In addition to Professor Nicola Padfield's appointment as a QC Honoris Causa, the Faculty also warmly welcomes the appointment of a large number of its graduates as Queen's Counsel.
We congratulate Dr Charles Harpum on becoming a Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa. Nominated by the Chancery Bar Association, Dr Harpum was formerly a University Lecturer in Law, Fellow of Downing College (1977-2001) and Emeritus Fellow (2001-). He was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales (1994-2001) and is at Falcon Chambers.
The Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony, where the rank will formally be bestowed upon successful applicants, at Westminster Hall on 26 February 2018.
Further details are available from the Ministry of Justice website. The Cambridge graduates taking silk are as follows:
Alumn | Practice | Chambers | College |
Nicholas Allen | Family | Emmanuel | |
Gregory Banner | Civil | Trinity Hall | |
Benet Brandreth | Civil | Magdalene | |
James Brocklebank | Civil | Pembroke | |
Sean Brunton | Criminal | Christ's College | |
Catherine Callaghan | Civil | Gonville and Caius | |
Sarah Crowther | Civil | St John's | |
Thomas Croxford | Civil | Clare | |
Edward Cumming | Civil | Downing | |
Lyndsey de Mestre | Civil | Downing | |
Julian Greenhill | Civil | Peterhouse | |
George Hayman | Civil | Downing | |
Edward Henry | Criminal | Jesus | |
Jonathan Holl-Allen | Civil | Corpus Christi | |
Barnaby Jameson | Criminal | Magdalene | |
Samantha King | Family | Selwyn | |
Andrew Kinnier | Civil | Sidney Sussex | |
Yash Kulkarni | Civil | Selwyn | |
Mary Loram | Criminal | Sidney Sussex | |
Thomas Macey-Dare | Civil | Trinity | |
Robert Marven | Civil | Trinity | |
Jern-Fei Ng | Civil | Trinity | |
Parishil Patel | Civil | St John's | |
Nicola Ruston | Civil | St John's | |
Nicolas Saunders | Civil | Magdalene | |
Mark Sefton | Civil | Trinity | |
Jonathan Selby | Civil | St Catharine's | |
Paul Sinclair | Civil | Gonville and Caius | |
Andrew Singer | Civil | Fitzwilliam | |
Ian Wilson | Civil | Corpus Christi | |
Eliot Woolf | Civil | Robinson | |
Nicolas Yates | Family | Trinity |