header-logo header-logo

LCJ Carr’s first High Court cohort

06 December 2023
Issue: 8052 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
printer mail-detail
Eleven Deputy High Court judges have been appointed for a six-year term by Lady Chief Justice Sue Carr

The cohort includes two solicitors— Francesca Kaye, a Chancery Master and former partner at Russell-Cooke, and David Stone, intellectual property partner at Allen & Overy.

Law Society president Nick Emmerson said: ‘Their promotion will encourage solicitors with judicial aspirations that there need be no limits to their ambition.’

The others are HHJ Carolyn Hilder, senior judge, Court of Protection, and chancery and commercial silks Lance Ashworth KC, Serle Court, and Andrew Twigger KC, Maitland Chambers.

Two commercial silks from 7 King’s Bench Walk were appointed, David Bailey KC and Peter MacDonald Eggers KC. Also celebrating appointment were family law silks Julia Cheetham KC, of Deans Court Chambers, and Richard Todd KC, of 1 Hare Court; public and policing silk Debra Powell KC, of Serjeants’ Inn; and public and community care silk Victoria Butler-Cole KC, of 39 Essex Chambers.

Issue: 8052 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
printer mail-details

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Gilson Gray—Linda Pope

Partner joins family law team inLondon

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Jackson Lees Group—five promotions

Private client division announces five new partners

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Taylor Wessing—Max Millington

Banking and finance team welcomes partner in London

NEWS
The landmark Supreme Court’s decision in Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd—along with Rukhadze v Recovery Partners—redefine fiduciary duties in commercial fraud. Writing in NLJ this week, Mary Young of Kingsley Napley analyses the implications of the rulings
Barristers Ben Keith of 5 St Andrew’s Hill and Rhys Davies of Temple Garden Chambers use the arrest of Simon Leviev—the so-called Tinder Swindler—to explore the realities of Interpol red notices, in this week's NLJ
Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] has upended assumptions about who may conduct litigation, warn Kevin Latham and Fraser Barnstaple of Kings Chambers in this week's NLJ. But is it as catastrophic as first feared?
Lord Sales has been appointed to become the Deputy President of the Supreme Court after Lord Hodge retires at the end of the year
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are reportedly in the firing line in Chancellor Rachel Reeves upcoming Autumn budget
back-to-top-scroll