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…the current law results in divorce Under the new law, spouses will petitions painting often inaccurate be able to apply for a divorce on descriptions of why and how a the ground that their marriage has marriage broke down. irretrievably broken down, without having to establish one of the 1978, but to no avail. What is even and conflict increase. This is not in the aforesaid statutory facts in support. more troubling is that these 27 children’s best interests, and further The antiquated and absurd right to examples did not pass the threshold. facilitates the use of children as contest a divorce has been removed. What entitled the state to intervene pawns, not to mention the negative As such, spouses will no longer in the personal lives of parties such impact on spousal mental health. be able to trap their partner by that they can divorce only when contesting the divorce, which has ‘good enough’ reasons are provided, Further, the current law results in allowed domestic abusive spouses to or when they are forced to wait years? divorce petitions painting often exert further coercive control on their inaccurate descriptions of why and partner. Once the decision has been made how a marriage broke down. What to end a marriage time is of the constitutes ‘unreasonable’ behaviour The Act signifies positive reform, essence. It is imperative that a is not clear to many litigants, and will reduce conflict and costs spouse is able to plan for their future, especially unrepresented litigants. for divorcing spouses by removing financially and emotionally, and Not only is this contrary to the rule the need to negotiate the basis of move on with their life. The current of law (since it is not intelligible, the petition and dealing with cross- law does not facilitate this, unless clear nor predictable), but it risks the petitions. It will not allow ‘quickie adultery, unreasonable behaviour inflation of allegations, or simply the divorces’, as suggested by some or desertion is proven. Upon these use of more extreme examples of critics. It has introduced a notification facts being alleged, the first roll of ‘unreasonable’ behaviour in order to system, where the applicant will have the blame-game dice takes place. cross the threshold. to wait a six-month notice period At this point, things are said or before the divorce is finalised. alleged which cannot be taken The new law back, and tensions rise. As such, Interestingly, both spouses will the discussions surrounding the The Lord Chancellor and Secretary be able to apply for the divorce division of matrimonial assets and the of State for Justice, Robert Buckland jointly, should they wish, which is arrangements for children take place QC, indicated to MPs that the Act symbolic in and of itself; it shows against a backdrop of animosity and will come into force in Autumn 2021. that these reforms are designed are often derailed. Automatically, co- This is to allow time for the details of to make divorce kinder rather than operation is reduced whilst confusion the rules, court forms and the online easier. However, arguably, the portal to be completed. notice period should begin once the divorce application is received, rather than when it is applied for. This would ensure that each spouse is on an equal footing, especially where the application is not made jointly. A further modernisation is the language. The terms Decree Nisi and Decree Absolute will soon be consigned to history and removed from the statute books; in their place will be ‘conditional order’ and ‘final order’. It is sincerely hoped that the Act will affect lasting change, and will finally bring marriage law into the 21st Century. Canada established no-fault divorce in 1968, with Sweden following in 1973 (the same year as the enactment of the MCA) and Australia in 1975. Family lawyers provide a service to navigate through and reduce conflict for their clients. Unfortunately, the current legal framework in England and Wales is incompatible with this. Thankfully, the end of the intrusive investigative regime and the implementation of no-fault divorce is finally on the horizon. 2020 Middle Templar 99

TALK TO SPOT RACHEL KRYS Talk to Spot do anything else with it. If they want, they can use the record to support The online tool to tackle inappropriate behaviour, a complaint about the incident. A bullying & harassment at the Bar complaint can go to the relevant chambers, employer, regulator and/ Rachel Krys has been an equality and human rights or the Bar Council. In the case of campaigner for more than two decades. She was co-Director criminal behaviour, the record can be of the End Violence Against Women Coalition and is Chair used to help report an incident to the of Women for Refugee Women. She has worked with large police. employers to tackle discrimination and is a consultant on equality and diversity for the Bar Council. If permission is given, the record can be sent directly to the diversity and There is no place for bullying, makes you feel uncomfortable. It inclusion team at the Bar Council. harassment or discrimination at the can make us feel very alone when This can be done completely Bar, but it’s clear the profession is we think we’re the only one who it anonymously and enables the team not immune. Perhaps in response to is happening to and we might be to provide additional support and movements like #MeToo and other overreacting. So, when something collect information about what is campaigns highlighting bullying happens which does not feel right, or happening where. The point is it is and harassment, there has been an makes us feel uncomfortable or hurts completely up to the individual what increase in the number of people us, it can be hard to know who to tell they do with the information and how reporting inappropriate behaviours. or what to do. it is used. But we know this is the tip of the iceberg and many incidents go That’s where Talk to Spot comes in Building a picture of unreported and unchallenged. This is harassment at the Bar a serious concern because this sort of Talk to Spot is a completely secure behaviour blights careers and creates website, designed in the US but Talk to Spot was launched last year misery for some of our most talented adapted for the Bar, to record and and has been used by people from people. report inappropriate behaviour. It across the Bar to report incidents of allows someone to make a record of judicial bullying, sexual harassment We also know that it is very hard exactly what happened, who did it, by other barristers and clients, to call out bullying, harassment or who saw it, where it happened and and the bullying of pupils. On discrimination when it happens, when. It is simple to use and when one particularly busy evening in not least because the behaviours the information has been entered, December, the team received three themselves undermine confidence the platform generates a date separate reports of inappropriate and are an abuse of power in a stamped contemporaneous record of behaviour. These reports are enabling profession where reputation and the incident. No one else will see it. the team to reach any individual who loyalty matter. It belongs to the person who created wants support as well as to build a the record. picture of what is happening where It can be difficult to challenge and identify if there are patterns harassment when the person doing What happens next is up which can be interrupted. the harassing is more senior. It can to the individual feel impossible to tell the person Calling out inappropriate who you rely on for work that their Once the record has been created, behaviour when we see it behaviour is inappropriate or it can simply stay with the individual so that they have all the information Talk to Spot can also be used to in one place – they do not have to make third party reports, so if you witness an incident or inappropriate behaviour you can make a record of it. This record can then be reported to the relevant authorities or sent to the team at the Bar Council. Again, these reports can be made anonymously and do not have to go any further. If something happens at the Bar and you want to report it, or just make a record of it on Talk to Spot – www.barcouncil.org.uk/support- for-barristers/equality-diversity-and- inclusion/talk-to-spot. Alongside the Talk to Spot App, the Bar Council provides confidential ethics and harassment helplines, training and support for members and chambers and research and guidance on all aspects of equality and diversity – www.barcouncil.org. uk/support-for-barristers/equality- diversity-and-inclusion 100 2020 Middle Templar

BECOMING A BARRISTER Becoming a Barrister The path to the Bar has always been complex and challenging. In Hilary 2020, an exhibition was mounted in the Inn’s Library - Becoming a Barrister: Overcoming Barriers on the Path to the Bar. This explored some of the challenges faced by aspiring barristers over the centuries, such as religion, ethnicity, finances, social status, disability and educational background – and told the stories of some of the incredible individuals who have overcome these barriers on the path to the Bar. Following the opening of the exhibition, a campaign was outdoor clerk to a member of the Middle Temple. launched – Becoming a Barrister: What’s Your Story? – inviting Middle Templars to submit the stories of their own During my time at the Bar I became a pupil supervisor and paths to the Bar and beyond, in their own words. Each was approved to train members of my chambers in Direct of these stories has been preserved in the Inn’s Archive Access. I judged a number of Mooting competitions, for posterity. A handful of these fascinating, unique and and now in retirement I am involved in the Bar mentoring illuminating accounts have been reproduced here. schemes. Frank Winslett I was above average age when I was Called to the Bar, but I still faced many of the challenges that younger When I left secondary school aspiring barristers face. Would I get work, could I pay my in 1965 without any formal bills, would I be taken on as a tenant? Would I be looked qualifications I had no idea that upon differently, having come from the other side? I did when I retired some 53 years later have moments when I wondered if coming to the Bar was I would be dual qualified as a the right move, but, looking back, it certainly was, and solicitor and barrister. I then lived made even more so by fellow members of the Bar and my on a South West London Council chambers. estate and nearest you came to the law was when the local police drove round. Back in the Darshinee Choytah sixties the legal profession was predominantly white male and public school. So different today, and in my opinion When I was born, in Mauritius, my the profession is far the better for it. parents were in a state of extreme poverty, my working father drawing As an outdoor clerk I would sit behind counsel when it a meagre salary and my mother a would have been a mortal sin for solicitors not to send housewife. My mother sometimes someone along. I wondered at those bewigged barristers did not even have food to feed getting up in front of – dare I say – some disagreeable herself when she was pregnant. I judges, to put their arguments, not realising some years was not even six months old when later it would be me. I was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis, and the doctors were pessimistic about my future. Wheezing, fever and After realising I could not stay in the profession unless I coughs became the routine of my childhood instead obtained qualifications, I started out on the road to qualify of laughter, cooing and the sound of toys. When I was as a solicitor. I was admitted in 1984. To complete my finals growing up, we were still burdened by financial difficulties; I gave up work although I had 3 children and a mortgage – I witnessed my father getting angry at the drop of a pin. it was all worthwhile in the end. Due to the fear of chronic bronchitis, my mother did not allow me to have friends outside, get in contact with dust I always had a good working relationship with members and eat ice cream like others. I barely had any toys or dolls. of the Bar and up until 1993 would appear in the Crown I was a lonely and sad child. Court in a limited capacity. I acquired Higher Rights in 1994 and started to conduct jury trials. I was aware that some The turning point was when my mother started buying members of the Bar then did not welcome HCAs, but that story books for me to read. I developed a sudden love of was not my experience. looking at the pictures and reading the stories aloud. My mother was determined to send me to school and to teach The circle was complete in 2004 when it was time for me to me. At school, I was still not like the ‘normal’ children. take the plunge and leave my reasonably secure position Teachers were cautious around me and I fell sick basically in a firm of solicitors and be Called to the Bar. My Call every week. But my mother taught me never to give up, night was in March 2004. I was the eldest person being a lesson I have not forgotten. There came a time when Called that night, at 53, and it was a proud moment for me my little sister was born, my father got another job and, and my family. except for my medical vulnerability, I stopped struggling that much. My first appearance at Lewes Crown Court as a member of the Bar, I remember so well. Fellow counsel welcomed In Mauritius, the legal profession is still quite a restricted me, and the judge welcomed me to the Bar in open court. and closed circle where the majority of new entrants are It had been a long road and at times challenging from the children of those already practising. I experienced this 2020 Middle Templar 101

during mini-pupillage when I saw how easily the children His words still resonate in my ears: ‘If you are good of those lawyers were trained and preferred. I came from enough, you are good enough and let no one tell you a non-legal background and was the first person in the otherwise’. Indeed! I passed my BPTC exams at the first family to have chosen law and gone to university; I had to attempt with an overall grade of Very Competent. This figure it out by myself. I did not have the same academic success remains my proudest yet humblest. and practical legal knowledge as other students. I was never advised or guided. I just had to trust myself, keep Today, pupillage brings its own struggles. Faced with moving and do my best. I realised quite early that only reality, I realise that the legal profession is very male- my dedication, love for law and hard work could get me a dominated and a closed circle with children perpetuating place within the profession: I had nothing and no one else the legal background of their families. As a woman, my to rely on. ambition puts many men off. Instead of being proud of me, my relatives warn me that law is not the right However, there came a point where I felt my only strengths profession for a woman. When I speak on domestic – dedication, passion for law and hard work – falter: when violence and mental health issues, people tag me as a I failed the Mauritius Law Practitioners’ Vocational Course ‘radical feminist’. I get confused as to how I will balance (equivalent to the BPTC) thrice. Well-off parents and family and professional life later, while men do not have lawyers never opted for their children to study the Bar to worry. I wonder if my ambition, vision and dreams will Course in Mauritius, a system which attracted criticism from get sacrificed in the future. At the same time, I have to practitioners, academics, students and lecturers. Since my work harder to be recognised and to make my mark in father had to cater for the education of both my sister and this competitive and ruthless profession. Those whose I, studying the BPTC in the UK could not be my first choice. surnames are already known are more relaxed. But, as I had no choice but to study the Bar in Mauritius. my pupil master says, ‘Nobody will invite you into the profession. You will have to barge in’. This is exactly what After my first failure, I bounced back by working harder, I aim to do as the first Barrister in my family and as an revising more and studying the syllabus in detail. The asthmatic middle-class woman: I will open the doors of the second and third failures, though, did not have the same profession and barge in, bringing my ambition, dedication, taste as the first. I felt as if my life had ended. My whole hard work and dreams. One thing I know is that I gave up purpose of life was over. My parents stopped trusting me. on myself once. There will never be another time, for I grew suicidal. I had no specific time to sleep or to wake. I my parents, teachers, psychologists, loved ones and my stopped feeling hungry. The sun stopped warming me up. own sake! I watched everyone go to work with a sense of purpose in their lives. I stopped going out. I was an adult without a Peter Davies job, success, income or sense of purpose. I felt I had failed my parents and was just a burden. Worse, I felt I had failed I was born and brought up in myself. I started questioning myself and doubting if my Bootle near Liverpool, then as reasons for becoming a Barrister were good enough, if my now a contestant in the gloomy love for advocacy was good enough, and if the profession competition for the place in Britain was for me. with the lowest per capita income. My father was a shipping clerk Six months to one year into my suicidal pattern, I decided and my mother worked in a biscuit to take psychological help. I was applying for jobs and factory. My elder brother joined the I wanted to move on in life. Going to a psychologist police and at the age of twelve I helped him revise for the was the best decision that I could take at that time. I exam at the end of his training. Our question and answer was diagnosed with borderline clinical depression. She sessions over the contents of Moriarty’s Police Law was my helped me find my own identity, one separate from law, introduction to the law and I was hooked. and boosted my confidence. At that point, I started living gradually, working and studying for the GDL. With my I won a free place at a ‘good’ independent school but my income, savings, a scholarship and some help from my school days were undistinguished. My teachers concluded parents, I went to the UK to do the BPTC. I discovered that I was suited neither to university study nor to the law another me in the UK: a free me, a blooming me, a as a career. I went instead to Edge Hill teachers’ training confident me and a mature me. With the guidance of my college in Ormskirk, which offered Bachelor of Education tutors, I grew hopeful. I started feeling that I was not a degrees validated and awarded by Liverpool University. I failure. I remember the day I was sitting in Middle Temple graduated in 1973 and won a postgraduate exhibition to Hall and Master Richmond was delivering a lecture. 102 2020 Middle Templar

take a higher degree at Manchester University. In passing, I have watched with satisfaction as the Inn has done more I am proud to point out that I qualified as a teacher at the and more to acknowledge the presence and contribution same institution as a much more distinguished Middle of employed barristers. Changing career in the 1970s was Templar, Helena Normanton, who obtained her Certificate perhaps easier than today. Nevertheless when I left my in Education from Edge Hill in 1905. publishing job to study law, my father (who had known some years of unemployment) was understandably I taught briefly before moving to an educational publishing nervous on my behalf. He did, however, say to me: ‘You’ve company, where I had my second exposure to the law had the best education other people’s money can buy. I in the form of author contracts, acquisition and sale of assume you know what you’re doing’. I did indeed. publishing rights and intellectual property matters. More than ever I knew that this was what I wanted to do; I took a Kate McLoughlin deep breath and enrolled on the Postgraduate Diploma in Law course at City University and proceeded thence to the I was Called to the Bar by Middle Inns of Court School of Law. I was Called to the Bar by the Temple in 1994. I had read English Middle Temple in 1982. Language and Literature at Oxford as an undergraduate and I chose My aim from the outset was to work as a salaried lawyer, Middle Temple largely because the but it was clearly desirable to complete pupillage. I first performance of Twelfth Night received just one interview invitation. I had paid my had been put on there in 1602. (In way through my studies with occasional work for a 2002, I was in the audience for one management consultancy and for this interview I had of the performances of the play put on in the Hall for the to fly back from an assignment in Northern Ireland. My 400th anniversary.) I was lucky: my law conversion course interviewers, who were about my own age, knew about this and the Vocational Course for the Bar were funded by the but did not mention it. Thus, addressing a candidate with Government Legal Service. During the Vocational Course, three university qualifications, business experience and the I lived in the student flat at the top of 3 Temple Gardens, Bar finals behind him, their opening question was ‘Why where I used to look up from grappling with the law of didn’t you put your A level grades on your CV?’ I did not evidence to watch the boats go by on the Thames. The pursue the pupillage route further. nearest place to do my grocery shopping was Tesco’s in Covent Garden. I returned instead to the publishing industry, as in-house advisor. I received a telephone call in 1989 asking if I would Still sponsored by the Government Legal Service, I did be interested in joining the Paris-based European HQ my first six at Fountain Court Chambers whose members staff of a well-known computer software company, as its were all terrifyingly brilliant and extremely kind to me first attorney outside the United States. The company was and my second six at the then Department of Health and Microsoft and I moved to Paris to set up its headquarters Social Security. I was again lucky enough to have stints legal team in 1990. at the European Commission in Brussels in the Internal Market Directorate-General and at the Conseil d’Etat in Soon after I spoke to a French lawyer from another Paris where my task was to try to understand the French company about how things worked in the legal Social Security system. The Conseiller d’Etat charged with departments of these high-tech giants. His answer was full explaining it to me had a go once a week and then I’d try of Gallic flair: ‘There are only two lawyers in Europe who to explain it back to him. ‘Pas exactement,’ he would say, understand computer law…. and I am both of them‘. ‘il y a des nuances...’. My last two years as a government lawyer were spent at the Office of the Parliamentary The law had struggled to keep pace with the inventiveness Counsel where, among other things, I worked on what and rapid growth of these companies and it was a would become the Hunting Act 2004. challenge to identify suitable candidates. Moreover, legal expertise was not enough as it had to be combined with I’d chosen law because it seemed a socially useful way of an ability to deal with the demands and short attention working with words but I came to realise that my vocation spans of impatient executives. really was for literary scholarship. So in 2001, I returned to Oxford for a DPhil on the war writer Martha Gellhorn. I managed Microsoft’s European legal department for five More luck followed: a Junior Research Fellowship at Balliol years before joining IBM to work on corporate acquisitions and permanent jobs at Glasgow and Birkbeck. In 2014, I in Europe and subsequently the US. This was fascinating returned to Oxford again to take up a tutorial fellowship work but I was grateful for the chance to return to Paris as at Harris Manchester College. My own story of changing European General Counsel for Apple Computers. Much career is mirrored by many of those I teach. has been written about the personality of Steve Jobs, whose first words to me on meeting him in Paris were: My literary research to date has focused on war literature: ‘Why is it so hard to fire people over here?’. I’ve written three monographs on the subject and edited The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. But, On retirement I held a visiting fellowship at the Oxford having said all I have to say about representing armed Internet Institute, alongside a fellowship at Green College, conflict, I’m now writing a literary history of silence. It’s the and have worked as a consultant and an external expert. I most absorbing and enjoyable topic I’ve worked on. have also recently been appointed non-executive chairman of an exciting start-up company in the field of artificial Any regrets? Never for a moment from this ex-lawyer intelligence. although, since Brexit and the election of Trump, I’ve sometimes felt that we should all re-train as human As someone who was told to ‘forget the idea’ at the age rights counsel. of 16, I am proud to have made my way in the world as a lawyer. I am proud too of my membership of the Middle Temple. 2020 Middle Templar 103

AUTUMN READING MASTER USHA KARU Current Challenges in the Criminal Justice System Master Usha Karu was Called to the Bar in So, a little bit of history about some of the women who 1984 and practised in crime. In 1998, she rose to the challenges which restricted access to the legal was appointed Assistant Recorder, a profession and the Bar, and who paved the way for future Recorder in 2000 and a Circuit Judge in generations: 2005. Between 2014 and 2018 she was the CJ Commissioner, Judicial Appointments Cornelia Sorabjee Commission. She is Resident Judge of Inner London Crown Court. Cornelia Sorabjee, an Indian, was the first woman to undertake the postgraduate BCL degree at Somerville Whilst many of the challenges of the past are no longer, College, Oxford, commencing in 1890. She would not there are many that remain and new ones that appear receive her degree for another 30 years. which perhaps nobody foresaw. For women and ethnic minorities the particular challenges we face have been well Ivy Williams documented. One particularly example comes from Nemone Lethbrige, who having been Called to the Bar in Ivy Williams was the first woman to be Called to the Bar 1956, recalled that when she secured tenancy she was in 1922. She completed the BCL in 1902 and went on to promptly informed that a Yale lock had been installed on obtain an LLD in 1903, but was awarded her degrees only the lavatory in chambers and whilst all the male members in 1920. She became a lecturer in law at Oxford. of chambers had been given a key, she would have use of the lavatory at one of the coffee houses on Fleet Street. Helena Normanton We have come a long way with 2019 being an especially Our own Helena Normanton, who was Called to the Bar a significant year as it marks 100 years of women being few months after Ivy Williams, was the first woman to admitted to the Bar. It is telling how far we have come practise law in England. And, along with Rose Heilbron, since then, that the number of women being Called to the she was the first women to take Silk in 1949. Bar has eclipsed the number of men for the last three years in a row. Mithan Tata ...only two female Mithan Tata, another Indian woman, was the first woman to African-Caribbean be Called to the Bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1923. She returned to India and was the first woman practising at the Mumbai judges in the High Court. Crown Court Stella Thomas ...of 670 in post, ...of 33 BAME 31% are women applicants, 3% In 1933 Stella Thomas became the first African woman to were recommended be Called to the Bar by Middle Temple. She was a Yoruba and only 4% for appointment Nigerian, of Sierra Leonian descent, and returned to are BAME practise in Nigeria. in 2018 Dame Elizabeth Lane Dame Elizabeth Lane was the first female judge appointed to the county court in 1962 and, three years later in 1965, the first female High Court judge. She is credited with introducing ‘Your Ladyship’ into the legal vocabulary after years of being addressed as ‘My Lord’ in court. Barbara Calvert Barbara Calvert was the first female head of chambers, the second female Bencher and the first female Reader in 2001. Her Reading was entitled ‘Sex: Does it Matter?’ and she concluded: ‘Yes, in your private lives, but no longer in your professional lives. There is no height a woman cannot scale’. So right she was. 104 2020 Middle Templar

Since then there have been eight justice rises above such concerns. explained to the defendant. Does this female Readers. I am the ninth and I Renowned and respected worldwide really save money? think I have the dubious honour of for its fairness and integrity, its being the first BAME Reader. flagship, if I may say so, is jury trials Of late, there has been a severe portrayed by images of barristers in reduction in sitting days for Crown Without these fine women, amongst wigs and gowns. There is much Courts which means courts are not many others I have not named, interest from countries as far-flung as sitting to capacity. showing us what is possible, many of Japan and China who are interested in us may never have come to the Bar borrowing some of its features. The For several years now all of this has and achieved so much. In 2005 I English qualification is a kitemark of been driving away young lawyers and became the first female Circuit Judge excellence and, not surprisingly, some of the most experienced from the Indian subcontinent. As the attracts international students. practitioners. saying goes, ‘if I have seen far it is only by standing on the shoulder of giants’, Master Karu’s Coat of Arms Less work and lower numbers of and indeed, even if I wasn’t a mere practitioners means the talent pool for 5’2”, I would still be surrounded Current Challenges for the silks and judicial appointments will by giants! Criminal Justice System shrink. This has a much harsher impact on diversity and those from less I came to the UK from India at the age Firstly, there is the challenge of simply advantageous backgrounds; the very of 17, completed my A Levels and getting there. Of those who apply to sections of society who require went to North London Polytechnic. I do the Bar course, roughly a third go support. completed the GDL and was Called to on to complete it successfully. Each the Bar in 1984. At that time, year there are roughly 3,000 applicants In the latest Circuit Judge statistics, of approximately 700 or so home for a little over 400 pupillages, yet I am 670 in post, 31% are women and only students qualified each year. There still heartened by every marshal I 4% are BAME. That figure of 4% has were probably just over 5,000 meet. not changed since 2017. The Judicial practising barristers in the UK (only Appointments Commission stats show 696 females). Diversity statistics are It may appear that perhaps the age of that BAME applicants accounted for not available for that period but from austerity has resulted in the criminal 22% of all applicants. 15% were personal experience I can tell you justice system being governed less by shortlisted and 14% were there were not many BAME barristers, the golden thread of the presumption recommended for appointment. In especially females, and certainly not at of innocence that Viscount Sankey the 2018 Circuit Judge exercise of 33 the Criminal Bar. referred to in 1935, but more by BAME applicants, 17 were shortlisted monetary considerations. Defence and two were recommended for It was always my intention to practise barristers feel as though those who appointment – 3% . While the figure crime. I thoroughly enjoyed it – every hold the purse strings view the golden for women judges has greatly day was different. In those days thread as being more like the Gordian improved, those for BAME judges tenancy was the gold dust that knot, something to cut in the name of remains disappointing low. Work is pupillages have now become. At that efficacy and savings. I do not think this being done to increase the numbers time female barristers were not is an accurate statement of the current of BAME judges in the courts and permitted to wear trousers as court situation but probably reflects the tribunals but much more needs to be dress, there was no maternity leave, feeling that the criminal justice system done, in particular in respect of BAME and women were usually farmed out is no longer the Crown jewel that it Circuit Judges who sit in the Crown to do family work; certainly not was. Court. There are only two female expected to practise in serious crime. African-Caribbean judges in the Spending on legal aid has shrunk by Crown Court, no African-Caribbean Quite early on I had decided I wanted more than a billion pounds in five males at all. to become a Circuit Judge sitting in years. crime and in 2004 (before the JAC Yet there is much cause for optimism, came into being) I applied and was In real terms the effect of this is that as both the Ministry of Justice and successful. In November 2005 I was more defendants represent Crown Prosecution Service are in the sworn in as a Circuit Judge. It will be themselves so there is a greater midst of reviews of the fees structure 14 years this November. burden on the prosecution and the and the practicalities of the court judge to ensure the trial remains fair. service. Things must get better; things According to the Bar Standards The trial is likely to take longer with will get better. Board, in 2018 there were just over each step in the trial process being 16,500 barristers. Women constituted The reality is the criminal justice just under 40% and non-white system is fundamental to the legacy of barristers just under 13%. In the last 4 the UK. People come from all over the years, the percentage of female pupils world to study and practise law here, has been greater than male pupils – just as I did. females make up 50.4% and males 49.6%. Not surprisingly, the majority of In the last 100 years so much has tenancies have gone to women. changed. Who knows what the next 100 will bring. So long as women Our criminal justice system has and men with passion and ability evolved through the ages. In the 21st continue to show an interest, with Century it has become the subject of proper care and attention our criminal debate. It continues to endure justice system will remain the jewel because the innate sense of British in the Crown. 2020 Middle Templar 105

LENT READING MASTER CHRISTOPHER GREENWOOD The Highways, Byways and Blind Alleys of International Law Master Christopher Greenwood, the Lent Reader, is a Judge of the for the ‘indirect damages’ said to Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. From 1977 to 2009 he taught have been caused by the Alabama international law and practised at the Bar, becoming a QC in 1999. and her sister ship, the Florida, came He was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 2009 to to vast sums and relations between 2018. In October 2020 he will become Master of Magdalene the countries deteriorated to the College, Cambridge. point where there was talk of war. In the end the two governments opted At the time that I was Called to the attitude of the English courts to for arbitration before a five-member Bar, public international law scarcely international law was transformed tribunal, which included a former seemed a promising field for within a decade. What had seemed Swiss Head of State and eminent practice. The clerk in my first like a blind alley was soon revealed as lawyers from Italy and Brazil. Britain chambers told me that it might bring a major highway and one in which nominated Sir Alexander Cockburn, in a case every four or five years but Middle Templars played an important Chief Justice of the Queen’s Bench that I was better off focusing on part. To understand why, however, we and a Treasurer of Middle Temple. In personal injury. The International need to go back some 140 years to some respects, he was an inspired Court of Justice could scarcely have the American Civil War and a dispute choice as he was fluent in French and been described as busy in those between the British and American spoke passable German, Italian and years. In 1977-78, it had one case on governments over a ship called the Spanish. Unfortunately, he had one of its books which it did not have Alabama. the most unpleasant personalities in jurisdiction to hear. When I became a London and disliked foreigners. The judge of the International Court 30 The Alabama was built in Birkenhead US choice, Charles Francis Adams, years later, my office contained a in 1862 to the order of agents of the was a far better one; though today he handsome bound set of the Court’s Confederate Government. Ostensibly would certainly have been conflicted reports. The volume for 1977 a merchant ship, she was in fact a as he had been the US Ambassador contained only four pages; two pages commerce raider and the United in London during the Civil War and in English and two pages in French States Embassy in London the author of the US demands on the same point. The inside cover demanded that the British regarding the Alabama. of the volume stated rather sadly that Government respect the neutrality it ‘this volume contains neither an index had proclaimed at the outbreak of The arbitration was a spectacular nor a table of contents’. Underneath, the war and prevent her from sailing. success. The Tribunal found for the someone had written in pencil ‘nor At this point, everything went wrong. USA on the question of damages anything else!’ The Foreign Office sought legal directly caused by the Alabama but advice from the Queen’s Advocate, for the UK on the indirect damages. The picture in the English courts was Sir John Harding QC. On the face of The UK paid the award of $15.5 hardly more promising. The famous it, this was a sensible step, but million at once and a dispute which decision in Buttes Gas and Oil v. unfortunately Harding had become might have poisoned relations for Hammer led one despairing insane and, by the time the Foreign decades and even imperilled the commentator to observe that the Office had become aware of this co-operation which played such an judgement left him with the sinking problem, the Alabama had sailed. important part in two world wars was feeling that ’either international law During the next two years she did brought to an end. Moreover, the does not really exist or, if it does, the immense damage to US shipping example of how two States could English courts are incapable of before she was sunk by a US warship settle a dispute through law inspired finding out what it is or applying it’. nine miles off Cherbourg in a battle projects for a standing international Not long afterwards, a High Court immortalised in a graphic painting by court. judge, confronted with an argument Manet (who had not actually about international law, quipped that witnessed the battle but painted it That court was created in 1922 and ’English law is law, foreign law is fact, from press reports some months again Middle Templars played an international law is fiction’. later). important part. The first British Judge of the Permanent Court of In fact, the picture was much brighter After the war, the US demanded International Justice was Viscount than might have been thought. The compensation for what it considered Finlay, a former Lord Chancellor and International Court was on the eve of a breach of the international law of Treasurer of the Inn. Despite being 79 a remarkable renaissance and the neutrality. Some of these demands, at the time of his election, he managed to serve most of his nine-year term before dying in office. 106 2020 Middle Templar

The Battle of the Kearsarge and the Alabama by Édouard Manet. Copyright – The Yorck Project (2002) Meisterwerke der Malerei, distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN 3936122202 His successor was another Middle there is no retirement age, which may the law of the sea, where its Templar, Sir Cecil Hurst. A former explain why, when the Court is in judgements on maritime boundaries Foreign Office Legal Adviser, he public session, a security guard have done much to prevent the became President of the Court but watches over it holding a defibrillator. enlargement of coastal State had to preside at a particularly dark jurisdiction leading to confrontation. time as World War II loomed. The sixties and seventies were a While some of its cases may seem distinctly lean period for the Court the most obscure of byways; the Isla In 1946 the Court was reconstituted with very few cases and defendant Portillos, a tiny area of uninhabited as the International Court of Justice, States which frequently refused to swampland at the mouth of the river though it retained both the premises appear. By 1978 the Court was forming the border between Costa and many of the working practices of regularly dismissed as a blind alley. Rica and Nicaragua, has been the the pre-war Court. Of the seven Starting in the eighties, however, subject of four cases in the last nine judges of British nationality, the first there was a remarkable recovery and years, it needs to be remembered four came from Gray’s Inn and there the Court now has 17 cases pending, that even seemingly trivial disputes has been only one from each of the involving nearly 30 States. It has can often have a disproportionately other three Inns. As in Finlay’s time, played a particularly important role in 2020 Middle Templar 107

malign influence on the relations dictator, General Pinochet and the liberties and our security, like all between neighbours. All too often prominence of international law in nations we may be less mindful of governments find that popular our courts today was illustrated by where to strike the balance between opinion will not allow them to the fact that the Supreme Court our security and the liberties of compromise a dispute. In such cases, marked its 10th anniversary by others. One of the strengths of the the availability of impartial and publishing a selection of the European Court of Human Rights is respected third party adjudication is judgements which it had given on that it has reminded us of the need to an invaluable safety valve. issues of international law. take account of the liberties of everyone. International law is also regularly …when the Obama applied by arbitration tribunals. Administration Ironically, the right-wing criticism of These have been used to hear cases settled a large claim the intrusiveness of international between States, as in the days of the by Iran it found that human rights law finds an almost Alabama, but have also more recently the sum due could exact counterpart in criticism from been used to resolve disputes not be paid through the left of the effect of international between individuals or corporations the banking system law on foreign investment, which is and States, sometimes applying a because of US attacked for limiting the sovereign mixture of international law and sanctions and had rights of the State. One wonders domestic law. Arbitrations between to be taken in pallet whether in their eagerness to States and foreign investors have loads of cash to the undermine parts of international law been particularly prominent. Iranian Embassy. of which they disapprove, these two groups of critics ever realise the Special mention should be made of I am happy to say, therefore, that extent to which they hand one the Iran-United States Claims international law turned out to be another weapons with which to attack Tribunal. This tribunal, which sits in more of a highway than a byway, let the laws they do support. the Netherlands, is made up of three alone a blind alley and it has given members appointed by Iran, three by me a career which has been more What of the criticism that the US and three ‘third country interesting and more rewarding than I international law is weak and member’ or neutrals. Established as could have imagined. The question inadequate, because it can resolve part of the settlement which led to remains, however, whether only the smaller problems and not the freeing of the US diplomatic staff international law really amounts to big issues like climate change? The held hostage in Iran for nearly 15 anything of substance. Increasingly challenges posed by climate change months, it has given hundreds of international law is under attack for or conflict in the Middle East cannot decisions in cases ranging from huge being too powerful an intrusion into be solved by law alone. If those commercial and inter-State claims to national life and too weak to resolve challenges are to be met it can only claims by US nationals for the seizure the great challenges of our time, the be by political will, which will of their furniture and personal effects contradiction tends to elude critics frequently have to be accompanied during the Iranian Revolution. In the who will frequently attack it on both by economic strength and scientific early years, two of the Iranian grounds. Neither is well founded. innovation. If those can be brought to appointed arbitrators attempted to bear, law may play a useful role in strangle a neutral chairman with his The argument that international law assisting them, but it would be futile necktie in the foyer of the tribunal is too great an intrusion into national to imagine that such problems can building. More recently, when the sovereignty is heard from the political be legislated away. Moreover, to say Obama administration settled a large right wing especially in relation to that international law is unworthy of claim by Iran it found that the sum human rights. Yet there is no conflict our attention and support because it due could not be paid through the between the European Convention cannot solve the big problems is to banking system because of US on Human Rights and British throw out the baby with the bath sanctions and had to be taken in democratic values. The European water. As the Alabama case shows, pallet loads of cash to the Iranian Convention was largely written by the resolution of any dispute is an Embassy. Sadly, it has not yet brought British authors and its values are our important contribution to reducing about the transformation in relations values. If in this country we pride dangerous international tension. achieved by the Alabama tribunal, ourselves on understanding the but it is nonetheless a remarkable balance to be struck between our Let me leave the last word to Judge achievement that it has continued to Guerrero, the last President of the function for nearly 40 years despite Permanent Court of International the fact that during that time the two Justice. Presiding at the Court’s last States have never had diplomatic hearing in December 1939, he said: relations. In the last resort, recourse to There has been a similar international justice depends on the will transformation in the role of of governments and on their readiness international law in the English to submit for legal decision all which can courts. Less than two decades after and should be preserved from the the House of Lords shied away from arbitrament of violence. As for the Court, considering international law in the it means to accomplish to the full the Buttes case, it gave the ground- duties incumbent upon it, and it will not breaking judgement on the potential weaken in that resolve. criminal liability of the former Chilean That is no blind alley, but a highway worth travelling. 108 2020 Middle Templar

TEMPLE CHURCH CHOIR – SUMMER REVIEW ROGER SAYER Temple Church Choir Summer Review Roger Sayer is Organist and Director of singing teachers, musical theory sessions with Tom and me, Music at The Temple Church, having and they have at their fingertips a wonderful ‘vocal app’ previously held the same position at Rochester created solely for them – it is a treasure-trove of daily Cathedral. He is also Deputy Chorus Director warmups. In addition to the Zoom sessions, I record and and Accompanist to the London Symphony share training videos and rehearsal tracks to our YouTube Chorus. He is organ soloist on the soundtrack channel that focus on music to be learnt at home. Excitingly, of the blockbuster film Interstellar and we are aiming to remotely learn Handel’s Messiah in recently performed the score live at the anticipation of a performance once we return. Other ways in Royal Albert Hall. which we are keeping the choristers occupied and their musical interests entertained includes interactive quizzes I write this at a time of a national crisis and global pandemic. and setting them musical projects. The boys are currently Things could not be stranger for anyone. My colleagues in hard at work on a project about their favourite piece of the music department were thrown into a situation where music, exploring and learning more about the composer suddenly the Church was silent. Choristers stranded at and the composition. When the time comes all they have various levels of their musical development, adult choir learned over this period will be shared. members, like many others, marooned by the cruel and complete loss of earnings with all concerts and tours All the musicians have helped maintain the weekly musical cancelled within a few days of the lockdown. offerings on the Church’s YouTube channel through our selections of pre-recorded CDs and their own home The music department has three new members of staff; recordings. Perhaps our most remarkable feat to date, has Elisabeth Munns (Music Administrator), Thomas Allery been to create a visual performance of Vaughan Williams’ (Assistant Director of Music) and Charles Andrews (Liturgical Five Mystical Songs. Each member of the choir singing in Organist). With their expertise we can be very proud that we their home along to an organ track, performed by myself. have kept the musical heartbeat going so that, when we Two weeks of serious work piecing it together has made return, we can raise the spirits and stir the souls once more. what I hope will prove to be an historical statement of love, belief and power that transcends all difficulties. We are absolutely delighted by the choristers’ engagement with us and the support from their parents. We are a strong It is very busy indeed and the department is working flat out team and bonded by our love of singing and of the Church. to ensure that the great Temple tradition of outstanding music and liturgy is not damaged at this time, and that we Carefully timetabled sessions via Zoom are happening every can return bonded and stronger. day, each week. These include singing lessons from our two Temple Church choir rehearsing My God and King remotely 109 2020 Middle Templar

TEMPLE CHURCH DURING LOCKDOWN MASTER ROBIN GRIFFITH-JONES Temple Church During Lockdown Master Robin Griffith-Jones worked with kindly sending us the files, from which we are extracting all Mother Theresa’s Sisters in India and with the the music we can use. Luckily we have left Lent behind, and homeless in London, before returning to we can happily scatter I Was Glad, Zadok and Jerusalem like university to study theology. After a Curacy in confetti onto our virtual services. If the lockdown goes on Liverpool, a Chaplaincy at one Oxford College too long, we might run out of repertoire; then we will get a Lectureship in another, he was appointed Roger Sayer playing the soundtrack to Interstellar. A far cry Master of the Temple in 1999. He is an from Bach, but powerful stuff, nonetheless. Honorary Bencher of both Middle and Inner Temple. It has been strangely moving, to record these services on Skype: a handful of the individual voices of our colleagues I am writing this at the end of April, in deepest lockdown. and friends, all from home and all quietly, domestically The Temple Church is locked and barred. All our services spoken. It is calm, conversational and without any pretense have been cancelled. The Temple is so empty, you could of grandeur. It is also deeply reflective and prayerful. To hear imagine the tumbleweed rolling through Church Court; it is the story of Christ’s Passion and of Easter in such intimacy is eerie. The Temple Residents’ Association WhatsApp has a rare privilege for us; we hope it will have been a gentle become a lifeline: bags of scones (complete of course with blessing to all those who listened. cream and jam) are furtively carried from building to building and left on the railings to be collected. All of us at There is a tradition, not normally observed here, of the Church can only share the whole nation’s hope that by presenting the tumultuous events of Holy Week in dramatic the time you can read this year’s edition of the Middle form, with different speakers taking the different parts. We Templar the restrictions will have been lifted and life will be took up this style of presentation in our Holy Week services. beginning its long and painful path back to normality. An even further cry from Bach; but incomparably immediate. Unsuspected talents are being revealed. Master Hatcher, Meanwhile, we have had Holy Week and the sun is shining. Reader of the Temple, became thoroughly (disconcertingly?) We have more than enough to do; even if we have to make convincing in the role of Jesus; Matt the verger, our most of it up as we go along. We are (rapidly) mastering producer, is surely going to be headhunted by Radio 4. Zoom, Skype, StarLeaf and Microsoft Teams; the Church now has its own YouTube channel (wonders are not ready to Master Mark Hatcher and I look forward to the Michaelmas cease quite yet!) and Soundcloud account. Term, and to the opportunity, we hope, to welcome everyone, from new students to senior Benchers, into the Our musicians saw a vertiginous summer ahead, if the Church. The time for celebration, when the pandemic is choristers were left unattended and untrained until – well, over, will undoubtedly come. But our hearts go out the autumn term, perhaps. Each chorister is receiving weekly meanwhile to all those practitioners, and indeed whole sets, on-line lessons in singing and musicianship. Roger Sayer that have found their work and livelihood evaporate. What a and his musical team have been creating rehearsal videos dreadful summer it has been for far too many of our for the children. Do not be surprised, when our live services colleagues and friends. Master Hatcher and I are already return, if you hear the choristers sing Chilcott’s Be Simple sketching out the event or events we can offer to raise funds Little Children. (Not such a bad motto for the choristers, in for the relief on offer from the Inns and the Barristers’ these unsettling weeks.) They will surely remember it for Benevolent Association (BBA) to practitioners in need. years, as the first anthem they have ever learnt online. Various Benchers and Members have been in touch to ask for our prayers, for themselves and loved ones. Do please We are meanwhile posting virtual services on our website be in touch, if you would like us to remember you and them www.templechurch.com and our YouTube channel: from each day; or if you would simply like to talk about these last Mothering Sunday through Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Easter few months and the months to come. and now past St George’s Day and onwards towards the Ascension. Everything is being recorded remotely, of course. We were once due to leave the EU at the end of March Next stop, our annual Easter Carol service. The great Easter 2019. It seems an age ago: those relentless arguments, stories are easily recorded. Vaughan Williams’ wonderful those hardening attitudes, that deepening intolerance. Five Mystical Songs are altogether more complicated: Nobody would have wished this year’s pandemic on anyone; Roger has recorded the organ part, to be overlaid with the but it has, so far, brought the nation together in a shared life choir, the result to be overlaid again with the soloist – and all and purpose that seemed irrecoverable a year ago. A with the words relayed in sign-language as well for the deaf. fortnight before that first Brexit deadline, Master Igor Judge gave an unforgettable address in the Church. He was of Thank heavens meanwhile for the recent recordings of the courses speaking of a political and not medical crisis, but choir, and of Roger and his colleagues on the organ. We are many of us who heard him speak will have looked back, this ransacking their tracks for seasonal music; and very lovely year, on his words. We will have wondered what societal and fitting it is too. Every year several wedding-couples have progress, profoundly beneficial, might yet emerge from the a recording made of their service; recent such couples are pandemic. And I for one hope that when you read this, 110 2020 Middle Templar

preparations will be well in hand for a virtual, or even it represented a remarkable and wonderful societal convulsion perhaps an actual, Last Night of the Proms, at which millions from which we continue to reap the benefits. of us, united by Zoom, can applaud the NHS, give thanks for a nation reunited, and sing out, swaying from side to side, I return to hope. Hope tends to sound a little bland. Rather dull. Land of Hope and Glory. Faith attracts passion. People die horrible deaths for their faiths. Charity, love, also involves passion. Properly understood, hope is I am grateful to Master Judge for his permission to quote no less positive and should be embraced with an equal passion. these extracts from his address: Come with me to a little church in the heart of Leicestershire. The In this ancient church we have for centuries addressed the eternal King, the head of the Church of England, has just been executed. verities. But Brexit is not one of them. Brexit is not an eternal Oliver Cromwell had dispensed with Parliament. A Civil War had verity. And next September, as we did last September, whatever ended with massive casualties. Anglicanism was in retreat. the outcome, we will mark the end of summer on the last night of the Proms by singing with enormous enthusiasm and fervor, Land Yet in 1653 an Anglican church was founded at Staunton Harold, of Hope and Glory. At the risk of an allegation of heresy, I have to and this is what you read on the stone inside the church: express my personal opinion that five or ten years from now we shall be engaged with problems at least as pressing as Brexit. “In the year 1653 when all things sacred were throughout the nation either demolished or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley, founded Could we also remember that this ancient church has witnessed this church; whose singular praise it is to have done the best of the consequences of much worse disasters? 100 years ago, the things in the worst of times and hoped in the most calamitous.” bells celebrated the end of the war in which millions, literally millions, of lives were brought painful, hideous, untimely ends, Hope is indeed an eternal verity. This inscription is a message for and millions more around the world were about to be eradicated the ages, and for us today. by pandemic flu. Both were cataclysmic national disasters. And remember too that contemporaneously with those catastrophes Master Robin Griffith-Jones: [email protected] something positive happened. That was the year our constitution Master Mark Hatcher: [email protected] at last acknowledged that at least some of the half of the human Church Office number: 020 7353 8559 race called women were entitled to participate in the electoral processes. Although we have only slowly appreciated the enormous value to society of the whole of that advance in 1919, 2020 Middle Templar 111

VALEDICTORY MASTER ROBERT CARNWATH Valedictory The Rt Hon. Lord Carnwath I have been in the law for 50 years Most important of course has been I was quite wrong. Subsequent and a judge for more than 25. Quite the support at every stage of my events have shown it to be a very enough for anyone, you may think. wife, Bambina. As James Mackay necessary, probably inevitable But it has been a wonderful career. may remember from my swearing- development. I also think that the in ceremony, she was not over the location and the building, after its I am very pleased to see here many moon about my becoming a judge. superb conversion, could hardly people who have played special parts As she put it, ‘she did not want to be be improved on. It is a wonderful in my legal career; I am sorry I can married to un Vecchio Parruccone’ building to work in. One of the things only mention a few. I am particularly – loosely translated ‘an old bigwig’. I shall miss most about the court, delighted to see Edward Cazalet, Well, bigwig or not, she has stuck apart of course from the people, is who as my pupil master in 1969 really with me every step of the way. I could my room; one of the best in London, started me off. He was a perfect role not have done any of it without her. with a splendid view looking across model and kind enough to believe to Parliament and Big Ben, and down that I could perhaps make it at the One of the things on statues of Lincoln, Gandhi and Bar and beyond. I shall miss most Mandela. I pay tribute to all those about the court, involved in that achievement. I must also mention George Dobry apart of course QC, sadly no longer with us. He from the people, is I am also lucky to have served took me under his wing when I went my room; one of the under three remarkable Presidents: into Planning Chambers in 1970 and best in London, Nicholas, David, Brenda – each with became my mentor and friend, until with a splendid their own distinctive qualities, which his death two years ago. view looking across I will not attempt to describe. I have to Parliament and every confidence that you, Robert, Another early influence was Derry Big Ben, and will carry on that great tradition. Irvine (not well enough to come down on statues of today, but I want to send him my Lincoln, Gandhi They have been supported by our best wishes). I first met him as his and Mandela. highly skilled and loyal staff, led by research assistant at the LSE in two strong Chief Executives, Jenny 1968 and became a great admirer. I have been fortunate that my eight Rowe and Mark Ormerod, and our I did not know then that he would, years in the Supreme Court have redoubtable Registrar, Louise di in due course, become one of the coincided with the development of a Mambro, one of the real powers outstanding Lord Chancellors of our remarkable new institution and some behind the scene. A special tribute age. I was very lucky to have had very high-profile cases. 15 years ago, I also to my devoted clerks or personal his support at every stage and the was no great fan of the idea of a new assistants, John and Lorraine at privilege of working with him. Supreme Court, or of the proposal the RCJ, and in this court, Carmen, to put it in the Middlesex Guildhall; Isabel, and now Daniel, who as well I was very sad to hear that Andrew as Charlie Falconer (also here today) as his other duties has managed Leggatt died just two weeks ago. He never ceases to remind me. Indeed, today’s event with skill and great was the author of the seminal report in an article in 2004. I described the sensitivity. on the Tribunal System, which led to proposal as an unnecessary and the reform programme implemented expensive luxury. This is not a day for controversy, but under the 2007 Act. My time as the before I end I cannot resist a brief first Senior President of Tribunals was comment on recent suggestions one of the most rewarding phases that appointments to the court of my career. It seems particularly should come under some sort of appropriate that Andrew’s son political scrutiny. Quite apart from the George (Master Leggatt) has been principle, there are serious practical appointed to step into my shoes in difficulties. You need to know what the Supreme Court. qualities you are looking for. I also owe a debt of gratitude to First, we are not like the American Lord Mackay, happily here in robust Supreme Court. Very few of our form. It was he who in 1994, as Lord cases have any real political content. Chancellor, persuaded me that I had Variety is the keynote and one of better make the career jump to the the main fascinations. Take my first judiciary then, before they brought and last cases in this court. They the judicial retirement age down from could not be more different, or more 75 to 70 the following year. It turned esoteric. Eight years ago my first ever out to be very good advice. case in the Supreme Court was a 112 2020 Middle Templar

Privy Council appeal from the Cook been a special interest of mine. It is carried out an individual assessment Islands in the Pacific. It involved a very suitable as my last case not least of the justices, in attempt to identify long-running dispute between two because all four leading counsel are Europhiles, most likely it was thought, extended Maori families, about from my old chambers, Landmark. to ‘thwart the will of the majority on traditional property rights. The Brexit’. We were graded on a scale dispute had been going on for 100 So how are you going to politically of one to five. I, along with Lord years. I hope our decision helped to vet for those sort of cases? Perhaps Reed, was identified as a five-star heal the rift. the most important quality you Europhile, partly because of our should be looking for is versatility. links with various European judicial Contrast my last case, which we associations, but more curiously in are hearing yesterday and today. Secondly, even if you concentrate on my case, because I was said to be ‘an It is about business rates, and how the more political cases, it is easy for acclaimed viola player and lover of they apply to ATM cash machines in observers to get things wrong. Take European culture’. I certainly plead supermarkets. Not every one’s cup the first Miller/Brexit case. Before the guilty to the latter. The former is more of tea, but rating happens to have hearing, one well-known newspaper debatable. Anyway, I am afraid their predictions were not very accurate. Both Robert and I gave dissenting judgments supporting the government’s position. At that point our suspect Euro-credentials were forgotten, and we were hailed by the same paper as Champions of the People. I hate to disappoint readers of that paper, but, believe it or not, I had supported the government, not because I felt myself to be championing the will of the people, but because I thought their arguments were right in law. Just as in the second Miller case, three years later, I voted against the government, because I thought their arguments were wrong. Fortunately in the second case there was very little attention to us as individuals. All the focus was on our glamorous President and her brooch. However, I was very proud to be linked to that judgment. Whatever its political effect in this country, which seems to have been limited, I have no doubt that it did much to cement the standing of this court, and more importantly the reputation of this country as a world leader in the promotion and protection of the rule of law. That is one of our most important and precious assets. So, I leave the court with a great sense of pride and gratitude. I hope to spend more time after retirement on what is still the biggest challenge facing us all, that of climate change. But for the rest of the day it is back to rating of ATM machines. Thank you. 2020 Middle Templar 113

BEHIND THE LENS CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU Behind the Lens Chris Christodoulou began his photographic career in 1979 at corresponding hallmarks. The game the Royal Albert Hall where he was the house photographer of ‘find the hallmark’ on a piece of for 33 years. He specialises in live classical music, opera and 16th Century silver which has been show photography. This year he celebrates several important polished for 400 years proved to be photographic milestones, 40 years of photographing the BBC as challenging as photographing Proms, 30 years opera production photography at the Royal the silver itself. If you want to College of Music and 25 years at Middle Temple. photograph silver, it can be summed up in just one-word – ‘reflections’. My first job in the Temple was on Two major challenges immediately You need a little reflection to give a freezing cold night in November presented themselves. The first was the image depth and life, but you 1995. Dr John Birch, the then Temple that I was entirely at the mercy of do not particularly want an image Church Organist, knew my work the daylight (or rather lack of it); the of the photographer and his lights, from the Royal Albert Hall; I had second was my fear of heights! I had tripod and camera reflected in the been the House Photographer there to spend two weeks with a heavy silver you are trying to photograph. since 1979 and he was curator of plate camera (and endless other After several tests, I built a one metre the organ. John wanted a picture photographic kit) 18 feet above square cube out of 6mm opaque of the Choir outside the Church for ground up a scaffolding tower. It was perspex sheeting with a little hole a Christmas card. The shoot was a amazing to be up close and to be for my camera lens to poke through great success and the start of a long able read details which are simply not and painted white to further minimise and happy connection with Temple visible from ground level. I was left in any reflections. I was then fully Church, Middle and Inner Temples. no doubt as to the exemplary artistic in control of my lighting and the skill and craft of these, the very best, amount of shadows and reflections I have photographed many royal stained-glass window makers. I wanted to introduce into the shot. occasions – including more than 300 The importance of the commission in London – but royal visits to Middle After the success of the stained- became immediately apparent when Temple, whether official or private, glass windows, the next project Ian Garwood, the Inn’s Director of are always special. Over the years was to photograph every piece Estates, handed me the collection I could not fail to notice how much of silver in the Middle Temple schedule with the valuations. It royal visitors enjoy coming to Middle collection, being sure to record their was at that point that I developed Temple and relaxing in the company of Benchers and members they know so well. HRH The Duke of Cambridge is an enthusiastic and committed Royal Bencher and he plainly loves being part of, and adding to, the history and traditions of the Inn. Three royal occasions stand out: the re-dedication in 2013 of the Temple Church organ with HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; the year-long events in celebration of 800 years of Magna Carta, leading up to the national commemoration at Runnymede in June 2015; and TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s private visit to meet the students awarded their Cambridge Scholarships in October 2012. Archival photography is a significant Temple Church Choir photographed in 1995 part of my work and my first important archive commission for Middle Temple was to photograph the stained-glass windows in the Hall as full panels and individual crests. They had never before been photographed in their entirety. Each of the 14 windows, and the 16 individual panels which make up each window, had to be recorded. 114 2020 Middle Templar

‘Window 11 North’ in Middle Temple Hall a routine of devout prayer when Over the years, I have photographed Photographing the collection of handling each piece of silver from the almost everything in the public paintings posed similar problems to vault to my studio just outside to be areas of the Middle Temple. A those of the silver with the added photographed. few years ago, I captured for the challenge that every painting had archival record, and for a subsequent to be photographed in-situ. The The following year it was the turn of book, the 719 Armorial Panels (and essential requirement is to be able the Molyneux Globes to be my silent counting!). The challenge was to accurately to reproduce a copy from sitters. On this occasion, we had date and caption each image. I the image taken without having the the heavy perspex protective shell wrote and read more Latin during need to refer again to the original surrounding the globes removed for this commission than in my entire painting, so a true and accurate the photographs, but not before I schooldays. It was fascinating to colour balance is vital. To attain this, had been reminded as to the value study the design and painted figures before a painting was photographed, and historical importance of these, and to try to relate them to the name a printed colour bar was placed possibly the two most important of the person bearing the arms. alongside to provide a constant globes, and certainly the earliest reference from which to work. The surviving globes, to be made in One of the Molyneux Globes need to work in-situ in a limited England. Lighting had to be simple space did not allow for the optimum and minimal as with any globe shape positioning of my lighting and in reflections are almost inevitable. In some cases that caused blooming the interests of safety, I had made effects and unsightly fogging, so two small shatterproof glass discs I used both creative lighting and which I placed between my lights polarizing filters to eliminate this. and the globes just in case my lights faltered and, yes, the Book of The project to photograph every Common Prayer made its second building exterior in Middle Temple appearance in as many years. took a little more than a year because, although there are only 43, The Inn’s vast and irreplaceable we had to wait for frontages to be collection of documents, books and clear of building works scaffolding manuscripts, to which additions are and we were at the mercy of the constantly being made, often require weather. Most are listed and, looking professional recording, so a portable back at the images, I can easily studio is set up in a convenient area understand why the Temple is a and under the direction of staff from favourite location for film producers. the Archive Department, where all All I had to do was to remove the the work can be carried out on site colour from an image and the and in safety. photograph became 100 years old 2020 Middle Templar 115

Chris involved with some of his earlier work at the Inn when they began to build Hall. These are not just initials and memorials with quite remarkably few, if any, of medieval armour is remarkable. of long-dead craftsmen. The roof aerials or trappings of the 20th trusses were fashioned and checked Century in sight. Every ten years or so, the interior for fit on the ground, where Fountain of the roof of Hall undergoes a full Court now is, before being craned up The armour was taken down from survey. Each time the scaffolding into their final positions. So, a pair is the Hall, cleaned and preserved by is put up inside Hall, the Estates marked ‘Left 1’and ‘Right 1’ to make specialist antique metal conservator, Department, knowing my difficulty sure they got it right. William Hawkes, in 2017. After with heights, always thinks up (to cleaning and stabilising the collection their great hilarity and entertainment) Photography requirements at the this was a great opportunity to some new element of the wonderful Temple are endless, ongoing building photograph the armour while it was roof beams and the work on them, and progress photography, intimate accessible and in pristine condition. which needs to be photographed and more formal dinners. In all of Again, one of the privileges of my and recorded. Most recently, when London it is my favourite location job is to meet so many interesting I scaled the heights, I concentrated for celebrations – I recently had my people. It was enlightening working on the carpenters’ marks on the own birthday party in the Bench with Bill, whose extensive knowledge beams, which date back to 1562, Apartments – and a photographer’s dream venue for weddings. The Middle Temple is, to me, much more than a historic and prized relic. It is a living and working treasure in the heart of London, just a few metres off the Strand, where thousands pass every day completely unaware of what is inside. My association with the Inn for 25 years has been a wonderful privilege. Chris Christodoulou Photography Mobile: 07976 157455 Email: [email protected] Website: www.photochris.co.uk The Hall Roof in scaffolding during the ten year survey 116 2020 Middle Templar

WHAT HAVE THE BAR COUNCIL AND THE INN EVER DONE FOR ME? MASTER LOUISE MCCULLOUGH What Have the The Bar Council meets approximately six times a year, Bar Council and usually in London, but for the first time ever in 2019 went the Inn Ever ‘on tour’ to the enjoy the hospitality of the Wales and Done for Me? Chester Circuit in Cardiff. The Government Law Officers and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are all invited Master Louise McCullough was to attend to face questions. Called in 1991 and practises in Crime and Family law, with a special interest Since the pandemic, all meetings have been held virtually in vulnerable witnesses. She is a (a welcome development). The Bar Council has over Senior Advocacy trainer and one of 100 members drawn from all stages of people’s careers, the three Middle Temple Circuits and Specialist Bar Associations (SBAs), as well as Representatives at the Bar Council. strong representation from the Employed Bar. The Bar Council is the profession’s trade union and is Each Inn supplies three members as representatives. separate and distinct from our regulator, the Bar Standards Each serves a three-year term (renewable once) and is Board (BSB), and although separate entities for the best expected to sit on one of the Bar Council’s working groups part of 20 years, are still regularly muddled up by those or committees. The Inn’s Reps are currently Joe Smouha most directly impacted (i.e. members of the Bar). This QC, Isabel Hitching QC and me (supported by Master confusion is compounded by the fact the Bar Practice Fee Janice Brennan as alternate). In this role, we are invited to funds both organisations (albeit the lion’s share goes to the attend the Inn’s Executive Committee (‘ExCo‘) which has regulator) and that they are located at the same premises. sat throughout the pandemic to ensure a more nuanced response to the crisis. The Bar Council fulfils its function nationally by battling directly with the Government on issues like Legal Aid, Each of the Reps writes a report for ExCo. Following ExCo, court sitting hours (if indeed they are sitting at all) and a report is then sent to the Chair of the Bar Council (this internationally by, amongst other things, promoting the year the dynamic and tireless Master Amanda Pinto) to rule of law. report back on the Inn’s response, including: taking all of the student Qualifying Sessions (QS) online since the beginning of lockdown, thereby delivering thousands of hours of sessions of the highest quality; extending the remit of the Inn’s Hardship Fund to cover those not caught by the remit of the Bar Benevolent Association (BBA) fund; and assistance with rent deferrals for tenants of the Inn. This direct flow of information has been invaluable in rebutting the tiresome trope that ‘the Bar Council and the Inn do nothing for me’. Casual vacancies arise on the Bar Council from time to time and I would encourage all those interested in building a successful and resilient profession to become more involved. WINE 117 at Middle Temple A crisp Bordeaux Blanc, a classic Claret, or our indulgent Port – our wines are carefully sourced from the best grapes and made exclusively for the Inn’s members and clients. Available to purchase from our website: middletemple.org.uk/merchandise For queries and information please call 020 7427 4800 2020 Middle Templar

THE MIDDLE TEMPLE SURVIVE AND THRIVE PROGRAMME MICHAEL HARWOOD The Middle Temple Survive and Thrive Programme Michael Harwood is a barrister practising in during lockdown, but also opened the floor to all of the public law and has undertaken several roles as attendees to ask questions and share their thoughts, a legal adviser to the government, most concerns and experiences. Topics covered during the recently at HM Treasury. Michael is committed sessions included: maintaining professional ID in lockdown; to representing the interests of all the Inn’s being ‘Zoomed Out’ and dealing with screen fatigue; junior members, with a particular focus on anxiety and worry; grief and bereavement; loneliness and promoting positive mental health and isolation; tech stress; financial pressure; and, significantly wellbeing. Michael is a member of the Inn’s at that time when restrictions were beginning to be eased, Survive & Thrive Steering Group. coping with the transition out of lockdown. During the height of the restrictions imposed on public life Some of the tips, such as keeping video calls short and this year, the work of the Survive and Thrive working group diversifying the modes and purposes of interaction you have at the Inn felt more important than ever. Though it was clear with others every day, applied universally, but ultimately it that the focus of our attention ought to be on the survive was clear that there are few ‘one size fits all’ solutions, and aspect of our remit throughout a time of unprecedented given how varied our own lives and demands are, to an challenge and uncertainty for the profession, we considered extent we all have to find ways that work for us. For me, it it important to also shine a light where the new way of living is making sure I step out of the door and do a walk around and working had allowed colleagues to make changes for the block every morning before returning home and setting the better. In this spirit, we hosted a Covid-19 Wellbeing down to ‘work’, just to help clear my mind. Significantly, it is Special for members in June. The two guest speakers important that we do not leave these practices at the door, for this webinar were Rachel Spearing, co-founder of the but take them with us as life begins to return to a semblance ‘Wellbeing at the Bar’ initiative, and Vicki Wilson, its current of normality. Though the challenges posed by the pandemic Chair. have placed a great and unique strain on our mental health, maintaining our wellbeing is a practice we should be The session gave not only the two speakers an opportunity undertaking in all times. to share their tips and experiences of maintaining wellbeing Ashley Building demand for these facilities, as chambers adapt to new Common Room working practices. Unfortunately the pandemic delayed the start of these works but I am pleased to report that Ian Garwood work has now commenced. Ian Garwood is responsible for the Inn’s On the upper level, new French windows will be installed Estate and portfolio of historic properties, to provide views of the Garden and access onto a covering all aspects from asset terrace area with seating for use in the summer. An management, building repair, major existing door will be modified and brought back into use refurbishment projects and property to provide step free access into the new space from acquisitions to tenant management. Middle Temple Lane. Internally, a combined bar and Through a joint arrangement with Inner café area will be provided, together with a mixture of Temple, Ian is also responsible for comfortable seating for general relaxation formed maintaining the fabric of Temple Church around a new central staircase giving access to the lower on behalf of both Inns. level. Writing this article in the midst of the Covid-19 The lower level will provide a mixture of individual pandemic, it is difficult to see what the future will look workstations, quiet booths and a meeting room, with the like as we emerge from the crisis. We have all been ability to hire the latter on an hourly basis. Robust Wi-Fi forced, like it or not, to rely on technology to stay in coverage will be available across both floors. touch, with videoconferencing for meetings now becoming the norm. Financial concerns have caused Throughout the design process we have been keen to chambers, like all other businesses, to evaluate the use ensure that the new common room provides smart of their accommodation in an effort to reduce modern facilities in a warm and welcoming atmosphere unnecessary outlay. These two things alone mean that that can be used and enjoyed by all members of the Inn. working practices will change and the need for more flexible working areas, not necessarily within chambers, As part of these works, we will also be modifying the will increase. main entrance to the Ashley Building to improve circulation around the welcome desk area. This will The Inn’s project to form a new common room in the include the provision of additional WC facilities and Ashley Building includes a floor designed to provide improved access to the new common room areas from flexible work areas to cater for the expected increase in the lower level of the main staircase. The works programme is due to take several months but we hope that it will be completed in time for the summer term of 2021. 118 2020 Middle Templar

TEMPLE RESIDENTS‘ ASSOCIATION MASTER FERGUS RANDOLPH Temple Residents’ Association Master Fergus Randolph has always been In carrying out its duties, the TRA engages with all relevant involved in promoting the Bar’s interests in the ‘stakeholders’, that is to say, the Inns themselves and their EU. Having undertaken a stage in the committees, as well as the contiguous London councils Commission in the late 1980s, he has and other institutions such as TFL, where their activities (or developed a specialist EU law practice and is proposed activities) may or will have an impact on its a tenant at Brick Court. Together with Master members. One notable victory, although it would be Hugh Mercer, he promoted and developed churlish to claim it wholly as our own, was in relation to the ill-fated Garden Bridge project; once the TRA got its teeth the idea of the European Circuit. stuck in, no quarter was given and our present Prime Minister had to leave the field, vanquished. We also have Those members of Middle Temple fortunate enough to to deal extraordinarily frequently with the behaviour of have premises in the Inn are blessed indeed. History hangs dogs in our stunning gardens; needless to say, it is never a lightly, but all-embracingly, on our surroundings. We wake TRA’s member’s dog that comes across our radar (or rather to numerous (not always synchronous) chimes from the it appears that the attraction of our suggested ‘waste’ various bells in the vicinity. Temple Church is a constant composting sites may not be obvious to external pooches). reminder of our past and also our present, with mellifluous More seriously, the impact of the Pegasus project would music from the world-renowned choir and its top organist. have been extremely deleterious to the wellbeing of many Twilight descends over the various squares and courts, the of our members in terms of noise, general disturbance and gates close and peace returns to this special place. removal of residents’ facilities. Through the good offices of the TRA, Inner Temple and its contractors sensibly put in The Inn as a home is not just a near-perfect historic jewel, place mitigating measures for the benefit of the residents. something that has not escaped eagle-eyed film location Needless to say, we are monitoring the works closely as executives who frequently use the Inn for their productions they move through their various phases. and, happily for the Inn’s finances, pay well for the In addition to our summer party, we hold events through privilege. It is a vibrant, living community protected by the year and via our website (www.templeresidents.com), long established statutes, obliging the Inn to ensure that it we aim to keep our members up to date with all relevant is a place for the education and lodging of its members. developments. We are in fact so up-to-date that we have Accordingly, residential premises are reserved for members been recently holding remote meetings via Zoom. of the Inn: students, practitioners and retirees alike. We welcome new members with open arms, particularly if they are willing to serve on our Executive Committee! If One might think that reserved status would lead to a rather you are a resident but not yet a member, please feel free uniform approach to living in the Inn. Nothing could be to contact me by email at [email protected]. further from the truth, as is clearly shown for example by uk. As a Middle Templar, I can and will say that the Inn’s the annual summer party held traditionally in the Master’s esprit de corps, best captured by our toast to Domus, is wonderful garden. Lengthy disquisitions over copious alive and well in the TRA. refreshments range far and wide and the law rarely gets a look in. The Residents’ Association Millennium Bench And that brings me, somewhat late on the page, to the Temple Residents’ Association (TRA); the above- mentioned summer festivity is not organised by the Inn, but rather by the TRA. It comprises of residents from Middle and Inner Temple, a good example of harmony between them. That composition makes eminent sense given the proximity of the residents and common issues that affect them. Eminent sense and Baroness Elizabeth Butler-Sloss are inextricably linked and it is therefore no surprise that she conceived of the idea to create such an association over 40 years ago. Its aim is straightforward; to represent the interests of residents of both Inns, without fear or favour. Those interests have been tested in recent years, with Inner Temple’s Pegasus project and rent increases being but two examples. Bringing things even more up to date, the present lockdown has presented some of the residents, particularly those retired and/or on their own, with specific problems. The TRA’s community spirit did not disappoint, with younger members offering their services (suitably socially-distanced) to those in need. 2020 Middle Templar 119

THE COIC PUPILLAGE MATCHED FUNDED SCHEME The COIC Pupillage Matched Funded Scheme The Council of the Inns of Court (COIC) welcomes applications for matched funding for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 pupillages. The COIC Pupillage Matched Funded Scheme (PMF) It is a paradox that, despite the well-publicised difficulties helps provide additional pupillages in Chambers, faced by chambers like ours whose work is in the main and other approved training organisations, publicly funded, we continue to receive applications predominantly engaged in legally aided work. for pupillage from talented and committed candidates. Encouragingly, a growing number of Chambers are Chambers’ capacity to provide such pupillages has been applying for COIC matched funded grants. COIC a matter of real concern against a background of financial is set to support 34 pupillages in 2020. This is an uncertainty. impressive improvement on the Scheme’s first year of operation in 2014, when it supported 14 pupillages. In this context, the PMF has been of invaluable assistance since we joined it in 2017 and has allowed us to provide an How the Scheme works additional pupillage each year since then. It is a prerequisite of the Scheme that chambers The Scheme is of vital importance to sets like ours and understand that matched funded pupillages are in addition helps ensure that there is a continuing flow of well-trained, to those they would have offered in any event. COIC conscientious and able barristers to carry out publicly match pupillage funding already provided by chambers funded work. We are enormously grateful for its existence with a total grant of £9,450 for 2021-2022 London in unstable and challenging economic times. pupillages; £8,050 for 2021-2022 out of London pupillages; £9,550 for 2022-23 London pupillages; £8,150 for 2022-23 Avi Chaudhuri, Head of the Pupillage Committee, out of London pupillages – to fund the first six months 187 Fleet Street of an additional pupillage. Chambers are responsible for ensuring that the total pupillage award meets the Bar As a small Circuit set, Rowchester Chambers offers legal Standards Board’s minimum award for the year in question. advice and representation to a wide variety of areas of COIC appreciates that the receipt of grants is all the more law. In offering a broad pupillage in civil and criminal important to chambers during the global pandemic and law in 2020, chambers have been able to recruit a pupil are offering flexibility with the opportunity to defer awards whose expertise includes aviation law to complement where necessary. our large Family Immigration, Commercial and Criminal Law practices, amongst others. Chambers has offered How to apply pupillages in the past, but this has been infrequent and dependent on chambers’ needs. The PMF allows us to Applications to match fund 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 continue to offer pupillages to unique applicants who will pupillages are invited between Tuesday 1 September bring a varied perspective to both chambers and the Bar. 2020 and Friday 23 October 2020. Decisions will be Without this assistance, it would be likely that Chambers communicated during the week commencing Monday would continue to offer pupillages on a sporadic basis, 2 November 2020. Online applications can be made at which is not beneficial to the Bar or clients. Pupillage is www.coic.org.uk/pupillage-matched-funding important for diversity and for the future of the Bar. In the current economic climate and the effects of the pandemic, To find out more please email Hayley Dawes, pupils may become particularly important depending on COIC Secretary, at [email protected] how many practitioners remain in the profession, as well as the individual success of Rowchester Chambers going Mrs Justice Lieven, Chair, COIC Pupillage Matched forward. Funding Grants Committee 187 Fleet Street is a well-established London set Chris Gibbons, Pupil Supervisor and Paul Willstead, specialising in criminal law. We have a long tradition of pupil, Rowchester Chambers training pupils, many of whom have, on completing their pupillage, been taken on as members of chambers. 120 2020 Middle Templar

HALL COMMITTEE KAREN REID Hall Committee Karen Reid was Called to the Bar in 2010 clear demand for further sessions on the same topic as and practices as a member of 36 Public and virtual hearings, and subsequently hybrid hearings, have Human Rights at The 36 Group. Karen become more common and practitioners are keen to share became Chair of Hall Committee in 2020, their own experiences and concerns. This is something having been a member of the committee for which Hall Committee has been able to facilitate. We have three years, including Co-Vice Chair in 2019. also hosted a session on the financial issues which have arisen, providing practitioners with information on the Who are we? support which they may be able to access during this time. The Hall Committee represents ordinary members of On the social side, Hall Committee has launched a virtual the Inn – those who are post Call and are not Benchers. book club and we were delighted to have Master Peter This represents the majority of the Inn’s membership and Murphy lead the first discussion on his book One Law is a diverse group including those who are searching for the Rest of Us. Our second book was Rick Gekoski’s for pupillage; pupils; employed and self-employed Outside a Dog, which we discussed in June, followed by practitioners; judges; and those who are pursuing careers our third, Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo in outside the Bar. The committee itself has representatives July. We also organised a Pub Quiz in early July featuring across all of these stages, from different practice areas and multiple quiz masters from different sets of chambers across the country. across the circuits. Adjusting to the Pandemic Our increased use of technology has not been without its problems; one of my Vice Chairs had to take over When I chaired my first Hall Committee meeting in early moderating one of our panel sessions at the last second February, I could not imagine that it would be the last when my internet connection decided it did not want time I would see my committee in person for several to play ball, but overall it has been a success. We are months. Like all quarters of the Inn, Hall Committee has particularly grateful for the support and patience of the had to adapt and find new ways of working. We have Inn’s staff who have worked with us to continue providing started holding our committee meetings online and having services for members during lockdown. achieved 100% attendance by doing so this is something we are likely to continue, at least in part, once lockdown One of the advantages of making events virtual is that has lifted. attendees have been able to squeeze in an Inn event between the end of the working day and dinner. It has It has been disappointing to have to cancel or postpone also been easier for our members on Circuit to come to many of the events which we had planned throughout our events where otherwise they would have missed out, the year, in particular our Annual Dinner which normally and we as a committee have been able to draw on the takes place in the middle of May. However, the committee experience of those on circuit as panellists and speakers has worked hard to come up with virtual events to enable at events without the need for lengthy commutes. Whilst members of Hall to come together and to provide I am looking forward to seeing everyone back in person information and support for our members during this time. again soon, I hope that we remember the opportunities Our series of virtual panels covering issues encountered that technology has presented during lockdown and by members of the Bar as a result of the pandemic has continue to take advantage of these going forward. been hugely successful. Our first session on virtual courts saw Judges and practitioners share their experiences and Later in the Year advice early on in lockdown when remote hearings were becoming increasingly common in many jurisdictions. The We are hopeful that we will be able to welcome members advice matters discussed ranged from cross-examination of the Inn back into Hall for our events later in the year. over video to optimum microphone settings. There was Our Annual Dinner has been rescheduled to Thursday 5 November 2020 and we have our annual ceilidh to celebrate St Andrews day planned for Friday 27 November 2020. If these cannot go ahead, the committee will look for other ways to bring our members together. Staying in Touch You can contact Hall Committee by email on [email protected], we are always happy to hear feedback on our initiatives and suggestions for how we can support members of the Inn. Alternatively, you can contact me directly on [email protected]. You can also stay up to date with all the latest Hall Committee news and events by following us on Twitter – @MTHallCommittee. 2020 Middle Templar 121

MIDDLE TEMPLE YOUNG BARRISTERS’ ASSOCIATION MICHAEL POLAK Middle Temple Young Barristers’ Association Michael Polak is President of Middle Temple Young Barristers’ Association. He practises in criminal, international, and human rights law at Church Court Chambers. He is also a Director of Justice Abroad. Michael is committed to helping the junior Bar reach their potential as well as promoting the rule of law. Looking back to what now seems Inspiration, Self-Improvement, basics of sports law and a practical distant history, at the start of my and Career Development session on sports law arbitration. We Middle Temple Young Barristers’ also hope to run events on the Court Association (MTYBA) presidency in The ‘Inspiration, Self-Improvement, of Protection and Inquest law. January 2020, I decided to do and Career Development’ theme was something which has not be done broken down into four areas. The first The fourth area is focusing on before and set out my aims for our part is the Inspirational Speaker increasing the professional networks vibrant and hardworking organisation Series, for which we currently have of our members and involves in a plan of action. Although I was events lined up and ready to go for networking events with a number of slightly worried that this would either later in the year when this lockdown is different organisations. One such come across as pretentious over. The first event will be ‘Building a opportunity that we were particularly management speak, or like a Brand and Standing out from the excited about was an invitation for our small-time dictator’s missive, I decided Crowd’ with Myles Jackman, ‘The Committee and members to attend to press ahead anyway. I was very Obscenity Lawyer’. the Associazione Italiana Giovani pleased when I came up with the Avvocati (AIGA) Annual Conference in name for this plan of action: ‘I will call The second area of this theme is a Naples in April 2020, with the it “2020 Vision”’. I chuckled to myself. Practical Skills Series, teaching European Young Bar Association But it seems that the joke is now on essential skills, such as useful Committee, to maintain European me as I definitely did not see the computer programmes for barristers. links post-Brexit. Unfortunately, this pandemic and the subsequent event had to be cancelled because of lockdown coming. The third part is our Ancillary Legal Covid-19. We hope to be part of Areas Series. The aim of this is to something similar before the end of That plan of action contained three enable junior practitioners to develop this year. main themes for MTYBA’s activities their practices by learning the legal this year, to run alongside MTYBA’s and procedural structures for areas of Giving Back and Increasing Access usual broad range of activities to law that are ancillary to their main support those seeking pupillage, practice areas. In this series we have This is an area which is very close to barristers during pupillage, and those already had Middle Templar and my heart and something which I at the start of their careers. Those POCA expert, Colin Witcher, deliver believe would benefit our members themes were: ‘An Idiot’s Guide to POCA’ to a full and young people who need house in Tasker’s, an event which was 1. Inspiration, Self-Improvement, and very well received. We have also been Career Development; lucky enough to secure Richard Harry, Chief Executive at Sport Resolutions 2. G iving back and increasing access; and former Chief Executive of the Welsh Rugby Players’ Association, to 3. Supporting the Rule of Law and present a two-part series on the Lawyers Under Pressure. 122 2020 Middle Templar

inspiration and guidance. For this, I Supporting the Rule of Law and Regular Events approached the Renaissance Lawyers in Under Pressure Foundation, a fantastic organisation Our range of regular events have also working with young people from The third theme covers another area been adapted and we have been able disadvantaged backgrounds in which is close to my heart. It to hold our ‘Finding Your Feet’ event London. We agreed that our recognises the unique position of for those pupils going into their members could assist by acting as UK-based MTYBA members ,as second six months of pupillage, as mentors and coaches for their ‘I Can compared to lawyers around the well as a social online quiz. Do It’ programme. The programme world and even within the will help young people develop Commonwealth, in being able to Future events strategies for success by building their practise unencumbered by confidence and communication skills, governmental interference and threats Finally, although the lockdown has with the assistance of their mentor, as from the authorities. It also takes into prevented MTYBA from doing what well as opening their minds to the account our power to speak out in we enjoy the most, getting together possibility of a career at the Bar. regard to those barristers throughout for educational and social gatherings, Despite not being able to meet face the Commonwealth who need it has also provided an opportunity to to face, with the hard work of our support in their times of difficulty. consider new types of events. One of Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Emma these was the screening of the brilliant Hughes, we have been able to hold a The first event on this theme came film Dark Waters, which tells the story half day training session which about when I recently heard the news of lawyer Robert Bilott’s 15-year included the participation of the about the arrest of prominent Hong ordeal fighting for those whose health young people online, and have our Kong barrister and ‘father of has been severely affected by the follow-up meeting with them democracy in Hong Kong’, Martin Lee actions of a chemical company in imminently. When we are able to QC SC. This was especially shocking America. I was very pleased when meet in person, we intend to run to me after having had lunch with Robert agreed to speak after the sessions at inspiring locations, such as Martin in January 2020 in Hong Kong. screening of this film which is a great The Royal Courts of Justice, a At that meeting he had explained his example of what tenacity and commercial law firm, and the upcoming constitutional law commitment by a lawyer can achieve. Guildhall. challenge to the purported effort by You can read all about it in Hayley the Chinese authorities to disapply Blundell’s article. Hong Kong’s Basic Law from parts of Hong Kong’s territories, the train We also plan to hold an online Iftar terminal in this instance, which if event with a prominent Muslim allowed would severely limit the speaker, which should be enthralling. separate legal system provisions of the Sino–British Joint Declaration; it I hope that when you read this article, would mean that Hong Kong’s laws you are comforted by the plans can be disapplied at Beijing’s whim MTYBA has made that Covid-19 has anywhere within Hong Kong. not been able to stop. MTYBA will continue to work for our members. For this event, which was held online You are automatically a member of and was attended by over 100 of our MTYBA starting at the date of your members and those from the Middle Call to the Bar by Middle Temple and Temple Students’ Association (MTSA), continuing through to the later of Mr Lee spoke on a panel with seven years post-Call or seven years legislator and barrister, Dennis Kwok, post-pupillage. You can receive our and human rights activist and Hong newsletter by connecting with us at Kong Watch Director, Benedict mtyba.org. Rogers. After presenting fascinating talks on the attacks on the rule of law We have been able to run this strong in Hong Kong, the speakers fielded a programme because of my range of questions from participants hardworking committee: Treasurer, and a lively discussion ensued. Salman Hassanally; Secretary, Hayley Salmaan Hassanally, Treasurer of Blundell; Social Secretary, Ellen Crow; MTYBA, has gone into more detail in Communications Officer, Merlene his article inside this edition of The George; Pre-Pupillage Officer, Aimee Middle Templar. Stokes; Pupillage Officer, Jaysen Sharpe; Tenancy Officer, Shaylla MTYBA hopes to provide support in Shabir; Advocacy Officer, Louisa rule of law areas to young barristers in Simpson; Diversity and Inclusion the Commonwealth who are facing Officer, Emma Hughes; Northern difficulties because of the political Circuit Chair, Emily Landale; and regime they fall under and develop Wales and Chester Circuit opportunities for our members to Representative, Tabitha Walker. I am assist. of course indebted to my Vice President, Lauren Suding, for her support with these new initiatives and her assistance in keeping everything on track. 2020 Middle Templar 123

MIDDLE TEMPLE STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION CAMILA FERRARO Middle Temple Students’ Association Camila Ferraro is this year’s President of the The MTSA also launched the Plus2 scheme in January MTSA and is also a Jules Thorn Scholar. She 2020, which provided an official platform to connect was born in Colombia and raised in barristers and judges with students applying for pupillage. Cambridge. Camila is passionate about Students received tailored feedback on two pre-drafted international criminal law and advocates for pupillage applications over a 40-minute conference minority backgrounds at the Bar. Alongside call. We provided one-to-one support in an effort to her studies, Camila works as a Modern Slavery strengthen our student community’s pupillage application Support Worker at the Medaille Trust. submissions. In October 2019, the Middle Temple Students’ Association As President of the MTSA, I had the opportunity to (MTSA) launched its first series on International Legal represent the student body across the Executive, Hall, Topics. This followed from our appreciation that many Membership, Education, and International Committees. I of the students at the Inn came from international was involved in discussions ranging from the introduction backgrounds. The objective was to extend the dialogue of the ICCA Bar course to how the Inn may extend beyond the UK by inviting experts on international areas of its Hardship Fund to students experiencing financial law to share their knowledge and experience. difficulties during Covid-19. This ensured that student opinions were being heard when making these decisions. Our first speaker was Master Bruce Harris, who specialises in maritime arbitration. He spoke about the history In celebration of International Women’s Day, the MTSA and of International Arbitration and its importance in the MTYBA invited Masters Isobel Plumstead, Jo Delahunty world today. Our second lecture was delivered by and Elaine Banton, and Rebecca Major, to share their Master Christopher Greenwood, previously a judge of insightful and inspiring accounts of their experiences the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and currently an at the Bar. This was followed by classical performances arbitrator of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal. He discussed by soprano Francoise Berdugo and pianist Marco the formation of the ICJ and the mechanics behind its Perez, both scholars at the Royal Academy of Music. rulings, as well as the role of arbitration in preserving Furthermore, we collaborated with Barnaby Bryan, the diplomacy between states in conflict. Our third speaker Inn’s Archivist, who created a display demonstrating the was Master Mark Lyall Grant, the former British Permanent invaluable contribution that women have made to the legal Representative to the UN and also the National Security profession. Advisor under Theresa May and David Cameron. He explored the developments undergone by the UN to Building on the great achievements of the previous MTSA uphold international peace and security. Our fourth Committees, this academic year we held a Christmas Social guest was Master Edwin Cameron, former Justice of in the Hall and also ran a series of mooting and debating the Constitutional Court of South Africa and praised by workshops to help students develop their advocacy skills. Nelson Mandela as ’one of South Africa’s new heroes‘. He In collaboration with Master Simon Readhead, this year’s discussed the birth of prisons in South Africa, alternative committee continued to work with the Rolls Building ways of addressing inter-personal and social tensions, Art & Education Trust to help deliver a judicial insight and the advantages of restorative justice. Our fifth programme to students from minority backgrounds. lecture was given by HHJ Joanna Korner CMG QC, the 2020 UK candidate for the International Criminal Court’s We also collaborated with MTYBA and organised a Black (ICC) judicial elections and the former Senior Prosecutor Lives Matter (BLM) Panel Discussion to encourage a for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former conversation in the legal profession to contribute to the Yugoslavia. Lecturing on advocacy before international narrative surrounding the BLM movement. Our panellists, criminal tribunals, she described how language affects Master Elaine Banton, Courtenay Griffiths QC, Allison the dynamics of the trial, especially witness questioning. Munroe QC, Abimbola Johnson, Lola-Rose Avery, Aaron Our sixth speaker was Master Franklin Berman, who Mayers and Ife Thompson, made profound contributions was the Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth that facilitated a thoughtful and inspiring discussion. Office and has served for over 50 years in international To celebrate Pride, we held a Proud About Pride quiz law and diplomacy. He focussed on his appointment as with the theme of intersectionality. Students tested their an arbitrator between India and Pakistan under the Indus knowledge in several rounds to compete for a donation to Waters Kishenganga Treaty. Our seventh lecture was a designated charity. delivered by Master Vasanti Selvaratnam, who specialises in international trade and commercial law. She explored Thank you to my brilliant Committee for all their hard work. the position of English law in relation to international trade. I would also like to extend my gratitude to our speakers Overall, the feedback we received from our participants and participants, as well as the Inn’s supportive staff who was positive and we hope to make this a flagship series for have been tremendously helpful. the MTSA. It has been a privilege to serve as President of this year’s MTSA and I wish the incoming Committee all the very best. 124 2020 Middle Templar

NEW MASTERS OF THE BENCH 2019-20 New Masters of the Bench 2019-20 These Masters of the Bench were all Called to the Bench between September 2019 and July 2020, following their election by Parliament. They are Called by Master Reader in a ceremony held in Hall attended by their guests, fellow Benchers, members of Hall and students. After dinner, each of the new Benchers is introduced by Master Treasurer and gives a brief address. Bench seniority is determined by date of Call to the Bar for members of the Inn, and at the Treasurers’ discretion for Honorary Benchers. This list is in order of seniority, with the most recently called Bencher, ‘Master Junior’ at the end of the list. At each Inn event, ‘Master Junior’ replies to the Treasurer’s toasts to The Queen, Domus and Absent Members. During Covid-19, the Inn held it’s first ‘virtual Bench Call’ following a meeting of Parliament on Thursday 9 July 2020. A full list of Masters of the Bench can be viewed on the ‘Members’ section of the Inn’s website. The Right Honourable Richard Dame Cressida Dick DBE QPM Wagner, Chief Justice of Canada (Honorary) (Honorary) Commissioner of the Metropolitan The 18th and current Chief Justice of Police since April 2017, Cressida has Canada. Richard was sworn into office 36 years of public service, the majority on 18 December 2017. He received of which she has spent in policing. his Bachelor of Social Sciences in She became the first woman to be Political Science from the University of appointed a Metropolitan Police Ottawa in 1978 and his LL.L from the Assistant Commissioner in 2009. same institution in 1979. Called to the Quebec Bar in 1980, From 2011-14 she was in charge of UK counter terrorism he began practice at the Montreal law firm Lavery de Billy. policing, leading operational security and counter terrorist His practice centred on real estate, commercial litigation operations for The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the and professional liability insurance. He was appointed to London 2012 Olympics. In 2014 she joined the Foreign the Quebec Superior Court for the District of Montreal in and Commonwealth Office senior leadership team. Has a 2004. In 2011, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal of Master’s Degree in Criminology from Cambridge. Quebec. In 2012, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. Linda Greenhouse (Honorary) Sheila R. Block (Honorary) Linda is a lecturer at Yale Law School and a commentator for the New York Sheila is a trial and appellate counsel Times on the United States Supreme with a broad civil litigation practice. Court. She was the newspaper’s Former Chair of Torys’ Litigation and daily Supreme Court correspondent Dispute Resolution Practice, she for 30 years, and since 2010 has has held (and still holds) many roles, written a regular op-ed column on including: Chair of the Touching Tiny the Court for the Times’ opinion Lives Foundation; President of the pages. Her books include The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very The Harold G. Fox Education Fund; Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press. Founder and Trustee of the Foundation for International In extracurricular life, she is president of the American Arbitration Advocacy, Geneva; former Director of Philosophical Society, the country’s oldest learned society. Children’s Aid Foundation, Trillium Foundation; Chair of the Quadrennial Commission on Judicial Compensation Kate Davenport QC (2007-2011). She serves as Conduct Review Advisor for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and has taught Admitted to the New Zealand Bar in advocacy in Canada, the United States, England, Scotland, 1983, Kate was admitted as a solicitor France, Sweden, Switzerland, New Zealand, El Salvador, in England & Wales in 1988 and Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Brazil, India, Hong Kong and worked for Masons in construction Singapore. Sheila was Called to the Ontario Bar in 1974. law. On her return to New Zealand she became a barrister. Took Silk in New Zealand in 2013 and was Called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2015. She is a member of Outer Temple Chambers. Awarded the New Zealand Lawyer Barrister of the Year Award in 2013. She practises primarily in civil and commercial litigation. Currently President of the New Zealand Bar Association. 2020 Middle Templar 125

Her Honour Judge Tina Landale The Hon Mr Justice Jeremy Johnson Called to the Bar in 1988, Tina grew Called to the Bar in 1994, Jeremy up in West Yorkshire. She practised practised from 5 Essex Court in on the Northern Circuit specialising in general common law and public law, Crime. Her cases were dominated by often acting in cases involving the those involving vulnerable witnesses police and government departments. and defendants. She is particularly He was appointed as a Recorder in interested in promoting equal 2010, took Silk in 2011, a Deputy High opportunities for women. She was Court Judge in 2016 and a High Court appointed a Circuit Judge in 2015. She is married to an Judge (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2019. artist and has two grown up children. The Hon Mr Justice Martin Professor Fiona Wilcox Chamberlain Fiona is HM Senior Coroner for Inner Called to the Bar in 1997, Martin West London since April 2011. She is practised from 2000 at Brick Court an Honorary Clinical Professor, of the Chambers in London, focusing on William Harvey Research Unit, QMUL. public law, human rights, EU law and She is dual qualified in law (Called public international law. He took Silk to the Bar in 2008) and medicine in 2013 and was appointed a Deputy (qualified in 1986) and a Fellow and High Court Judge in 2016. He was Vice-President of the FFLM. chair of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association and was appointed to the High Court in 2019. Professor Alastair Mullis (Honorary) Teresa Hay A graduate of King’s College London and the University of Cambridge, Called to the Bar in 2001, Theresa is Alastair is a professor in the School of an established senior Junior, she is Law at the University of Leeds. He has a Grade 4 CPS advocate and highly been Head of the Law School since experienced defence counsel. She 2013 and Dean of the Faculty of Social is regularly instructed in serious and Sciences since 2019. His research complex cases. Practice areas include interests lie in the fields of tort law, serious general crime, rape and especially defamation and related wrongs, media law and sexual offences, fraud, and conspiracy aspects of international commercial law. cases. She also conducts private prosecutions on behalf of regulatory agencies, including the DVSA and MHRA, and Professor Laurence Gormley has previously acted for private trade mark and copyright holders. Called to the Bar in 1978, Laurence was the Inn’s first Bristow Scholar. Helen Mahy CBE He was Professor of European Law at Groningen from 1990-2019 (now Called to the Bar in 1982, Helen Emeritus) and is a Professor at the is chair of The Renewables College of Europe, Bruges. In 2015-16 Infrastructure Group, a FTSE 250 he was President of the European Law investment company, and a non- Faculties Association. Laurence is very executive director of SSE plc. She fond of Labradors. is also an Equality and Human Rights Commissioner and co- Richard Booth QC chair of Employers Social Mobility Alliance. She was formerly Group Company Secretary and Called to the Bar in 1993, Richard is General Counsel of National Grid plc. She was an elected Head of Chambers at 1 Crown Office member of the Bar Council and sat on the Bar General Row. He grew up in South Wales Management Committee. before taking degrees in Cambridge and Brussels. He specialises in clinical negligence, professional discipline and sports law, and has sat as a Recorder on the Wales Circuit since 2008. Richard took Silk in 2013. He enjoys live music, theatre and sport, being a keen follower of Welsh rugby. 126 2020 Middle Templar

Dr Mathilda Twomey The Rt Hon Mrs Justice Karen Steyn A Seychellois, Mathilda graduated Called to the Bar in 1995, Karen from the University of Kent with a BA practised from 11KBW, specialising in English and French Law in 1986 in public law, human rights, public and was Called to the Bar of England international law and information and Wales in 1987. She practised in law, and took Silk in 2014. She was Seychelles as a barrister. She later appointed a High Court Judge obtained an LLM in Public Law and (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2019, a PhD in Law from the National having served as a Deputy since 2016. University of Ireland. She was a member of the Seychelles She is married to Alex Glassbrook (also a Middle Templar) Constitutional Commission in 1993 which was charged and they have two sons. with drafting the third constitution of Seychelles. She was appointed the first female justice on the Seychelles Court Geraldine Peterson of Appeal in 2011 and the first woman Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Seychelles in 2015. Geraldine ws born in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan and educated in Sara Hossain Western Canada. Before reading Law at Cambridge (Lucy Cavendish), she Called to the Bar in 1989, Sara has worked as an actor/director and in the been practicing at the Supreme Court Fine Art market. Called to the Bar in of Bangladesh for over 25 years, and 1997, she specialises in immigration is currently Deputy Head of Chambers and asylum law. Teaches on the at the law firm of Dr Kamal Hossain Middle Temple pupil advocacy programme. and Associates, focusing on the areas of constitutional law, public Kate Grange QC interest law, and family law. She serves pro bono as the Honorary Executive Director of the Called to the Bar in 1998, Kate is Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST). from Nottingham and read Law at Cambridge before joining the David Casement QC Bar. She has a broad practice with emphasis on national security, human Called to the Bar in 1991 as an rights, immigration, tort, commercial Astbury Scholar, David took Silk in and construction. She took Silk 2008, was appointed a Recorder in in 2017 and is a Lead Counsel to 2005 and a Deputy High Court Judge the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. She has a particular interest in 2013. In 2013, he co-founded in equality and is a Bar Council ‘maternity mentor’. the British Irish Commercial Bar Appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2019. Association which he now Chairs. His practice is in commercial and Guy Perricone (Honorary) chancery litigation and arbitration. His appointments include being a Judge of the International Court of Appeal After qualifying as a solicitor with of the Fédération Internationale De L’Automobile. Linklaters, Guy worked for 20 years in investment banking at Juliette Levy Salomon Brothers, SG Warburg and ABN AMRO. In 2005, he left Called to the Bar in 1992, Juliette investment banking to become specialises in commercial, chancery Managing Director of the Institute of and telecommunications law. After Contemporary Arts in London. From starting her career in a set now 2009-13, he was Chief Executive of the Associated Board dissolved, followed by 11 years at of the Royal Schools of Music. He was Under Treasurer Selborne Chambers, she set up from 2013 to 2020. He was, until 2018, the Chairman Cerulean Chambers in 2016. She is a and Treasurer of the Council of Christ’s Hospital School. member of the Hall Committee since Currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Royal 2012 and was its vice-chair from 2014-15 and chair from Academy of Dance, a member of the Council of the 2016-19. Her work with Hall Committee has been focussed National Army Museum and a trustee of the Gabrieli on supporting junior members, ensuring that members Consort & Players. unlock the opportunities that participation in Inn life has to offer them. 2020 Middle Templar 127

NEW STAFF AND LEAVERS Gerard McGahon Gerard joined the Estates Department New Staff as a Surveyor in December 2019, with over 19 years of experience Katrin Bohland across the commercial, retail and Katrin joined the Events department in residential sectors. October 2019 as the Events Manager, having worked as the Assistant Events Faiso Mohamed Manager at London Zoo and CH & Co. Faiso joined the Human Resources Department as the HR Officer in August Jonathan Boyd 2019, having previously worked as a HR Jonny joined the Education Coordinator for Memery Crystal LLP. Department as the Education Office Assistant in November 2019. He has Bernard Oppong-Kyekyeku since been promoted to the role of Bernard joined the Inn’s Security team Education Services Coordinator. He in October 2019, having previously previous worked as an Online Fulfilment worked as a Security Guard at Show Assistant at Blackwell’s Bookshop. & Event Security. Nicola Callander James Rogerson Nicola joined the Events Department as James re-joins the Inn as Development the Events Sales Executive in December Officer, having previously worked as 2019, having previously worked as the Membership Officer in the Membership Meetings & Events Sales Executive at Department. The Royal Horseguards Hotel. Andrew Stow Alexandra Evans Andrew joined the IT Department Alex joined the Inn’s Garden team as the Digital Content Manager in in March 2020, having worked as a October 2019, having previously Seasonal Gardener at Hampton worked as the Digital Content Manager Court Palace. at the College of Podiatry. Fiona Healey-Hutchinson Francesca Tate Fiona joined the Development Francesca joined the Archive Department as Associate Director Department as the Projects Archivist of Development in September 2019, in October 2019, having previously having worked as an Independent worked as a Volunteer Archive Assistant Consultant for Bankside Open Spaces at the Scottish Jewish Archives. Trust, SASBAH, Animal Welfare Charity, Charleston Farmhouse and many more. Francis Leeder Francis joined the Membership Department as the Membership Officer in August 2019, having previously worked as an Events & Marketing Coordinator in the Education Service at the Diocese of Westminster. 128 2020 Middle Templar

Leavers and Retirements The Inn thanks the following members of staff who have retired or left Middle Temple for all their hard work and wishes them well for the future. Anne Atkinson Ernest Knight Head of Catering and Events Cleaner Chloe Bernard Bogdan Neaga Events Sales Executive Chef de Partie Siobhan Cawkwell Tamara Obeng Events Manager Online Communications and Services Manager Isabel Corr Mark Taylor HR Administrator Commercial and Operations Director Nicholas Dinnall Migena Toci Estates Security Officer Human Resources Officer Sarah Hankinson Bill Windsor Assistant Students Officer Head of Facilities MERCHANDISE 129 at Middle Temple Luxurious leather-bound notepads, silk scarves and ties or cute Barrister Bears – Middle Temple has a range of beautiful gifts available to purchase from our website. To view the full collection visit: middletemple.org.uk/merchandise For queries and information please call 020 7427 4800 2020 Middle Templar

OBITUARY: MASTER DONALD NICHOLLS JOHN NICHOLLS QC Master Donald Nicholls 1933 – 2019 Donald was born on joined Lever Brothers in the study law. Unable to afford the Wednesday 25 January 1933 in registrars’ department, embarking substantial premium at that time Bebington on the Wirral. Early upon various courses run by the needed to obtain articles to a tragedy struck when his mother Chartered Institute of Secretaries. solicitor, he decided that, once he died when he was aged just One of the subjects was the had graduated, he would like turn his six. His father remarried but elementary law of contract, which was attention to the Bar. He joined then spent most of the war Donald’s first exposure to the law and Middle Temple in 1955 with the aid of years in India, not returning which instantly fascinated him. a Blackstone Entrance Scholarship. until 1946. However, when he obtained a first National Service then intervened for class degree, the dean of the law In the meantime, Donald at the age two years but during that time his faculty at Liverpool suggested he of 10 won a scholarship to parents reconsidered their previous should seek to further his legal Birkenhead School. He left school at opposition to Donald attending a education at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 16 and then (having been rejected by university, and in September 1953 Donald spent two years at Trinity Hall, Lloyds Bank, where his father worked) Donald duly became the first studying part II of the Law Tripos and member of his family to do so when the LLB course, obtaining a starred he went to Liverpool University to first in each. Master Nicholls with the Queen Mother in 1997 It was at Cambridge that Donald first met Jennifer Thomas, a fellow undergraduate reading law and also a student member of the Middle Temple (indeed, he had previously spotted her in Middle Temple Hall while they were each eating their dinners). They were to wed a few years later, and to remain blissfully happily married for almost 60 years. Jenny survives Donald, as do their three children. After Donald’s exceptional academic results, he was offered a law fellowship at Trinity Hall, but he declined this, instead taking Bar finals (obtaining a certificate of honour, working largely from the lecture notes made by Jenny for her own earlier Bar finals) and being Called to the Bar by Middle Temple in November 1958. With the benefit of further scholarships (including a Harmsworth Scholarship from the Inn), he then joined the chambers of Harold Christie at 13 Old Square, Lincoln’s Inn, initially as the pupil of Peter Oliver (later Lord Oliver of Aylmerton) and then as a tenant for the next 25 years. Donald’s practice as a junior was largely Chancery based, and his advice and advocacy were soon in considerable demand. He took Silk in 1974, and his practice became ever broader and more high-profile, both in England and abroad. 130 2020 Middle Templar

Donald was appointed a High Court Reynolds, the former Taoiseach of wonderful views over Fountain Court Judge in the Chancery Division in Ireland, against the Sunday Times). including of the planted border on 1983 and knighted. He heard front Donald also sat as a judge of Hong the North East side which he had page news cases involving Elton Kong’s Court of Final Appeal. helped to instigate. In his year as John, Terry Venables, and Arthur Treasurer, Donald was delighted to Scargill and the National Union of Donald’s manner in court was as in welcome to dinner in the Inn the Mineworkers. He was, amusingly and the remainder of his life; modest and Queen Mother as one of its then aptly, nicknamed ‘the Don’ by his even somewhat shy, he was Royal Benchers; it was Donald who judicial clerks. In 1986, he was unfailingly calm, patient and that summer represented the Inn at elevated to the Court of Appeal, courteous. In his judgments, he Westminster Abbey at the funeral of whereupon he became one of Her would always seek to identify the the Inn’s other Royal Bencher, Diana, Majesty’s Privy Council. He was principles at stake and then explain Princess of Wales, following her tragic enormously honoured and pleased at them and their application as simply death in Paris. that point to be elected an honorary and succinctly as possible. And at the fellow of Trinity Hall, appointed core of Donald’s thinking in every In retirement, Donald had more time President of Birkenhead School, and decision were the words which he to pursue his other interests, notably awarded an honorary doctorate in chose for his Coat of Arms (and for gardening, walking, reading and law by Liverpool University. his 2015 autobiography), Let Equity music. Above all, and as was always Prevail. the case, he loved spending time In 1991, Donald was appointed with Jennifer, their children and their Vice-Chancellor, as the head of the Throughout his professional career, families, and a particular highlight Chancery Division was known at that Donald was an active member of the was a magnificent family weekend at time, and subsequently from 1994 Middle Temple. He lunched in Hall Cliveden to celebrate his 80th until 2007 a Lord of Appeal in every day for many years. He became birthday. Ordinary. In the latter role, he gave a Master of the Bench in 1981, a seminal judgments on matters as Trustee in 1983 and ultimately Donald died on Wednesday 25 varied as torture (the extradition of Treasurer in 1997. He and Jennifer September 2019 with his family by his Senator Pinochet), divorce (White v lived during the week in a flat at the side. Details of a memorial service to White) and libel (claim by Mr top of Devereux Chambers, from celebrate his life will be announced in where they were able to enjoy due course. Leave a Gift in Your Will Your lasting gift will become part of the Middle Temple history, giving students and pupils from all backgrounds the assistance they need to continue their studies. The Inns have been the gatekeepers for the rule of law for centuries and a bequest will keep that heritage alive for generations to come. Any gift, whether small or large, will make a lasting difference to Middle Temple and help students and young barristers about to achieve their potential. Leaving a gift in your Will is a wonderful way to let your passion for justice and the law live on, long into the future. For more information please contact [email protected] Development Department The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple Ashley Building, Middle Temple Lane, London, EC4Y 9BT 2020 Middle Templar 131

OBITUARY: MASTER PAT EDWARDS MASTER MARILYNNE MORGAN Master Pat Edwards 1944 – 2020 Master Pat Edwards, who has died of acute to return last year and was much involved in the planning. myeloid leukaemia, was a distinguished She was so looking forward to the trip but sadly was too ill government lawyer who in retirement was one of to attend. She made many friends out there, one of whom the most supportive and hardworking Benchers wrote after her death: ‘There was something about her, of this Inn. One of her last visits to the Inn was to something utterly genuine, warm and yet ‘‘flinty’’, that attend the opening of the Women in Law made me admire her from our first meeting’, a description exhibition in which she featured. with which all her friends can agree. Pat was Lent Reader in 2017; no one present will forget her Patricia Mary Edwards was born on Monday 29 May 1944, Reading on the theme of London’s Burning, given in a Hall the daughter of Marion and Maurice Edwards, a marine lit with red flames, while Pat herself wore a dress surveyor. She spent her childhood in Wales until 1958 when appropriately flecked with red and gold. the family moved to London. Following a state school In 1970 Pat married Roger Cox, a member of Gray’s Inn, education, she read law at King’s College London from then practising at the Bar (he later became a Circuit 1962 to 1965, the first in her family to attend university. She Judge). On becoming Reader, Pat was enthralled by the had no family connections with the law and no one, College of Arms’ suggestion that she could use a punning including Pat herself, knew quite what sparked the reference to her married name in her coat of arms, in aspiration to become a lawyer. After studying for Bar Final peacock feathers (‘P Cox’). exams by correspondence course while working full-time, Pat’s interests were not exclusively at Middle Temple. For she was Called to the Bar on Tuesday 18 July 1967; she was years she was involved in organisations and charities in and awarded the Chrystal Macmillan Prize by Middle Temple around Dulwich, where she continued to live after Roger’s for being the woman member with the highest marks in death in 2009. In 2018 she was awarded a BEM for her local her finals that year. charity work. It was typical of Pat, who was essentially a very private person, that she never spoke of this. She Pat did not do a pupillage in chambers. In those days it always enjoyed travelling, in later years often with her was quite common to go straight from Call into mother Marion. Marion died last August, aged 99. Within a employment as a barrister. Pat had worked at the Criminal few weeks Pat was taken ill with pneumonia and diagnosed Appeal Office, which supported judges of the Court of with leukaemia; despite weeks of gruelling treatment she Appeal (Criminal Division), while doing Bar Finals, and died peacefully in hospital on Friday 24 January 2020. A stayed there as a qualified lawyer for a further seven years, memorial service will take place in Temple Church when latterly as Deputy Assistant Registrar. In 1974, she secured circumstances allow. a post in the Law Officers’ Department – a highly unusual move which reflected how well Pat was thought of, rather Master Edwards during the 2013 trip to North Carolina than being recruited directly its legal staff were seconded from the government legal service and at a more senior level. One of the things she did there was to be joint secretary to a public inquiry, another unusual opportunity for a junior lawyer. In 1977 she moved to the Home Office where she was to stay until 1994. There Pat did the more conventional work of a government lawyer, drafting legislation, advising on issues from immigration to dangerous dogs, negotiating international treaties and getting involved in litigation in the ECJ and ECHR. From 1994 to 1996 Pat was Deputy Parliamentary Ombudsman, and in 1996 was appointed to her last post, Legal Director of the Office of Fair Trading, heading a team specialising in competition and consumer protection law. She retired in 2004. Pat became a Bencher in 2003. She was a member of various committees, but particularly the Scholarships and Prizes Sub-committee, which she chaired between 2014 and 2018. Pat was always careful to spend time with students and was a good role model for them. She regularly volunteered for scholarship interviewing and attended moots. In 2014 she took part in the mooting excursion to the University of North Carolina. She was due 132 2020 Middle Templar

OBITUARY: MASTER BERTRAND DE SPEVILLE MASTER ROBERT SEABROOK Master Bertrand de Speville 1941 – 2020 Master Bertrand de Speville, who died peacefully Master de Speville and his wife, Carol at his home in Kew on Sunday 29 March 2020, was born in Durban, South Africa. The de change uncannily and ‘always seemed to be in front’. As a Speville family was well connected in France but skipper, unusually, he never raised his voice even with an with a strong presence in Mauritius, from where incompetent crew. He captained the British Universities both of his parents came. Bertrand’s father, a sailing team and sailed with Castaways. In Hong Kong he successful civil engineer, brought his family to excelled and became President of the Hong Kong live in Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia (now Yachting Association from 1992 to 1995. He managed the Harare in Zimbabwe), where Bertrand and his Hong Kong Olympic sailing teams for Seoul in 1988 and three sisters spent their childhood. Atlanta in 1996. At the latter he stole the headlines by scooping Hong Kong’s only gold medal winner in Olympic Bertrand (‘Burd’ as he was known at school, or ’Bertie‘ as history, Lee Lai San, off her wind-surfing board as she he was known to his many friends) was sent to St George’s surfed up to the quay side. He was one of the first two College, a Jesuit school in Harare, where I met him at the umpires appointed for the America’s Cup for the final age of 11. He was a popular schoolboy and a champion between USA and Italy in San Diego in 1992 and he diver, with a touch of mischief and unfailing good humour. became an Olympic Games juror. It was said that he For his friends, it was something of an exotic pleasure to ‘applied his quick legal mind to resolving rules issues in visit the de Speville French speaking home, with different world sailing’ – not an easy task as anyone who sails will customs, delicious and different food and three lovely know. sisters. After leaving Hong Kong, Bertrand headed an anti- Like many ‘Rhodesians’ at the time, Bertrand came to corruption consultancy, which took him to 51 different England in 1960 to read law at UCL. Following his Call to countries, advising governments and institutions. His book, the Bar in 1964, he completed pupillages with both Master Fighting Corruption: The Essentials was translated into a John Griffiths and the late Master Patrick Mayhew. He was dozen languages. He believed that ‘policy’ was not the given tenancy in the chambers of the late Master George way to fight corruption because the execution of policy Bean (father of Master David Bean) and shared a room with was so often entrusted to the corrupt. There has to be a Master Alan Moses at 1 Temple Gardens. They were hard process, independent of government, that protects the times. The ‘staple diet’ was careless driving briefs for anonymity of the complainant. This put him at odds with Amery Parkes, then the AA’s solicitors, and two or three the World Bank. What was essential was ‘good guinea brief fees did not go a long way. Master Moses governance, good citizenship and good process’. In 2012 describes how they often went to the cinema together in he was awarded the Gusi Peace Prize to honour the afternoons or played a game called ‘leggy’ with a contribution to global peace and progress, in Manila in the tennis ball in their room. He recalls them working by Philippines, for his anti-corruption work. candlelight during the ‘three-day week’. He adds: ‘He was really too nice and too measured to make a success at the His election as a Bencher in 2007 gave Bertrand immense Bar’. He was tough and had a quiet strength and patience pride and joy. Domus was where so many of his legal roots and never complained about a lack of work. The only time and friends were. Although he maintained a delightful he was cross was when Master Moses lost their typewriter, family home in Mauritius, Britain had long ago become his on which they typed their draft Particulars of Claim, with home. He is survived by Carol and their children and carbon paper copies, and which he had left on a train. families, who will miss him greatly. He was a loving family man and a dear friend. Bertrand left Chambers and joined the then Customs and Excise. But not for long. Master Griffiths, who was by this time Attorney General in Hong Kong, persuaded Bertrand to join the Government legal service there. He wanted to recruit a number of ‘super poms’. It was in Hong Kong that Bertrand showed his worth and made his mark. In due course he became Solicitor General in 1991, followed by Head of the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption in 1993, a position which he was widely thought to have held with distinction until ‘hand over’ in 1997. In Hong Kong Bertrand’s formidable sailing talent was recognised and flourished. He had begun his sailing in a small reservoir near Harare. He could anticipate wind 2020 Middle Templar 133

OBITUARY: MASTER SIMON KVERNDAL MICHAEL HOWARD QC Master Simon Kverndal 1958 – 2020 My dear friend Simon Kverndal Garrick and the Shipwrights were Simon had, from the outset of his QC died, far too young at 62, places where he could exercise his career, been a member of Quadrant on Sunday 14 June 2020, enormous talent for friendship, for Chambers in its successive iterations. peacefully, and surrounded by bonhomie without superficiality, for About a dozen strong when he his immediate family. Many wide-ranging conversation and for joined, Chambers membership is members of Quadrant could charm at all times. It was a matter of now almost 70. Always approachable, have written those awful words; great pride to him that he had always ready to help or advise, he but I have the advantage of become Prime Warden of the was much-loved throughout having known Simon longer Shipwrights this year, and it is sad Chambers, not merely by his than most. indeed that he was unable to contemporaries, but from senior Silks complete his term of office. to junior juniors and even pupils, as a It is often said of people who have flood of sorrowful emails and lived with long illnesses that they He was well-known for his real WhatsApp messages attests. For fought them courageously. Simon expertise in matters of wine. He had Simon, Quadrant was another club. certainly did that; but he also bore his a blue (technically, a half-blue) for He put in many hours sitting on other affliction with discretion and with wine-tasting as well as real tennis. He less glamorous committees where he cheerfulness. Until very recently, he served on the wine committees of would offer sage advice on the kept the awareness of the illness from the Garrick, the Shipwrights and of organisation of legal institutions and which he had been suffering for more the Middle Temple, in essence yet the clubs of which he was a member. than two years from all but a few of another club, where he was a The London Shipping Law Centre his intimates, and even to them he Bencher. Not many Silks can point to and the Lloyd’s Salvage Working was always upbeat and cheerful. For articles in Decanter in their CVs. party were among those to whom he him, his chemotherapy clinic was a lent his spare time and commitment. ‘cocktail lounge’. As it happens, Simon did not So also, was his local church, to mention them in his CV either, whose doings he was quietly but Though in many ways a typical because at bottom he was a serious firmly committed. English gentleman (a recurring theme professional. He was a hardworking in many of the tributes which have and popular silk. Having always been This was a full life indeed; but it is already started to pour in), as his a diligent and fluent advocate, he right to end where I began – with surname suggests he was ultimately had blossomed in addition into a very Simon’s family. For all his love of wine, of Norwegian stock. His family were effective arbitrator, renowned for his music, friends, sport and conviviality, part of the shipping industry for pleasantness and efficiency and, an Simon’s chief interest and concern at several generations, and one branch unusual gift, for getting the right all times was his family. No-one who had come to England and settled answer. Relatively recently he had knew him could doubt that the centre here in the 19th Century. But he started to act as a mediator and his of his focus was Sophie, on whom he remained proud of his Norwegian personal qualities were generating a doted, with his two sons only just roots. Most summers he went with his rapidly growing and enthusiastic behind. Their loss is a shocking one; family to the lakeside cabin in following. and so is ours. Norway he shared with his Norwegian cousins. His sons were Master Kverndal during a game of racquets named Thor and Finn in tribute to their forefathers. The word clubbable might have been invented for Simon. He was a member of Hawks, Queen’s, the MCC, the Garrick and the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights. The first three announce his sporting prowess. He was good enough at racquets to play in the national Amateur Racquets Championship when over 40, good enough at real tennis to play for Cambridge for four years, being captain for two, the latter possibly a unique distinction. The 134 2020 Middle Templar

OBITUARY: MASTER DAVID EVANS MASTER HOWARD GODFREY Master David Evans 1944 – 2019 David Howard Evans QC died on Saturday Master Evans’ chambers at 33 Chancery Lane 9 November 2019 after an incredibly brave fight (Copyright – 33 Chancery Lane) against cancer. He was 75. David was Called to the Bar in 1972, took Silk in 1991, and was made something that many clever lawyers never grasp. In truth, a Bencher in 2004. He came to the Bar with David was in his element at the Bar. A fine speech maker, three degrees and a career at the Treasury always aimed at the jury, he was never pompous and under his belt. never gave any impression of superiority. When he sat down his client felt that no one could have done better. Was was born in Rugby on Thursday 27 July 1944, just weeks after D-Day. On leaving school he went to the To those of us privileged to have worked with him in London School of Economics (LSE), graduating with a numerous cases, he will perhaps be best remembered as BSc in Economics, followed by a Masters specialising being hysterically funny. He was a gifted mimic with the in Banking. From LSE he joined the Treasury as an ability to see the funny side of things. When away from Assistant Economic Adviser, becoming a speech writer for London conducting trials away from home, he was the George Brown at the Department for Economic Affairs life and soul of the party, but always looked forward to in the Harold Wilson government. This was a period of returning home to his beloved wife Anne and sons, who economic turmoil, culminating in the great devaluation of he adored. 1967. In 1968 David changed course. He left The Treasury and went to Oxford to read law at Wadham College, In his final year in practice, in 2013, he was engaged in a completing his degree in two years. When at Oxford he long fraud trial in Gibraltar when he was suddenly taken met his future wife Anne, marrying in 1973. They were a ill and had to return to London for major emergency devoted couple. She survives him together with their two surgery. Prior to that tragic event, he had, in 40 years of married sons, Oliver and Edward, and five grandchildren. practice, never missed a day in court through ill health. After pupillage with Master Jeremy Connor, David Compelled through ill health to retire, and suffering from became a tenant at the chambers of William Howard QC incurable cancer, he was as brave and uncomplaining as at 3 King’s Bench Walk, which merged with the chambers anyone could imagine. Supported by his loving family, he of Master Dan Hollis in 1982 at Queen Elizabeth continued to travel when he could, especially to visit his Building (QEB), subsequently known as ‘Hollis Whiteman sons who were, by then, living in the USA and Israel. His Chambers’ when joined by Peter Whiteman QC. David was a rare breed. It was a privilege to know him and work practised at QEB until 2010 when he joined 33 Chancery with him. He is, and will be, sorely missed. Lane, the chambers of Andrew Mitchell QC. David thrived at the Bar. He was a born advocate with a commanding presence, and a fine criminal lawyer. He both prosecuted and defended. Before taking Silk, he was appointed by the Attorney General to the list of Supplementary Treasury Counsel and prosecuted ‘heavy’ cases at the Old Bailey. On taking Silk, he still prosecuted for a while but then developed a busy leading defence practice, specialising in complex frauds. He was instructed in many ‘high profile’ fraud cases, too numerous to mention, but perhaps the best known of which was the ‘Blue Arrow’ case, instructed by UBS. His ability to understand, and be prepared to challenge complex financial detail, stood him in good stead. He had an amazing grasp and sense of which parts of the evidence really mattered. He used his powers of advocacy to maximum effect, with great skill, but never at unnecessary length. On the contrary, his advocacy was concise and to the point, leaving no one in doubt that he knew exactly where he was going with his questions. He was a formidable cross examiner, and never feared taking witnesses apart, even ‘expert’ witnesses, when instructed that they were in error. He also had an instinctive feel for what would appeal to the jury, 2020 Middle Templar 135

OBITUARY: MASTER OWEN STABLE VICTORIA STABLE Master Owen Stable 1923 – 2019 Dad was born in London in 1923, to Lucie and as they chugged off to the station in the snow. Owlie, in their flat in Olympia but then, when not away at school, spent his childhood at their home, Dad and his brother both took Silk in 1963, and Dad was Plas Llwyn Owen, Llanbrynmair, in mid-Wales. A made a Bencher of Middle Temple in 1969. 2 Crown Office magical house, still cherished by our cousin James Row was such a distinguished set of Chambers, that later and his family, and where Dad continued to have became Fountain Court. Dad was enormously proud of many holidays all through his life – with all the fact that the late, great Lord Bingham, was his pupil in generations of family, black Labradors and 1959/1960 and he, Dad, was able to watch Tom’s fine career springer spaniels – rough shooting, family cricket to Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice and finally the on the lawn and picnics in the rain. Nothing has Senior Law Lord. Dad always said, of course, he had taught really changed, except the cast of characters, and Tom everything he knew (tongue firmly in cheek). the central heating, over the last hundred years. I can’t talk about Dad’s career without mentioning the He had a very happy childhood, the adored youngest of dreaded Robert Maxwell, who cast such a long shadow. three children, his brother, Philip, and his half-sister Fiona, In 1969, Dad was appointed as one of two inspectors Granny’s daughter from her first marriage. to investigate the financial shenanigans behind the sale of Pergamon Press, Robert Maxwell’s publishing He went to Horris Hill prep school, and then on to company. After three long years, the inspectors reported Winchester College. He loved Winchester, blissfully back that Robert Maxwell was not, in their opinion, fit untroubled by the future sporting blues and intellectuals it to run a publicly quoted company. This was brave stuff is famous for, but it must have seeded his lifelong loves of because Maxwell was a very wealthy, litigious bully and sacred music, cathedrals and, he insisted, brown bread ice he appealed against this ruling, which fortunately was cream. thrown out. But the City Establishment chose only to remember that Maxwell had appealed, and much to Dad’s Dad joined the Rifle Brigade straight from school, aged despair and chagrin, instead of going to prison for serious 17, one year into the War, but he then contracted severe fraud, Maxwell got back into business within a few years, meningitis, which took him out of any further active service. ultimately buying up The Mirror Group Newspapers. In I am just glad he survived, and was able to follow his very 1991, when Maxwell was found drowned in the Atlantic distinguished father, Wintringham, aka Owlie, later a High having fallen off his boat, did the depth of his long-term Court Judge, and Philip, his brother, into a career at the criminality come to light; he had been looting millions Bar. He was Called to the Bar in 1948 by Middle Temple of pounds from The Mirror’s Pension Fund to shore up and joined Mr. Scarman’s Chambers at 2 Crown Office Row. his other companies. Although it did take 20 years, it was a very sweet ‘I told you so’ moment for Dad, as Sky In 1949, Dad was acting as his father’s Marshall when News, ITN and the BBC all traipsed out to Snaresbrook to Grandpa was on Circuit. A dinner was given for some interview him. dignitaries and Dad’s job was to make sure it all went smoothly, and everyone got fed, including the visiting Although he believed in fun, he knew that life was serious drivers. One of whom, was sitting outside, in the freezing and precarious, which is probably what made him a good car with the dogs. Dad was told by one of the guests, a Judge, eventually becoming Senior Presiding Judge Major Holliday, that his ‘driver was fine, because it was his at Snaresbrook Crown Court. Dad was very proud of daughter, and she’d got some sandwiches’. Well, I think Snaresbrook and loved his time there. According to people you can imagine Dad’s reaction to that?. The driver was who have written to us, he had a profound effect on the duly hauled in to dinner (which she probably hated). That is staff and the atmosphere, as it seems it was a happy place how Yvonne, our lovely mum, met Dad. to work. He loved the HR element to the job. His door was always open, and he liked knowing everyone and taking an After the birth of Emma and I, and once established interest in what was happening to all of his staff. in Perry Green, Dad threw himself into building up his practice. He worked like a demon, writing up pages of Dad had immaculate dress sense and always looked reports, in that immaculate, blue-black handwriting – the terrific. I am sure he was the last man standing to wear anxiety of getting to court and conferences every day on spats; Dad would play it down, and say they were just to time, with the dodgy trains, must have been a challenge. keep his feet warm. Well, he did have some summer ones Dad was once witnessed having been snowed in at as well! So we know he wore them because they were Bucklers, being driven to the station, by our dear farming smart (he even mowed the lawn in them). He was always neighbour, John Prior. Dad was standing up on the back of elegant whether in the white dinner jacket, the Panama John’s tractor, immaculate in his bowler hat and overcoat, hats, the seersucker suits, using giant silk handkerchiefs, with rolled umbrella and briefcase, looking like a charioteer beautiful Italian silk ties, and always the tie pin. Towards the end of Dad’s life, he was still able to tie his own bow tie, long after he had forgotten where he lived. 136 2020 Middle Templar

OBITUARY: MASTER VICTOR GLOVER RASHAD DAUREEAWO SC Dad was very generous, whether with his time, presents of red wine, clanking up to her door at the Rectory. or hospitality. He loved introducing his great nieces and nephews to opera and classical music, taking every I have to mention his love of Italy and the wonderful opportunity to march them off to the Theatre Hafren in holidays we had. Mum, Emma and me doing the mid-Wales. He was such an optimist. One great niece, Renaissance, and Dad counting the knives and forks in the Rhiannon, wrote to us this week, saying how when she Michelin Guide for where we were to have lunch. He used got her Degree, one would think she had won the Nobel to drive us heroically through France and Switzerland to Prize for Science, such was Dad’s enthusiasm. She also get there. His only grasp of foreign languages was limited said that, as a small child, she thought he was called Great to ordering a gin e tonica and asking for the bill. Uncle Owen, because he was just so great. He adored entertaining, with Mum, whether Sunday lunches at home, My thanks to Emma, who gave up her very successful or dinners and lunches in Boodles; his club he loved so career as a Film Editor in Australia, to come back to Much much. I am sure many of you in this Church have probably Hadham years ago, when the ship was beginning to had one or other of them, and I hope you’ve all tasted one founder – first to help look after Mum and then to give Dad of his memorable White Ladies. such a happy time at home for as long as possible, helping him do all the things he liked, watching the racing, looking In 1995 he retired from Snaresbrook and had to learn how smart, and sitting in the drawing room, with Bertie, and a to occupy himself without annoying Mum. Trips back to large gin and tonic. Plas Llwyn Owen, with his adored black Labradors, and his return to playing the flute occupied his time. In Much This excerpt was taken from Master Stable’s daughter’s Hadham, Elizabeth Abbot was Dad’s patient accompanist, eulogy given at his funeral on Monday 16 December and she remembers fondly the sound of Dad, with bottles 2019. With kind permission, it has been edited and re- produced for the Middle Templar. Master Victor Glover 1932 – 2020 On Sunday 2 February 2020, the sad news of Sir the “tente bazaar” you will never have the experience Victor Glover was announced. He departed this of ground reality of common man to dispense effective world painlessly and peacefully. I consider it my justice’. It became clear from his judgement that he was privilege to have known him since I joined the Bar, more concerned with the principles of fairness and justice in 1971, and witnessed his ascending judicial in application of the law. career throughout different jurisdictions and positions held. Socrates described the attributes of a good judge as: ‘To hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly and Sir Victor had a brilliant academic record. He read law at to decide impartially’. Sir Victor held all these qualities. Oxford University and was Called to the Bar in 1957. He The present generation of judicial officers have in him an joined the Attorney General’s Office in 1962, after having excellent role model and a source of inspiration. He never practised at the Bar. He served in different capacities, believed that to be effective and efficient one has to be including that of Parliamentary Counsel. He held several stern and an authoritarian. Sir Victor had ‘les pieds sur posts and became judge of the Supreme Court at the terre, la tête sur les èpaules, le coeur rempli d’humanisme’. age of 44. In 1982, he became Senior Puisne Judge, He will always be remembered for his jurisprudential before being elevated to Chief Justice in 1988 until his contribution and his quiet, dignified and passionate retirement in 1994. In 2010, he was appointed, amongst commitment for justice. Sir Victor wrote in one of the other responsibilities, as Chairman of the Presidential MMTA’s magazines the following: ‘And why should not our Commission of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. effort bring about a desire by members of the other Inns of Court to follow suit? That can only be for the improvement Sir Victor was elected a Bencher of the Inn in 1992. The of fellowship and good relations between all the members Mauritius Middle Temple Association (MMTA), founded of the Mauritius Bar’. He is a great loss to the legal in 2008, was lucky to have Sir Victor Glover as our first fraternity, the judiciary and the Republic of Mauritius. Honorary President. He had a rich and accomplished career and he will be remembered by all those who had The MMTA extends to the entire bereaved family our known him in whatever capacity, as a highly respectable heartfelt sympathies, especially to Gavin and Brian. The and respected person with a great sense of humanity, huge presence of personalities of all walks of life, gathered humility and simplicity. I remember meeting him at the at the funeral held at Notre Dame de Lourdes, manifest the marketplace; he confided in me: ‘Unless you carry regularly love and affection and deep sense of loss. May his soul rest in peace. 2020 Middle Templar 137

OBITUARY: MASTER ROY MARTIN MASTER STEPHEN HOCKMAN Master Roy Martin 1950 – 2019 Members of the Inn, and of his chambers at Six The Faculty of Advocates is an intellectual bourse. Stocks Pump Court, were shocked and saddened to rise and fall. Roy proved to be a ‘blue riband’ share from learn of Roy’s passing in August 2019, at the age the outset. Solicitors and clients clamoured for his services. of 69, after a short illness. He became the ‘go to’ counsel for important inquiries, such as those concerning the Harris super-quarry, the ICL He was Called by Middle Temple to the Bar of England Stockline explosion, and Edinburgh Trams. and Wales in 1990 and took Silk here in 2008. He had a flat in the Inn where he spent much time in his later years and He rose early to prepare his cases and brought his served the Inn as a member of the Estates Committee. considerable intellect to his written and oral work. But his study door was always open. The family could ask for his His roots however remained in Scotland, and we are advice and support at any time. indebted to Lord Stephen Woolman, who sits as a Senator of the College of Justice in the Inner House in Edinburgh, His fellow advocates recognised Roy’s fine qualities. They for permission to use the following extracts from his bestowed on him their highest honour by electing him eulogy, delivered at Roy’s memorial service in the Chapel Dean of Faculty. He served in that office with distinction, as of Loretto School. he had previously done as Vice Dean. He championed the interests of every member of Faculty. Although proud of his Paisley upbringing, Roy was not technically a ‘Buddy’. He was born in a nursing home in Why did Roy not become a Senator of the College Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. of Justice? That question has exercised many minds, including his own. My view is that his independence was He and his younger sister Candy were always close. But too precious to him. He prized the buccaneering aspect of annual holidays in the car did not bring out their best. his role. That is evident in the ‘Bench and Bar’ painting that Their father Robert built a wall of luggage on the back seat hangs in the box corridor of Parliament House. It shows to avoid strife. Their mother Janet did not believe that her Roy addressing a full bench of judges with undisguised children fought. brio. Holidays played an important role in Roy’s life. In March Latterly, he found it highly rewarding to sit as an appeal 1984 he met Fiona, when they were both skiing in judge in the Channel Islands. In late June 2019 he issued Switzerland. He glimpsed her across a crowded bar. He the leading judgment in a case involving an abstruse point was smitten. Soon he realised that she was the love of his of Jersey trust law. In a concurring opinion, the senior life. Their wedding took place later that year. judge of Jersey, the Bailiff, paid tribute to the ‘clarity and insight‘ of Roy’s opinion. Rory, Camilla and Phoebe arrived and enriched the texture of life. They bonded over dogs, cars and horses. The Roy had a fine mind, one he kept constantly engaged. children recall familiar scenes. Waiting for a breakdown Whether it was politics, law, or syntax, Roy had a view. lorry to tow some exotic car, perhaps the Lagonda, back to Often, it was a decided view. He would advance it the garage. Roy transforming himself into a man of the turf with power and skill. It was therefore best to know his with a keen interest in point to point competitions as well prejudices. as the occasional flutter. But he was always open to counterargument. He enjoyed Roy often told affectionate stories about his family. The big and small questions. A discussion on the use of the droller his tone, the more evident was the great bond of semi-colon might breeze without friction to Brexit, horse- love that he felt. He was a devoted husband and father. racing, or Blower Bentleys. That was shown clearly at the wedding of Rory and Emily in April of this year. Roy was so happy and proud. Roy liked to socialise. He proclaimed himself a boy from Paisley but moved easily in all company. Whether asking After Paisley Grammar and the University, Glasgow (never for directions in the East End of Glasgow, or lunching at Glasgow University, according to ‘stickler’ Roy), he was the New Club or the Garrick, he treated everyone the articled to a firm of Edinburgh solicitors, where he stayed same. on after qualification. It was always fun to be in his company and a lottery win to He then elected to try a career at the Bar. He devilled be placed beside him at lunch or dinner. Like his favourite to two distinguished lawyers: Arthur Hamilton & Robin drink, champagne, he fizzed. McEwan. Roy passed advocate in 1976 (again being a stickler, he insisted that no-one was ever ‘Called’ to the But he was man of great integrity. He did not break a Scots Bar). confidence entrusted to him. If manners maketh the man, then Roy was a made man. He displayed exquisite courtesy on all occasions. 138 2020 Middle Templar

OBITUARY: MASTER BRIAN LEARY CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Master Brian Leary 1929 – 2020 Master Brian Leary died peacefully at his home in In 1964, while at an International Bar Association Mexico City on Saturday 15 February after a conference, Brian met the daughter of Kenneth Bannister three-year struggle with dementia. CBE, a prominent member of the British business community in Mexico. Brian and Myriam were married in Brian was a New Year’s Baby, born in Stockwell, London April 1965 and in May that year my mother and I (as his to Mildred and Albert Leary. Albert was a prosperous stepson), with the cocker spaniel, travelled to London. osteopath while Mildred worked for the Palmer Tyre Company until devoting herself to home and children full- Brian was a dedicated husband and father, and he moved time. The family lived in Beckenham and took holidays at us to The Old Rectory in Ightham, Kent in April 1967. The their house in Bognor Regis. beautiful Georgian rectory had large grounds and Brian and Myriam set up a nursery selling herbs, including Brian attended the King’s School, Canterbury. During the sending them all over the country by mail order. war, the school was evacuated to the Carlyon Bay Hotel in Cornwall where he said he much enjoyed himself. A gifted Brian rarely missed the skiing season, wintering in Verbier student academically, Brian won a scholarship and was and St Moritz, but his great passion was yachting, and as captain of the Colts, until his lifelong asthma curtailed his his retirement approached Brian bought a 67ft schooner, sporting activities. which had earlier been seized by Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise. Brian spent many happy seasons sailing the After school, Brian served in the Army in Greece as the 1st Caribbean on the TS Robert Gordon. Officer of the British commanding General’s boat, which he used after the war to move around the country. It was most Upon retirement, Brian and Myriam moved to Myriam’s likely this experience that resulted in his lifelong passion beautiful properties in Mexico City and Acapulco and for all things nautical. enjoyed a pleasant retirement. Brian was active in the British Community and worked at the British charitable After his military service, Brian took a break and organisation in Mexico, ’Amistad’ (meaning friendship), barnstormed around the country as the announcer at devoting himself to helping the education of less motor races, but went to Wadham College, Oxford as a advantaged children. At least one pupil sponsored by Harmsworth Scholar, where he earned his MA. Amistad has since risen to ministerial level in the Mexican government. During his retirement, Brian learnt Spanish, At the suggestion of his friend, John Matthews, Brian joined the International Association for Arbitration, and joined the Middle Temple in January 1950 and was Called represented various American industrial companies in to the Bar in 1953, practising criminal law at the Chambers Mexico. of John Matthews at 5 Paper Buildings throughout his career. In October 1964, Brian was appointed to the Brian loved to spend time at the family beach house in Treasury Counsel as Fourth Junior Prosecuting Counsel Acapulco, swimming, and windsurfing, and in Mexico City to the Crown at the Old Bailey. By May 1971, he was never missed social events at the British Embassy. appointed Fifth Senior Prosecuting Counsel. A hard worker, Brian read his briefs in the early morning hours A lifelong humanitarian and vegetarian, and an before driving up to London, and usually withdrew to exceptionally witty, charming, and intelligent man, Brian his study after lunch on Sundays to prepare for the week was also exceedingly kind and loving. He is missed by ahead. Myriam, his stepson Christopher, a grandchild Julia and by his sister, Maureen Perrins, mother of Brian’s nephew and It was during his years at the Treasury Counsel that Brian’s niece, and his goddaughter, Anna Greenacre. most high-profile cases were prosecuted, including The Trials of Oz pornography case, in which Brian secured a conviction, opposed by his long-time friend, barrister and playwright, John Mortimer. Notwithstanding the conviction, subsequently overturned on appeal, the defendants appreciated Brian’s’ treatment of them, and we received a Christmas card every year from one of them, Felix Dennis, who went on to become one the richest men in the UK. Brian’s style at the Bar was professional and detached, but as a man he was kind and extremely charming. As Treasury Counsel Brian prosecuted the last capital case in Bermuda. Brian took Silk in 1978 and travelled the South Eastern Circuit, though his cases took him far and wide, including Hong Kong and Gibraltar. 2020 Middle Templar 139

OBITUARY: MASTER EDWARD ZACCA Master Edward Zacca 1931 – 2019 Sir Edward Zacca, the former President of He was educated at Kingston College and Called to the the Court of Appeal of Jamaica, passed away Bar by Middle Temple in February 1954. After a spell in on Sunday 10 November 2019. private practice in Jamaica, he was appointed as Clerk of Courts in 1958. Two years later, he was appointed Resident Sir Edward, a Jamaican, served on the Bermuda Court of Magistrate, and eight years after that, he became a Puisne Appeal for 18 years until his retirement in 2014, passed Judge before his appointment as Judge of Appeal in 1975. away at home after a short illness. He was 88. He was appointed a Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal for Sir Edward became Chief Justice of Jamaica in July 1985, Bermuda in 1996 and served as President from January and six years later he was made Acting Governor-General. 2004 to the end of 2014. He was involved in at least 180 In 1992, he was appointed to the Privy Council. More reported judgments during that time. Larry Mussenden, recently, he served in the Courts of Appeal in the Turks and the Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions, Caicos Islands, the Cayman Islands and the Bahamas. He noted Sir Edward’s extensive service in leading judiciary was knighted in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours for his roles in Bermuda and across the Caribbean. Mr service to the Overseas Territories. Mussenden said he was able to learn from Sir Edward’s vast experience while he served as a defence lawyer. He The Gleaner in Jamaica reported that a minute of silence said: was observed in Sir Edward’s honour on the day of his passing at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court. Sir Edward was able to recognise who the parties were that were Paula Llewellyn, the Director of Public Prosecutions in appearing in front of him. He was able to relate to the average Jamaica, told The Gleaner: person and figure out exactly what was going on. This meant he could get right to the heart of the case as he made his decisions. I’m almost speechless. He was such a pleasant, urbane and We could all learn from the way he committed himself to his courteous individual who was committed to service throughout cases and understood the law, and his experience over many the region. He will be remembered as one of the great judicial years of analysing cases and making good judgments. officers. Mr Mussenden offered condolences on behalf of the Outside the courtroom, Sir Edward’s interests in his Department of Public Prosecutions Office to Sir Edward’s younger years included tennis, swimming, and gardening. family. He added: ’We are very grateful for his contribution He is survived by his wife, Hope Margaret, and his children, to the judiciary’. Christopher, Edward Jr and Karen. Sir Edward was born in St Andrew, Jamaica, in July 1931. Reproduced and edited with permission of The Royal Gazette In Memoriam The Inn is sad to announce the passing of the following members in the past year. Masters of the Bench Members Roy Martin Esq QC His Honour Sir Clive Callman The Rt Hon the Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead Daniel Alexander Rahnavard Esq The Rt Hon Edward Zacca KCMG OJ PC Paul Stephenson Esq David Evans Esq QC John Collins Esq His Honour Owen Stable QC Ms Caroline Fraser Ms Pat Edwards John Lee Esq Sir Victor Glover GOSK Matthew Seligman Esq Brian Leary Esq QC The Hon Mr Justice Adolphus Godwin Karibi-Whyte Bertrand de Speville Esq Miss Renata Jurenko Simon Kverndal Esq QC 140 2020 Middle Templar

TEMPLE CHURCH DIARY Temple Church Special Services, through to Easter 2021 We expect to be streaming all these services on our YouTube channel*. Arrangements for ‘live’ congregations in Church will be subject to the Government’s instructions and guidelines. 2020 2021 October January Thursday 1 October, 17:45 Wednesday 6 January, 17:45 Special Choral Evensong for the Start of the Legal Year Epiphany Carol Service Sunday 4 October, 11:15 Sunday 10 January, 11:15 First Choral Mattins of the Legal Year Choral Mattins: First Choral Service of Term Wednesday 28 October, 17:45 Wednesday 13 January, 17:45 Choral Evensong: For All Souls’ and All Saints’ Days Choral Evensong: Followed by Treasurer’s Reception for Benchers November Wednesday 27 January, 17:45 Sunday 8 November, 10:50 Choral Evensong: Candlemas Choral Communion: Remembrance Sunday February Wednesday 11 November, 17:45 Choral Evensong: 100th Anniversary of the laying to Wednesday 17 February, 17:45 rest of the Unknown Warrior Choral Evensong: Ash Wednesday December March Wednesday 2 December, 18:00 Sunday 28 March, 11:15 Advent Carol Service Choral Mattins: Palm Sunday Sunday 13 December, 11:15 April Temple Church Carol Service, followed (in a normal year) by Christmas Lunch Thursday 1 April, 13:15 Choral Communion: Maundy Thursday Wednesday 16 December, 18:00 Temple Church Carol Service Friday 2 April, 11:15 (Repeat of 13 December) Choral Mattins: Good Friday Thursday 24 December, 11:15 Saturday 3 April, 20:00 Choral Communion: Christmas Eve Easter Vigil: Holy Saturday Friday 25 December, 11:15 Sunday 4 April, 11:15 Choral Mattins: Christmas Day Choral Communion: Easter Sunday Sunday 18 April, 11:15 Easter Carol Service *Temple Church YouTube channel – youtube.com/channel/UCKhpEEGN5N4hclynXPKwI6w 2020 Middle Templar 141

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WEDDINGS AT TEMPLE CHURCH Congratulations! The Inn would like to congratulate the following couples who were married in Temple Church and wishes them all the best for the future! MIDDLE TEMPLETHE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF THE Emily Wood and Michael Bancroft, Natalie Pendrous and John Oxley, married Saturday 5 October 2019 married Saturday 12 October 2019 (© Douglas Fry Photography) (© Chris Taylor Photo (Norfolk) Ltd) Henrietta Hughes and Rohil Kumar, Mary Matthias and Ellis Knight, married Saturday 30 November 2019 married Saturday 25 January 2020 (© Holly Clark) (© Kevin Mullins Photography) Loretta Pang and Cedric Weber, Charlotte Shanks and Craig Evans, A stunning, award-winning venue in married Sunday 2 February 2020 married Saturday 15 February 2020 the heart of London, and a unique (© Still Miracle) (© Philippa Sian Photography) setting for a magical wedding day Contact us today to discuss your 2020 Middle Templar requirements [email protected] 020 7427 4820 middletemplevenue.org.uk 143

MIDDLE TEMPLE CALENDAR – 2020-21 Middle Temple Calendar 2020-21 Please note that ALL dates below are subject to change because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Education Department will be publishing a full calendar of Qualifying Sessions on the website. Events will be run remotely where possible. If events are run on-site, they may be subject to reduced capacities. 2020 November December September Wednesday 4 November Tuesday 1 December MTYBA Advocacy Competition Bench Call Thursday 24 September (Round Three) Ways of Working in a post Covid-19 Thursday 3 December World (collaborative virtual event with Thursday 5 November Private Guest Night The Malaysian Middle Temple Alumni Annual Dinner – TMMTA) Friday 4 December Sunday 8 November MTYBA Christmas Party October Sunday Lunch (Remembrance Sunday) Monday 7 December Monday 5 October Tasting at the Temple Treasurer’s Lecture Monday 9 November Treasurer’s Lecture Wednesday 9 December Wednesday 7 October MTYBA AGM Hall Committee: Virtual Courts Wednesday 11 November (virtual event) Survive & Thrive Thursday 10 December Revels Tuesday 13 October Tuesday 17 November MTYBA Advocacy Competition Reader’s Feast Friday 11 December (Round One) Revels Wednesday 18 November Friday 16 October LGTBQ+ Forum Annual Dinner Sunday 13 December Hall Committee TempleFest or Quiz Carol Service and Lunch Saturday 21 November Monday 19 October CPD Day Tuesday 15 December Scholar’s Dinner Parliament Dinner Sunday 22 November Tuesday 20 October Children’s Concerts Monday 21 December MTYBA Advocacy Competition Staff Christmas Drinks with Benchers (Round Two) Wednesday 25 November Call Day (Double) Tuesday 22 December Monday 26 October Hall closes Tasting at the Temple Thursday 26 November Call Day (Double) Tuesday 27 October Moot Final Friday 27 November Hall Committee Ceilidh Friday 30 October MTYBA Annual Dinner Friday 27 November Midland Circuit Dinner (Nottingham) Saturday 28 November Northern and North-Eastern Circuit Joint Dinner (Liverpool) 144 2020 Middle Templar

2021 March June January Thursday 4 March Thursday 3 June Clerks’ Dinner Celebration of the Arts Dinner Monday 4 January Hall re-opens Thursday 11 March Tuesday 8 June Private Guest Night Bench Call Wednesday 13 January Treasurer’s Reception Wednesday 17 March Thursday 10 June Amity Dinner with Inner Temple Private Guest Night Wednesday 20 January (at Middle Temple) Reception for New Benchers Monday 14 June Wednesday 24 March Moot Semi-final Saturday 23 January Call Day (Double) Burns Night Wednesday 16 June Thursday 25 March BACFI and Employed Bar Garden Tuesday 26 January Call Day (Double) Party Reception for Committee Members Friday 26 to Saturday 27 March Monday 21 June February European Amity Dinner and Moot Semi-final Conference (at Middle Temple) Monday 1 February Wednesday 23 June Tasting at the Temple April Reader’s Feast Tuesday 2 February Tuesday 30 April July Bench Call Music Night Thursday 1 July Monday 8 February Thursday 1 April Music Night Treasurer’s Lecture Hall closes Tuesday 6 July Friday 12 February Monday 12 April Middle Temple Garden Party Music Night Hall re-opens Tuesday 13 July Saturday 13 February Tuesday 13 April Bench Call Ordinary Dining Night Bench Call Thursday 15 July Sunday 14 February May Private Guest Night Sunday Lunch Friday 7 to Sunday 9 May Wednesday 28 July Thursday 25 February Four Jurisdictions Law Conference Call Day (Double) Private Guest Night (at Middle Temple) Thursday 29 July Monday 10 May Call Day (Double) Oxford Society Dinner Friday 30 July Monday 17 May Hall closes Tasting at the Temple August Tuesday 18 May New Silks Reception Tuesday 31 August Hall re-opens Tuesday 18 May Music Night Thursday 20 May Annual Dinner 2020 Middle Templar 145