Previous winners

2022

Employed Barrister of the Year in the Public Sector

Winner: John Swords, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Shortlisted:

Aarti Thakor, Charity Commission for England and Wales
Sam Littlejohns, Government Legal Department

Employed Barrister of the Year in a Law Firm

Winner: Charlotte Pope-Williams, Pinsent Masons

Shortlisted:

Clare Strickland, Blake Morgan
Melanie Gavin, Ward Hadaway

Employed Barrister of the Year in Commerce, Finance, or Industry

Winner: John Battle, ITN

Shortlisted:

Niamh McCarthy, International Airlines Group

Legal Team of the Year

Winner: Government Legal Department, Department of Health and Social Care legal team

Shortlisted:

Cabinet Office: Commercial Policy Team
Government Legal Department: National Security and Counter Terrorism Team

Employed Barrister of the Year in the Armed Forces

Winner: Cdr Caroline Tuckett RN, Lead Legal Advisor – International Law, Naval Legal Services

Shortlisted:

Maj Neil W Keery AGC, Legal Advisor Standing Joint Command (United Kingdom), Army Legal Services

2020

Employed Barrister of the Year

Sirah Abraham, Crown Prosecution Service
Deborah Gould, Crown Prosecution Service (West Midlands)

Winner: Simon Regis, Department of Health and Social Care Legal Advisers, Government Legal Department

Outstanding Barrister in a Law Firm

Peter FitzGerald, Peters & Peters Solicitors
Alex Potts KC, Conyers

Winner: Patrick Rappo, DLA Piper

Outstanding Barrister in Commerce, Finance or Industry

Alex Potts KC, Conyers

Winner: Adrian Berrill-Cox, Financial Conduct Authority

Outstanding Employed Barrister in an NGO

Sara Carnegie, International Bar Association's Legal Policy & Research Unit
Amanda Clift-Matthews, Death Penalty Project

Winner: Alison Pickup, Public Law Project

Outstanding Employed Barrister in the Armed Forces

Winner: Commander Eunice Marland, Royal Navy

2018

Employed barrister of the year

Mike Jones KC, CPS
Elizabeth Prochaska, Equality and Human Rights Commission

Winner: Katherine Willerton, GLD

Young employed barrister of the year

Bethan Evans, CPS
Jonathan Orde, GLD

Winner: Catherine Yardley, CPS

Outstanding achievement by a public service barrister

Duncan Richie, CPS
Janine Wood, CPS

Winner: Aoife Drudy, GLD

Outstanding achievement by a barrister in a corporate organisation or solicitors firm.

Phillip Souta, Clifford Chance
Polly Sprenger, Katten Muchin Rosenman UK LLP

Winner: Grant Warnsby, BP

Employed advocate of the year

Emma Jordan, Taylor Wessing
Nicholas Khan KC, European Commission Legal Services

Winner: Alistair Grainger, Reeds Solicitors/Reeds Chambers

Outstanding performance by an HM forces barrister

Major Jennifer Agnew, Army Legal Services

Winner: Commander Ian Park, Royal Navy

Exceptional Contribution to the Employed Bar

Mari Reid, CPS
Paul Richmond, Richmond Chambers LLP

Winner: Ros Wright CB QC

2017

Employed barrister of the year

James Hanlon, IKEA
Nigel Povoas, United Nations

Winner: Camilla de Silva, Serious Fraud Office

Young employed barrister of the year

Michael Fry, DLA Piper
Jamie Johnston, Government Legal Department

Winner: Matthew Johnston, Government Legal Department

Employed advocate of the year

Simon Heptonstall, Crown Prosecution Service
Philip Bennetts KC, Crown Prosecution Service

Winner: Matthew Gowen, Birketts LLP

Outstanding achievement by a public service barrister

Thomas Reveley, Government Legal Department
Dominic Alexander, HMRC

Winner: David Browitt, Government Legal Department

Outstanding achievement by a barrister in a corporate organisation or solicitors’ firm

Guy Micklewright, Blake Morgan LLP
Jamie Hunt, ACCA

Winner: Hannah Laming, Peters & Peters

Outstanding performance by a HM Forces barrister

Air Vice Marshal Lindsay Irvine, RAF
Major Christopher Storr, Army Legal Services

Winner: Commander Carolyn Kenyon, Royal Navy