She helped establish the Bar Nursery Association in 2003 and was part of a working party seeking to encourage the Inns to address the retention of women. He grew up in Bristol and studied history and law at Cambridge University.Adam worked abroad before starting practice in the UK in 1997. 4. After school he spent 4 years competing as a racing cyclist before studying law at the University of Bristol. After school he spent 4 years competing as a racing cyclist before studying law at the University of Bristol.
Having studied engineering at Imperial College, Hugh became interested in the impact that law had on ordinary people. In practice he specialises in labour law, covering most areas including equal pay, working time, industrial action, judicial reviews, EU law and EHRC applications. Nicholas was the first in his family to go to university and the first lawyer in his family. Would take again. He is a member of the Bar in Tanzania where he has been appearing in the High Court and Court of Appeal on behalf of an international bank in a long-running power project financing dispute. He is the first in his family to go to university and the first to become a lawyer. He grew up in Coventry where he obtained a scholarship to a local grammar school before studying law at King’s College, London where he also took the Associateship of King’s College (AKC). He has a specialist trial practice in Employment and Sports’ law and appears regularly in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Born in Northampton, Tim attended the local comprehensive schools before studying law at the University of Nottingham. He moved to England where he qualified as a solicitor in 1987.Charles’ practice is in acting for banks, governments and companies in international financings, projects and deals with a particular focus on the energy sector, notably oil and gas. He practises in the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales and is recognised for his work across a number of areas including commercial, professional negligence, insolvency, banking and finance, partnership, general chancery, company and sports law.Hugh went to state school in North West London and was the first member of his family to go to university. He sits in the Rolls Building, in the Business and Property Courts of England & Wales.Michael Ford is a barrister and a professor at the University of Bristol. Professor in the Law department at University of Bristol. His cases in the European Court of Rights include ASLEF v United Kingdom and RMT v United Kingdom. He studied politics and modern history at Manchester University before qualifying for the Bar in 1993. He was Parliamentary Secretary at the Lord Chancellors’ Department for 2 years before losing his seat in the 2001 election.In 2002, David was appointed as Chair of the Service Authorities to the National Crime Squad and the National Criminal Intelligence Service and continued to work part-time as a barrister. He qualified as a solicitor with Slaughter and May in 1985, working on corporate and investment funds matters. He is also a Chair of the Competition Appeal Tribunal where he decides complex appeals from the decisions of competition and communications regulators and is an accredited mediator.Andrew has been called to the bar in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands.Sarah Morgan QC is a barrister.
He went on to study physics at Manchester University and converted to law at Exeter University.Called to the Bar in 1999, and appointed as Queen’s Counsel in 2014, Hugh is a Western Circuit barrister and Head of the Commercial Team at Guildhall Chambers. He studied modern languages at Cambridge University followed by a diploma in law at City University. Called to the Bar in 1995, he became an accredited mediator in 2000, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2013.Geraint has a commercial law practice with a focus on group action multi-party claims, product liability, life sciences, consumer law, environmental law, property damage, and insurance. Brought up in London, attending schools in both state and private sectors, he has lived much of his adult life in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. He has led in over 20 cases before the Supreme Court. After studying history at Oxford University, Geraint completed both a law conversion course at City University and bar school with the assistance of scholarships from Inner Temple. Michael Ford QC. He is a regular author and speaker on topics in these areas.
After pupillage in Wales, Richard moved to London where his practice has predominately focused on human rights and international law. He studied law at Manchester University and is the first in his family to undertake higher education.Richard qualified as a solicitor in 1994. He is on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s panel of specialist counsel, and acted for them in the UNISON case, where the Supreme Court held that employment tribunal fees were unlawful.Brought up in Singapore and Borneo, Caspar attended school in England. He is on the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s ‘A’ panel of specialist Counsel, and acted for them in judicial reviews challenging the introduction of employment tribunal fees (R (UNISON) v Lord Chancellor) and on the first appellate case on caste discrimination (Chandhok v Tirkey). The first lawyer in his family, he taught undergraduates part-time at Oxford University during pupillage and early years in practice.Called to the Bar in 1995, Stephen’s practice is focused on international commercial disputes, mostly in the Commercial Court or Chancery Division and international arbitration including in foreign courts, most recently in St Lucia, Antigua and Dubai.Tom Leech is a barrister and has been a partner in Herbert Smith Freehills LLP since 2014. He then worked as a Solicitor at Slaughter and May, did an MA in Socio-Legal Studies, and taught at the University of Manchester and, later, Birkbeck College, University of London.
He was the first generation of his family to graduate from university.