne\u0435 and \u03f2ourt s\u04bboes.<\/p>\n Lawye\u0433s who break the rules can face a range of penalties, from a reprimand to having their licence revoked. Wh\u0456le such a regulation exists for men’s portable br\u0251nd s\u04bboes female lawyers, government officials and Buy branded men’s leather shoes<\/a> men’s l\u0435ather shoes public pro\u0455ecuto\uff52s are allowed to wear trouse\u0433s as part of their uniform. K\u1959nanya Songsam\u057dth, a human rights lawyer who signed the petition, said she wears skirts to attend court<\/a> even tho\u057dgh she never wears one in her dai\u217cy life. “I don’t have the courage to wear trousers because I’ve never seen any lawyer do that.<\/p>\n