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Closing date: 17 March 2019
Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of 108 barristers and solicitors as new Queen’s Counsel (QC). The title of QC is awarded to those who have demonstrated particular skill and expertise in the conduct of advocacy.
Her Majesty has also approved the appointment of 6 new Honorary Queen’s Counsel (QC Honoris Causa). Their biographies are listed below. Honorary QCs are awarded to lawyers and legal academics that have made a major contribution to the law of England and Wales outside practice in the courts.
On 11 March 2019, the Lord Chancellor will preside over the appointment ceremony at Westminster Hall, where he will formally bestow the title of QC upon the successful applicants and award the honorary QCs.
Lord Chancellor David Gauke said:
I congratulate each of the 108 barristers and solicitors who are to become Queen’s Counsel and also the six Honorary Queen’s Counsel on their forthcoming appointments. The award of the title of Queen’s Counsel is a recognition of depth of expertise and eminence in their fields. It is this expertise that gives the English legal system its world-leading reputation.
Professor Mads Andenæs is a leading academic and has been recommended for his work in the fields of comparative and international law, in familiarising academic and practising lawyers and the judiciary in this jurisdiction with other systems of law and by encouraging exchanges of views and approaches between common and civil lawyers. He has written many books on the subject and has established a series of annual seminars on pressing issues as seen from European Supreme Courts. This was inaugurated by a seminar in the UK Supreme Court with the participation of a number of leading UK practitioners and judges. He was also member and Special Rapporteur in the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and contributed to its report « Basic Principles and Guidelines » (2012). This report has been referred to in UK Supreme Court judgments.
Professor Sue Arrowsmith is the author of the principal treatise used by practitioners and academics in the field of public procurement law, which has been formally recognised as an authoritative work of reference by the courts. She also founded the Public Procurement Law Review in 1992 (and has remained General Editor since then), providing information and debate on legal developments for both practice and academia. She is Director of the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham, the pre-eminent European centre for public procurement research and teaching, which she founded there in 1998. For more than 20 years she has organised a major international conference on procurement at Nottingham bringing together policy makers, practitioners and academics. She has made a substantial contribution to the reform work of many international committees on public procurement, including (for more than 20 years) the European Commission’s independent Advisory Committee, the UNCITRAL Expert Committee and the World Bank Advisory Group, and recently was appointed as Expert to the Task Force on procurement of the International Partnership Against Corruption in Sport.
Professor Richard Fentiman is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Cambridge where he was formerly Chair of the Faculty of Law. He is internationally acknowledged as a leading scholar in his field and is recognised especially as an expert on the law and practice of international commercial litigation. He is the author of two major works, International Commercial Litigation (2015) and Foreign Law in English Courts (1998), and of numerous other publications. His work, which emphasises the law’s practical context, has contributed both to legal scholarship and to the law’s development. His writings are frequently cited in the courts of England and other common law jurisdictions and he has been extensively involved in law reform in England and internationally. His expertise and distinction have been recognised by invitations to give evidence to Parliamentary committees and advise public bodies in the UK, including the Financial Markets Law Committee, and to represent an English law perspective in the work of international institutions such as the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the European Commission and the European Parliament. Through his work on international co-operation in civil justice he has promoted understanding of English law beyond the UK, particularly within the European Union.
Jonathan Jones is the Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department (GLD). He has brought together all Government legal teams to establish a unique legal shared service for the GLD. He has played a critical personal role in providing legal advice to the Government under the exceptional circumstances of Brexit. He has also demonstrated great drive to improve diversity and inclusion, both within the GLD; across the wider civil service as its most senior Health & Wellbeing champion, where he has championed initiatives to improve the working lives of all civil servants; and in the legal profession, where he plays an active role in legal training for new barristers. He also contributes to the education of barristers in his role as a Bencher of his Inn.
Professor Charles Mitchell is one of the outstanding and most respected academic authorities on the law of unjust enrichment and the law of trusts. He has written books on subrogation; on contribution and reimbursement; on unjust enrichment; and on trusts. His work on the most recent editions of Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment has proved invaluable in cases which have come before the Supreme Court. He has shown dedication to bridging the gap between theory and practice, through his development and clarification of the law, including particularly difficult areas of law where conflicting authorities make underlying principles hard to discern.
Professor Thomas Glyn Watkin is an academic who has also served the Welsh Assembly Government as its first principal Legislative Draftsman. His book, The Legal History of Wales, published in 2007, is the first comprehensive history of law in Wales from the Roman invasion to devolution. He is the general editor of the University of Wales series The Public Law of Wales. He was centrally involved in establishing and building the legislative drafting capacity of the Welsh Government – in both English and Welsh – in the initial years of primary legislative devolution for Wales. Prior to that, he was the founding head of the Law School and first Professor of Law at the University of Wales, Bangor.
A total of £18 million government and industry funding has been awarded to projects developing the next generation of immersive experiences. Using virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality, the projects will create cutting-edge immersive experiences which will be tested at scale on real audiences.
The projects are part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund’s audience of the future programme, delivered through UK Research and Innovation. Through this programme, government is helping the most talented storytellers across the UK create engaging immersive experiences.
The demonstrator projects will develop immersive experiences in 3 areas; sports entertainment, performance, and visitor experience.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) will lead a consortium of 15 specialist organisations from the theatre, music, video production, gaming and research industries to create a live performance unbound by location. Audiences will use mobile phones, extended reality headsets and live streams to experience live performance like never before.
Factory 42’s consortium will create 2 multi-sensory, interactive worlds in London’s Natural History Museum and Science Museum. At the Science Museum, visitors will take part in a mixed-reality detective experience featuring high-resolution 3D scans of robots. The Natural History Museum will bring dinosaurs to life through the story of a palaeontologist’s discoveries. Shorter versions of both experiences will tour shopping centres across the UK.
Esports – video games played competitively in front of a live audience – has the fastest growing audience for live sports globally. This project will create new esports platform called WEAVR that uses gameplay data to transform how remote audiences experience first esports, and further down the line physical sports.
WEAVR will be developed by a consortium that includes ESL, the largest esports content producer in the world, as well as academics and innovators across immersive technologies, data-driven content production and broadcast.
Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries Margot James said:
The UK is home to some of the world’s leading digital and creative talent. Through our modern Industrial Strategy and multi-million-pound creative industries sector deal, we are bringing them together to give audiences a truly unique experience.
The growth of immersive technology has the power to transform the way in which we watch theatre, play games or go to the cinema, and these new projects will demonstrate how we can take people closer than ever before to the live action.
Science and Innovation Minister Chris Skidmore said:
We are now in a new era of how we consume entertainment, and these projects announced today could see us walking with dinosaurs and experiencing being in the stands of major football matches from our own living rooms.
We have an impressive reputation of producing outstanding sport, cultural institutions and visual entertainment. That is why, through our modern industrial Strategy, we are building on these strengths to make the areas even more accessible and enjoyable to people, whilst supporting high-skilled jobs across the UK.
UK Research and Innovation Chief Executive, Professor Sir Mark Walport, said:
New technologies being pioneered in the UK, such as virtual and augmented reality, are fundamentally changing the way we participate in cultural experiences, from watching dramatic performances and visiting museums to playing video games.
Through investments such as the projects announced today, the government and UK Research and Innovation will support the creative industries to innovate in exciting ways that will deliver new experiences for audiences of the future with accompanying economic benefits.
Professor Andrew Chitty, UKRI’s Challenge Director for Audience of the Future said:
The market for immersive content is a global opportunity. The presence of international partners in these ground-breaking projects is a massive vote of confidence not only in UK research and innovation but in our creative companies who will ensure that the UK becomes a world-leading destination for immersive content production bringing the new jobs and investment that is central to the Industrial Strategy and the Creative Industries Sector Deal.
The Charity Commission, the independent regulator of charities in England and Wales, has opened a statutory inquiry into CAWRM Ltd (1178193). The inquiry was opened on 28 November 2018.
The charity’s object is to relieve poverty and financial hardship in particular, but not exclusively, amongst refugees in the Middle East.
The inquiry was opened after the Commission carried out a compliance visit to CAWRM Ltd which highlighted serious regulatory concerns including:
The Commission has issued an order under section 76(3)(f) of the Charities Act restricting certain transactions that the trustees can enter into without the Commission’s prior consent.
In order to address these serious regulatory concerns, the investigation will consider:
It is the Commission’s policy, after it has concluded an inquiry, to publish a report detailing what issues the inquiry looked at, what actions were undertaken as part of the inquiry and what the outcomes were. Reports of previous inquiries by the Commission are available on GOV.UK.
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Published 10 January 2019