They include Rowena Collins Rice, who was Secretary to the Leveson Inquiry and has been Director-General of the Attorney General’s Office and Legal Secretary to the Law Officers since 2013, Adam Johnson QC, solicitor-advocate and partner at Herbert Smith, and Judge Mary Stacey, a judge at the Employment Appeal Tribunal since 2017.
The cohort of judges include family law barrister Robert Peel and crime specialist and Chief Magistrate for England and Wales Judge Emma Arbuthnot. Nine of the appointees are QCs―intellectual property silk Richard Meade, EU and competition law silk Kelyn Bacon, criminal silk Mark Wall, public law silk Charles Bourne, clinical negligence silk Nigel Poole, commercial silks Neil Calver and Michael Green and Naomi Ellenbogen, an equal pay specialist.
