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Queen's Counsel honoris causa

Professor John Rason Spencer
Professor John Stephen Bell
Professor Andrew Stephen Burrows

  1. Professor John Rason Spencer is currently a Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. He has achieved great distinction in his academic career, in particular in the fields of criminal procedure and evidence, tort and contract, comparative law, medical and criminal law. He is also an Acting Director of the Faculty's Centre for European Studies and an Honorary Consultant to NSPCC.

  2. Professor John Stephen Bell is currently a Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge. He has achieved great distinction in his academic career, in particular in the fields of comparative, public and European Law.

  3. Professor Andrew Stephen Burrows is currently Norton Rose Professor of Commercial and Financial Law and Fellow of St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. His main academic achievements are in tort, contract, restitution, commercial law and law reform. He is also a Recorder.

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Queen's Counsel (reads down in order of seniority)

The Inn of call is indicated after each candidate's name:

G - Gray's Inn
I - Inner Temple
L - Lincoln's Inn
M - Middle Temple

Anthony John Seys Llewellyn (G)
Antony Nigel Caton Chinn (M)
David Beverley Williams (M)
Margaret Osborne Bickford-Smith (I)
Robert Henry Joy McCracken (I) and (L)
Michael John Brompton (M)
Jonathan Chadwick Turner (G)
Andrew Allan Hogarth (L)
James Alexander Francis Thom (M)
Philip Alexander Shepherd (G)
Robert Andrew Fortune (M)
Gregory Bull (I)
Brendan Godfrey Eamonn Finucane (M)
Philip Martyn Bartle (M)
Rodney Mellor Maples Jameson (M)
John Raymund Vincent McDermott (G)
Allan Peter Gore (M)
Martin Leslie Arthur Hicks (I)
Nicholas Somerset Haggan (M)
Carey Ann Johnston (M)
Jeremy Spencer Gold (M)
Mark Henry Lomas (M)
Richard John Byerley Parkes (G)
Thomas William Maxwell Bayliss (I)
Geoffrey Williams (Solicitor)
Andrew Campbell-Tiech (I)
Sally Elizabeth Mary Cahill (G)
Colin Brownlie McCaul (G)
Timothy David Roberts (G)
Graham Robert Trembath (M)
James Edward Flynn (M)
Jeremy Nigel Donne RD (M)
Lawrence West (G)
Stephen Michael Adrian Kamlish (G)
Philip Mark Pelling (M)
Ian Derek Pringle (G)
Paul Huw Thomas (G)
Hugh Jonathan Furness (G)
Judith May Rowe (G)
Martin Benedict Spencer (I)
Timothy John Mousley (M)
James Michael Burbidge (L)
Stephen John Suttle (G)
Timothy John Lyons (I) and (L)
Michael Laurence Chambers (L)
Vincent William Coughlin (M)
Jonathan Simon Fisher (G)
Andrew John Lydiard (I)
Francis Benedict William Tregear (M)
Simon Coleridge Russell Flint (I)
Richard Michael Barraclough (I)
Peter Ramsay Main (I)
John Richard Davies (M)
David Eric Manley (I)
Rupert John Anderson (I)
Graham Stephen Read (G)
Andrew Charles Gordon Tait (I)
Neil Flewitt (M)
Gareth David Rees (G)
Richard Carver Wilson (L)
Mark Jeremy Templeman (M) and (L)
Simon Trevor Monty (M)
Michael John Humphries (I)
John McCaughran (G)
Charles Geoffrey Cox (M)
Lucy Morgan Theis (G)
David Timothy Nelson Hart (M)
Ian Pennicott (M)
Nicholas Arthur Dean (L)
Simon Malcolm Dermot Jackson (G)
Jeremy Sydney Dein (M)
Andrew Gwyn Menary (I)
David Guy Westcott (M)
Guy Cuthbert Charles Fetherstonhaugh (I)
Giles William Jeremy Goodfellow (M)
Richard Taras Kovalesky (G)
William John Hirons Harbage (M)
Jane Carole Humphreys (M)
Miranda Jayne Moore (L)
Simon Henry Farrell (L)
Sally Margaret Howes (M)
Karim Shakir Khalil (L)
Alan Gourgey (L)
James Richard Kessler (G)
John Alexander McGhee (L)
Simon Wheldon Taylor (M)
Malcolm Davis-White (M)
Thomas Edward Benjamin Weitzman (G)
Robert David Murray Sears (M)
Adam Timothy Downs Fenton (I)
Adrian Mark Hopkins (L)
David Philip Joseph (M)
Gulam Abbas Lakha (I)
Jonathan Simon Seitler (I)
Luke Arthur Parsons (I)
Richard Lester Millett (L)
Stephen William Scott Cobb (I)
Ewan Alan McQuater (M)
Andrew John Murray Spink (M)
Andrew Stephen Goddard (I)
Conor Quigley (G)
Philippe Joseph Sands (M)
Avtar Amarjit Singh Khangure (G)
Ian William Dove (I)
David Simon Myerson (M)
Joseph Smouha (M)
Richard Andrew Snowden (L)
Allan Alexander Cameron (I)
Nigel Dyson Giffin (I)
Charles Robert Stephen Graham (M)
Russell James Harris (G)
Charles Bëar (L)
Sue Lascelles Carr (I)
Philip Scott Marshall (L)
Timothy Miles Fancourt (L)
Daniel Sakyi Alexander (M)
Bankim Thanki (M)
Daniel Lincoln Bethlehem (M)
Thomas Jeremy Morgan (M)
Fedelis Hilary Izuka Oditah (L)
Michael Tselentis (G)

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Statistical Information

The following table gives statistical information about this and previous years' competitions:

 

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001 2002
2003

 

Total Applicants:

539 492 488 500 511 553 506 456 429
394

Total Awards:

(excl. Honorary Silk)
77 71 66 68 60 69 78 77 113
121

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Male Applicants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applicants:

496
450
448
459
465
504
453
405
385
355

Awards:

68
63
62
63
50
60
68
67
101
112

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Female Applicants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applicants:

43
42
40
41
46
49
53
51
44
39

Awards:

9
8
4
5
10
9
10
10
12
9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applicants from an ethnic minority background

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applicants:

11
12
14
12
18
30
24
19
19
23

Awards:

1
1
1
1
4
5
3
3
7
7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Solicitor Applicants

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applicants:

 

 

5
6
7
9
6
12
8
10

Awards:

 

 

0
2
1
1
0
1
2
1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Percentage of applicants granted the award of Queen's Counsel

 

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001 2002
2003
                   

Total:

14.3
14.4
13.5
13.6
11.74
12.48
15.4
16.9
26.3
30.7

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Male:

13.7
14.0
13.8
13.7
10.75
11.90
15.01
16.5
26.2
31.5

Female:

21.0
19.0
10.0
12.2
21.74
18.36
18.86
19.6
27.2
23.1

Non-Ethnic:

14.4
14.6
13.7
13.7
11.36
12.24
14.91
16.9
25.8
30.7

Ethnic Minorities:

9.1
8.3
7.1
8.3
22.22
16.67
12.48
15.8
36.8
30.4

Solicitors:

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0
33.3
14.28
11.1
0
8.3
25.0
10.0
                   
Number of Honorary Silk awards:

 

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001 2002
2003
                   
Honorary Silk:
4
3
6
8
3
3
4
2
4
3
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Earnings

In his Scrutiny of the Appointment Processes of Judges and Queen's Counsel, Sir Leonard Peach recommended that: 'a table of fees for successful candidates .. be published annually'. The table below is published in fulfilment of this recommendation.

Applicants are asked to declare their earnings for each of the previous three completed financial years. The average of these three figures was calculated for each applicant, and these averages analysed to generate the figures in this table:

       

All applicants

Unsuccessful applicants

Successful applicants

Maximum

£684,667
£566,000
£684,667

3rd quartile

£247,167
£219,333
£309,667

2nd quartile

£179,834
£167,667
£216,333

1st quartile

£130,667
£123,333
£150,667

Minimum

£56,667
£56,667
£74,667

Average

£205,247
£187,063
£246,274

 


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