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Lord Chancellor's Department
Press Notice
19 April 2000

 

QUEEN'S COUNSEL 2000

 

Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of four Queen's Counsel honoris causa and 78 new Queen's Counsel. The full list is given below.

This year there were 506 applications for Silk. There were 53 applications from women (10.5%), 24 from ethnic minority lawyers (4.7%) and six from solicitors (1.2%).

Of the 78 appointed (15.42% of all applicants), ten are women (18.87% of female applicants) and three are from an ethnic minority (12.50% of ethnic minority applicants).

Last year, the comparable figures were that 553 applied. Of the 69 appointed (12.48% of all applicants), nine were women (18.36% of all female applicants), five were from an ethnic minority background (16.67% of ethnic minority applicants) and one was a solicitor (11.11% of all solicitor applicants).

QUEEN'S COUNSEL honoris causa

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, David Eryl Corbet Yale FBA, Professor Roger Grahame Hood CBE FBA, Professor Paul Philip Craig FBA

QUEEN'S COUNSEL
(read down in order of seniority)

Nigel John Seed (I), Andrew John Bright (M), Frank Peter Hinks (L), Toby Julien Anderson Hooper (I), Robert Martin James Meeke (G), Stephen John Hopkins (G), John Mark Tallon (M), Andrew Allen Radcliffe (M), Vera Baird (G), David Eric Griffith-Jones (M), John Martin Male (L), Richard Michael de Lacy (M), Philip Laurence Parker (M), James Kenneth Pickup (G), Nigel Hamilton Sweeney (M), Philip Alec Jackson Katz (M), Roger Martin Thomas (I), David George Patrick Turner (G), Richard John Carey-Hughes (G), Edward Nicholas Jenkins (M), Jeremy Mark Nicholson (N), David Michael Pittaway (I), Stephen Charles Rubin (M), Edward Thomas Henry Teague (I), Michael Francis Antony Borrelli (M), Laurence James West-Knights (G), Christopher John Vosper (M), Gerard James Martin (M), Kevin Charles de Haan (I), Nicholas Charles Wilson Campbell (I), David Anthony Farrell (I), Peter Arthur Brian Jackson (I), Thomas Andrew Kelly (L), John Kelsey-Fry (G), Andrew John Gregory Moylan (I), Beverley Ann Macnaughton Lang (I), David John Mark Green (I), Ann Louise Cotcher (M), Laurens Francois Fransman (M), James Vernon Watson (M), Jane Elizabeth Mackay Miller (I), Martin Howard Bowdery (I), Jan Michael Andrew Luba (M), Alistair Neil MacDonald (G), John Graham Hobson (I), David Wallis Mildon (M), Andrew Bruce Stafford (M), Simon Axel Robin Taube (M), Neil Gerald Alexander King (I), Jeremy William Richardson (I), Paul Stuart Rees (G), John Ryder (I), Rachel Rennie Virginia Ann Brand (G), Gavin James Millar (L), Marcus Louis Taverner (G), Patrick John Field (G), Sasha Wass (G), Michael James Furness (L), Stephen Murray Hofmeyr (G), Simon Piers Nicholas Rainey (L), Selwyn Irving Bloch (M), Manjit Singh Gill (G), Yvonne Anne Coen (L), Adrian Charles Edmund Lynch (G), Stephen Rees Davies (G), Christopher Patrick Hancock (M), Jerome Lynch (L), Tim Owen (M), Susan Rachel Prevezer (I), John Stephen Smith (M), David John Elvin (M), Catharine Anne Otton-Goulder (L), Paul Anthony Goulding (M), Elizabeth Sian Jones (M), Richard David Arnold (M), Winston Ronald O'Sullivan Hunter (L), Robin Mark Dicker (M), Michael Benedict Emmerson (M).

The Inn of call is indicated after each candidate's name:

G-Gray's Inn; I-Inner Temple; L-Lincoln's Inn; M-Middle Temple

 

Notes for Editors

 
The following table gives statistical information about this and
previous years' competitions:
 
                       1993  1994  1995  1996  1997  1998  1999  2000
Number of Applicants
 
Total Applicants        472   539   492   488   500   511   553   506
Awards (ex. Hon Silk)    70    77    71    66    68    60    69    78
 
Male Applicants
Applicants              435   496   450   448   459   465   504   453
Awards                   64    68    63    62    63    50    60    68
 
Female Applicants
Applicants               37    43    42    40    41    46    49    53
Awards                    6     9     8     4     5    10     9    10
 
Applicants from an 
ethnic minority background
Applicants               14    11    12    14    12    18    30    24
Awards                    1     1     1     1     1     4     5     3
 
Solicitor Applicants
Applicants                0     0     0     5     6     7     9     6
Awards                    0     0     0     0     2     1     1     0
 
% of Applicants granted silk
 
Total                 14.83 14.29 14.43 13.52 13.60 11.74 12.48 15.42
 
Male                  14.71 13.71 14.00 13.84 13.73 10.75 11.90 15.01
Female                16.21 20.93 19.05 10.00 12.20 21.74 18.36 18.87
 
Ethnic Minority        7.14  9.09  8.33  7.14  8.33 22.22 16.67 12.50
Non-Ethnic Minority   15.07 14.39 14.58 13.71 13.73 11.36 12.24 15.56
 
Honorary Silk awards      7     4     3     6     8     3     3     4
Earnings In his Scrutiny of the Appointment Processes of Judges and Queen's Counsel, Sir Leonard Peach recommended that: 'a table of fees for successful candidates...be published annually.' The table below is published in fulfilment of this recommendation. Applicants are asked to declare their earnings for each of the previous three completed financial years. The average of these three figures was calculated for each applicant, and these averages analysed to generate the figures given in the table. 
 
               All applicants     Unsuccessful        Successful 
                                  applicants          applicants
Maximum           £634,000         £634,000            £570,667
3rd quartile      £211,000         £197,000            £253,250
2nd quartile      £149,942         £145,990            £190,000
1st quartile      £114,667         £108,083            £136,083
Minimum            £40,667          £40,667             £77,667
 
Average           £172,971        £165,587            £213,110
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