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.