Gray’s Inn Scholars 2021
We are delighted to announce the following students awarded GDL Scholars scholarships in 2021. Isabelle Agerbak The Ann Ebsworth Scholarship Karen Viktoria Akera-Stueland a Nina Lowry Scholarship Rebecca Argall The Graeme Hamilton Scholarship Catherine Arnold an Enoch Dumbutshena Scholarship Divya Behl David Karmel Scholarship Sean Binder The Edmund James Lawson Scholarship Robyn Bower-Morris a Josephine Barnes Scholarship … Continued
Mrs Justice Keegan to become first ever Lady Chief Justice in Northern Ireland
The Inn is delighted to note the following recent Lady Chief Justice Appointment of an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn: The Honourable Mrs Justice Keegan will become the first Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. She will become the first Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland at the start of September 2021 at a ceremony in the … Continued
Judicial Appointments
The Inn is delighted to note the following recent Judicial Appointments: Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber Lise Buckingham has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber, assigned to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber with effect from 9 August 2021. … Continued
Gray’s Inn Moot Competition Final
Congratulations to the Gray’s Inn Moot Competition 2021 winner Natalie Nguyen! Alice Defriend won first runner up. Natalie and Alice will receive the Nicholls Memorial Prize for Mooting, generously given annually by 3 Raymond Buildings in honour of Clive Nicholls QC, a Bencher of the Inn. The runners-up Alice Horn and Luke Austin will receive the Norman Tapp Memorial … Continued
Judicial Appointments
The Inn is delighted to note the following recent Judicial Appointments: Judge of the First-tier Tribunal Safia Iman has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned her to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber to exercise the Special Educational Needs and Disability, Care Standards and Primary Health Lists jurisdictions within … Continued
Team reaches octofinal of the Jessup Moot global rounds
Further to the team’s victory in the UK & Ireland National Championships, Gray’s Inn reached the octofinal (final 16) of the Jessup Moot global rounds. This involved 13 moots against teams from around the world in the preliminary rounds, advanced rounds and elimination rounds. The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot is the world’s largest … Continued
Gray’s Vis Moot team reaches final 32
The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot is the largest mooting competition of its kind in the world, usually held in Vienna. In late March, seven student members of the Inn joined 386 other teams to participate in the 28th annual Vis Moot. After months of preparation, two memorials, and five days of moots, … Continued
Judicial Appointments
Bar Course Scholars 2021
We are delighted to announce the following students awarded Bar Course scholarships in 2021: Maya Achan a Bedingfield Scholarship Jake Acock a Headridge Scholarship Laura-Jane Addo-Donga a Cynthia Terry Scholarship Saif Akram a James Crouch Scholarship Badar Alam a Patrick Back Scholarship Hanin Alzubi a Roger Cox Scholarship Harrie Austin-Jones a Shakespeare Memorial Scholarship Tiyash Banerjee … Continued
James Hunt Prize winner 2021
Congratulations to Jessica Hocking, winner of the 2021 James Hunt Prize! The James Hunt Prize is awarded to the best advocacy performance on the day of the Pupil Trial Exercise. See the Other Awards and Prizes page in the Scholarships section for further information regarding the James Hunt Prize. The Trial Exercise is the final stage of the … Continued