The Faculty warmly congratulates the many Cambridge alumni also appointed as Queen's Counsel in 2017, in addition to the Honorary award to Professor Graham Virgo.
The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall on 13 February 2017.
Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website. The Cambridge graduates taking silk are as follows:
Alumn | Practice | Chambers | College |
Catherine Addy | Civil | Girton | |
Gerard Boyle | Civil & Criminal | Trinity Hall | |
Richard Brent | Civil | Peterhouse | |
Hannah Brown | Civil | Queens' | |
Gideon Cammerman | Criminal | Fitzwilliam | |
Simon Colton | Civil | Trinity Hall | |
Thomas Cosgrove | Civil | Sidney Sussex | |
James Counsell | Civil | Magdalene | |
Edward Davies | Civil | Peterhouse | |
Edward Devereux | Family | Peterhouse | |
David Elias | Criminal | St Catharine's | |
Caoilfhionn Gallagher | Civil | Gonville & Caius | |
Katherine Grange | Civil | Queens' | |
Dakis Hagen | Civil & Family | Peterhouse | |
Jack Hallam | Criminal | Corpus Christi | |
Christopher Heather | Civil | Girton | |
Penelope Howe | Family | Queens' | |
Ben Jaffey | Civil | St Catharine's | |
Adam Johnson | Civil | Churchill | |
Geoffrey Kingscote | Family | Trinity Hall | |
Marie Kinsler | Civil, Criminal, | Gonville & Caius | |
Alison MacDonald | Civil & Criminal | Queens' | |
Max Mallin | Civil | Sidney Sussex | |
Stephen Midwinter | Civil | Fitzwilliam | |
Jonathan Moffett | Civil | Girton | |
Andrew Morgan | Civil | Jesus | |
Akash Nawbatt | Civil | Jesus | |
Gareth Patterson | Criminal | Queens' | |
Matthew Phillips | Civil | St Catharine's | |
Debra Powell | Civil | Darwin | |
Matthew Reed | Civil | King's | |
Fiona Scolding | Civil | Downing | |
Andrew Tabachnik | Civil | Pembroke | |
Robert-Jan Temmink | Civil | Trinity | |
Michael Young | Civil | Sidney Sussex | |
Adam Zellick | Civil | Gonville & Caius |