International Committee
Executive: Natalie Darby
Chair: Marion Smith KC– 39 Essex Chambers
Vice-Chair: Charles Hale KC- 4 Paper Building Chamber
Vice-Chair: David Josse KC– 5SAH
Vice-Chair: Frederico Singarajah – Gatehouse Chambers
Members:
Alexander Brown KC – One Essex Court Garden
Simon Milnes KC– Twenty Essex Chambers
Alex Potts KC - 4 Pump Court
James Potts KC - Erskine Chambers
Rory Brown - South Square
Pedro Caro de Sousa - European Commission
Fahrid Chishty - G37 Chambers
Sarah Gaunt - 2 Hare court Buildings
Samantha Granger – House of Commons
Birgitte Hagem – CPS
Alex Haines – 4 Pump Court
Naomi Hart - Essex Court
Amrit Kaur Dhanoa - 4-5 Gray's Inn Square
Katie Lines - 4-5 Gray's Inn Square
Tetyana Nesterchuk – Fountain Court Chambers
Michael Polak - Church Court Chambers
Baldip Singh - No5 Barristers’Chambers
Andrew Stevens – Quadrant Chambers
Tom Street – Quadrant Chambers
Kirsty Sutherland – 9 Bedford Row
Nina Tavakoli – Red Lion Chambers
Nancy Williams – Doughty Street Chambers
Sarah Williams - Forsters Chambers
The Terms of Reference of the Committee are:
a. To promote the standing and the interests of the Bar internationally;
b. To support the rule of law internationally;
c. To keep abreast of international developments;
d. To inform and educate the Bar about international developments and opportunities;
e. To further the objectives above by cooperation between the Bar and legal professions abroad and by participation in the work of international legal associations and professional bodies;
f. To influence international legal developments;
g. To support the strategic aims of the Bar Council as published.
Chair: Adrian Berry KC
Originally set up in 2016 as the Future Relationship Working Group to examine practice rights issues post-Brexit, it became the ITWG after the UK-EU relationship was settled, and its terms of reference are:
- To inquire into international legal services trade and market access questions referred by the IC, the EC or of its own initiative, and provide expert advice and, where appropriate, offer policy proposals, to IC, EC and Bar Council leadership
- To identify opportunities for the Bar, including but not limited to those arising from the UK's ongoing trade discussions, for the IC to launch or renew engagement with underexplored markets