The new list of Queen’s Counsel appointments for the 2011-2012 year period has now been published.
The 88 appointed this year included:
- 23 women applicants (58% of the 40 who applied). In the competition in 2010-11, 27 women (66% of the 41 who applied) were appointed.
- 6 applicants who declared an ethnic origin other than white (40% of the 15 who applied – 3 % of all applicants) were appointed, a lower proportion than in 2010-11 when 12 applicants (60%) were appointed.
- 4 applicants (of 7) who declared a disability were appointed. In the competition in 2010-11, 5 applicants declared a disability and 2 appointed.
- 3 applicants aged over 50 at the time of their application were appointed (8% of this age group), compared with 13 successful applicants (27% of that age group) appointed last year.
- 2 applications were received from solicitor advocates, neither of whom were appointed, compared with one appointed of the 2 who applied in 2010-11.
- 1 employed advocate (of 3 applicants) was appointed. In 2010-11, 2 applications from employed advocates were received and 1 was appointed.
The new successful applicants are as follows:
|
Forenames |
Surname |
Broad Field of Practice |
| Lawrence Mark | Akka |
1 |
| Jacques Max | Algazy |
1 |
| Zafar Abbas | Ali |
2 |
| Tracey Anne | Angus |
1 |
| Kieron Conrad | Beal |
1 |
| Gary Terence | Bell |
2 |
| Ranjit | Bhose |
1 |
| Deborah Jane | Bickerstaff |
2 |
| Katherine Elizabeth | Blackwell |
2 |
| Michael David | Bools |
1 |
| Paul Edward | Bowen |
1 |
| Damian Robert | Brown |
1 |
| Ceri | Bryant |
1 |
| Andrew Thomas | Cayley |
2 |
| Richard James Lee | Coleman |
1 |
| James Douglas | Collins |
1 |
| Edmund William Hector | Cullen |
1 |
| Adrian Munro | Darbishire |
2 |
| Adam David | Davis |
2 |
| Anneliese Mary | Day |
1 |
| Thomas Orlando | De La Mare |
1 |
| Marie-Eleni Eliza | Demetriou |
1 |
| Benjamin Michael Gordon | Elkington |
1 |
| David Lewis | Evans |
1 |
| Caspar Hilary Gordon | Glyn |
1 |
| Paul Andrew | Gott |
1 |
| Patrick Curtis | Green |
1 |
| Nicholas John | Griffin |
1 & 2 |
| Alexander Rupert | Gunning |
1 |
| Teertha | Gupta |
3 |
| Sally-Ann | Hales |
2 |
| Richard Tristan | Harrison |
3 |
| Frances Margaret | Heaton |
3 |
| Mark Stephen | Heywood |
2 |
| Richard Geoffrey | Hill |
1 |
| Emma Katherine | Himsworth |
1 |
| Andrew Michael | Hunter |
1 |
| Alexander Forbes | Hutton |
1 |
| Zoe Elisabeth | Johnson |
2 |
| Sean William | Jones |
1 |
| Chirag Vrajlal | Karia |
1 |
| Jonathan Shea | Kinnear |
1 & 2 |
| James Matthew Lang | Laddie |
1 |
| Taryn Jane | Lee |
3 |
| Samantha Louise | Leek |
1 |
| Henry | Legge |
1 |
| Nicholas James Henry | Lumley |
2 |
| John William | Machell |
1 |
| Philip John | Marshall |
3 |
| Sara Alayna | Masters |
1 |
| Michael Anthony | Mather-Lees |
2 |
| Suzanne Elizabeth | McKie |
1 |
| Fenella | Morris |
1 |
| Philip Curt Harold | Moser |
1 |
| Michael John | Mylonas |
1 |
| Paul Richard | Nicholls |
1 |
| Hugh Robert | Norbury |
1 |
| John Arthur | Odgers |
1 |
| Suzanne | Ornsby |
1 |
| Robert Michael | O’Sullivan |
2 |
| Nigel David | Poole |
1 |
| Andrew John | Post |
1 |
| Hugh Geoffrey | Preston |
1 |
| Dominique Jane | Rawley |
1 |
| Stuart Martin | Ritchie |
1 |
| Marc Humphreys | Rowlands |
1 |
| Rebecca Mary | Sabben-Clare |
1 |
| Nicola Jane | Shaw |
1 |
| Charles Isaac | Sherrard |
2 |
| Navjot | Sidhu |
2 |
| Andrew Duncan | Smith |
2 |
| Adrian | Speck |
1 |
| Piers Alistair | Stansfield |
1 |
| Howard Linton | Stevens |
1 & 2 |
| Rebecca | Stubbs |
1 |
| Anne Elizabeth | Studd |
1 |
| Rebecca | Trowler |
2 |
| John Alistair Pitt | Vater |
3 |
| Kieran Patrick | Vaughan |
2 |
| Andrew Nigel Malcolm | Wales |
1 |
| Steven John | Walker |
1 |
| Richard Beaumont | Waller |
1 |
| Andrew Ronald | Warnock |
1 |
| Rupert Miles | Warren |
1 |
| Pete Francis | Weatherby |
1 & 2 |
| Peter Lazenby | Wilcock |
2 |
| Claire Louise Margaret | Wills-Goldingham |
3 |
| David Frederick Harris | Wolfe |
1 |
We offer our congratulations to the new Queen’s Counsel on their appointments and look forward to working with them in the future.
