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Next Bar Council vice chair appointed

21 May 2025
Issue: 8117 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Crown Prosecution Service silk Heidi Stonecliffe KC has been elected as the next Bar Council vice chair

Stonecliffe will be the first employed barrister to take up the post in the Bar Council’s 132-year history. She was called to the Bar in 1996, took silk in 2020, and specialises in complex multi-defendant organised crime and homicide trials.

Last year, she chaired the Bar Council’s employed barristers’ committee. She has a particular interest in barrister wellbeing and supporting the next generation at the Bar.

Stonecliffe said: ‘At a critical time in the Bar’s history, I will continue the vital work already ongoing to resist attacks on the right to trial by jury and the ability of all members of society to access justice where it is needed, particularly amongst the most vulnerable.’

She will take office in January 2026 alongside chair Kirsty Brimelow KC, Doughty Street, and treasurer Lucinda Orr, partner at Enyo Law.

Issue: 8117 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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