Newly Elected Honorary Benchers 2023
Pension agreed unanimously at their meeting on 18 October to the election of those named below as Honorary Benchers of The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn: • Professor Simon Armitage CBE, FRSL – The Poet Laureate, Professor of Poetry at Leeds University and formerly Professor of Poetry at Oxford University • Professor Julia Black PBA … Continued
Congratulations Deferred Trinity Call 2023
Congratulations to all our Members who were Called to the Bar on Tuesday 17 October 2023. The names of those called to the bar are also sent for publication in The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent newspapers. Gray’s Inn Library holds copies of The Times and The Telegraph. The following 53 Members of this … Continued
Artwork in the Library: October – December
The Inn is proud to display this new work depicting its senior Royal Bencher, King Charles III, by London-based Ukrainian sculptor Anatoli Cerny. In November 2022 King Charles opened the Ukrainian Welcome Centre in London, a partnership initiative between the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, and the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy in London. Based in … Continued
Gray’s Inn Diary 2024
Judicial Appointments – September 2023
The Inn is delighted to note the Judicial appointments of the following Gray’s Inn Members in September 2023. Paul Hopkins KC The King has appointed Paul Hopkins KC to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Alex Chalk KC MP and the Lord Chief Justice of England and … Continued
COIC Pupillage Match Funded Scheme
COIC welcomes applications for matched funding for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 pupillages. The COIC Pupillage Matched Funded Scheme (PMF) helps provide additional pupillages in Chambers, and other approved training organisations, predominantly engaged in legally aided work. Encouragingly, a growing number of Chambers are applying for COIC matched funded grants. COIC is set to support 33 pupillages … Continued
Judicial Appointments – August 2023
The Inn is delighted to note the Judicial appointment of the following Gray’s Inn Members in August 2023. Jeremy David Cook Jeremy David Cook has been appointed as Senior Master of the King’s Bench Division by the Lord Chief Justice, the Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon. The Lord Chief Justice has assigned him … Continued
Congratulations Trinity Call 2023
Congratulations to all our Members who were Called to the Bar on Tuesday 18 July 2023. The names of those called to the bar are also sent for publication in The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent newspapers. Gray’s Inn Library holds copies of The Times and The Telegraph. The following 106 Members of this … Continued
Appointment of Vice Treasurer for 2024
Master Geraldine Andrews has been elected as Vice Treasurer for 2024. Acting as Vice Treasurer, The Rt Hon Lady Justice Geraldine Andrews DBE will be the deputy for the Treasurer in 2024 (Master Peter Coulson) before rising to the position of Treasurer in 2025. Master Andrews was called by Gray’s Inn in 1981. She … Continued
Birthday Honours names Gray’s Inn Members
The King’s Birthday Honours mark the extraordinary contributions and service of people across the UK. Gray’s Inn is delighted to note that amongst those named on 16 June 2023, two are Honorary Benchers of Gray’s Inn: The Hon William Hartley Hume Shawcross CVO. Awarded Knight Bachelor for public service. Vincent Thomas Keaveny, lately Lord Mayor … Continued