A new cohort of 107 silks has been appointed, including 25 women and three solicitor-advocates.
More QCs have been appointed this time than in recent rounds, but with proportionately fewer female silks among the numbers.
The new solicitor-advocate QCs are all arbitration specialists—Stephen Jagusch, partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; Nigel Rawding, partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; and Penny Madden, partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.
A further eight legal experts are to be appointed QC honoris causa: journalist Joshua Rozenberg; University of Birmingham civil procedure specialist Professor Ian Scott; international children’s cases specialist Anne-Marie Hutchinson; terrorism expert Professor Clive Walker; landlord and tenant law specialist Professor Sara Chandler, of South Bank University; and two King’s College London professors, constitutional expert Professor Robert Blackburn and international commercial law specialist Professor Jonathan Harris.
The rank will formally be bestowed at Westminster Hall on 22 February.
Lord Chancellor Michael Gove says: “I congratulate the 8 new Honorary Queen’s Counsel. Their appointments recognise the major contribution each has made to the law of England and Wales outside of practice in the courts, in some cases in careers spanning many years.”
