{"id":2361,"date":"2016-01-11T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2016-01-11T17:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:00:24","slug":"middle-temple-announces-32-new-qcs-for-2015-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/11\/middle-temple-announces-32-new-qcs-for-2015-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle Temple announces 32 new QCs for 2015-2016!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today I saw on Facebook (and then on the Middle Temple <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middletemple.org.uk\/news\/32-middle-templars-appointed-new-queens-counsel-2015-2016-competition\">website<\/a>) that today 32 Middle Templars have been appointed as Queen&#8217;s Counsel in the 2015-16 competition, there were 107 in total.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2362\"><img src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20300%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load alignnone size-medium wp-image-2362\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-300x247.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-11 at 16.51.26\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-768x632.png 768w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-500x411.png 500w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26.png 968w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2362\" src=\"http:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-300x247.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-11 at 16.51.26\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-768x632.png 768w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26-500x411.png 500w, https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Screen-Shot-2016-01-11-at-16.51.26.png 968w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you that don&#8217;t know Queen&#8217;s Counsel (QC&#8217;s) are particularly eminent lawyers (mostly barristers) appointed by letters patent to be one of Her Majesty&#8217;s Counsel learned in the law. As members wear silk gowns of a particular design, the award of Queen&#8217;s Counsel is known informally as taking silk, and therefore QCs are often colloquially called silks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These appointments are made by Her Majesty The Queen on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, Michael Gove MP, following consideration by the independent Queen\u2019s Counsel Selection Panel.<\/p>\n<p>The list of Middle Templars, in order of seniority, is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kim\u00a0Franklin<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0James Michael Scott\u00a0Ramsden<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Paul David\u00a0Ozin<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Andrew John\u00a0Moran<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Jonathan Charles\u00a0Ashley-Norman<\/p>\n<p>Miss\u00a0Sarah Joanne\u00a0Lee<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Michael Joseph\u00a0Ivers<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Richard Julian Henshaw\u00a0Edwards<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Adam John\u00a0Weitzman<\/p>\n<p>Ms\u00a0Caroline Mary\u00a0Shea<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Daniel Nicholas\u00a0Tatton-Brown<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Aidan\u00a0Vine<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Oliver Edwin James\u00a0Glasgow<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Thomas\u00a0Moody-Stuart<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Tobias Augustine William\u00a0Riley-Smith<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Giles Francis Sacheveral\u00a0Cockings<\/p>\n<p>Miss\u00a0Clodagh Maria\u00a0Bradley<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Richard Colin\u00a0Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Benjamin Roger\u00a0Collins<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0James\u00a0Ewins<\/p>\n<p>Ms\u00a0Bridget Maura\u00a0Dolan<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Thomas Richard\u00a0Hinchliffe<\/p>\n<p>Ms\u00a0Kama Louise\u00a0Melly<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Peter\u00a0Skelton<\/p>\n<p>Mrs\u00a0Clare Adele\u00a0Sibson<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0David Ian\u00a0Head<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Salim Abdool Hamid\u00a0Moollan<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Daniel Benjamin\u00a0Squires<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Brian Anthony\u00a0Kennelly<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Guy Luke\u00a0Vassall-Adams<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Alexander Henry Spencer\u00a0Booth<\/p>\n<p>Mr\u00a0Thomas\u00a0Plewman<\/p>\n<p>For other Middle Temple news and posts check out:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.middletemple.org.uk\">http:\/\/www.middletemple.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today I saw on Facebook (and then on the Middle Temple website) that today 32 Middle Templars have been appointed as Queen&#8217;s Counsel in the 2015-16 competition, there were 107 in total. For those of you that don&#8217;t know Queen&#8217;s Counsel (QC&#8217;s) are particularly eminent lawyers (mostly barristers) appointed by letters patent to be one of Her Majesty&#8217;s Counsel learned in the law. As members wear silk gowns of a particular design, the award of Queen&#8217;s Counsel is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[26,23],"tags":[17,33,32,31,34],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"default","automationSources":{"useContentSentences":true,"useSocialTemplates":true,"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"includedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawyerinthemaking.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}