Men-only Garrick Club to vote on admitting women as members

After the vote, all members have been invited to a dinner at the club’s greying, Italianate stone building near Leicester Square. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

The men-only Garrick Club will vote on Tuesday evening on whether female members should be allowed to join, after decades of controversy over the London club’s refusal to admit women.

Members will meet at a Covent Garden venue at 5pm to debate the issue. They will then vote on a resolution inviting them to confirm that a new legal analysis of the Garrick’s 193-year-old rulebook suggests there is actually nothing in it preventing women from joining already.