BPP Law School Preparing Your Trainees and Pupils for Practice
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6792_BPP Black Letter Law 148x210.qxd:6742 17/9/07 10:01 Page 1 BPP Law School preparing your trainees and pupils for practice BPP Law School can help you recruit and develop the LEEDS best trainee solicitors and pupil barristers: LONDON MANCHESTER � BPP students receive the highest quality teaching using a practical approach and rigorous assessment GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN LAW � we provide a wide range of elective choices and numerous part- LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE time study options providing your trainees or pupils with a flexible BAR VOCATIONAL COURSE programme tailored to suit your and their needs FULL-TIME � advertising your vacancies on our careers database and using our PART-TIME optional pre-selection service of potential applicants gives you direct DISTANCE LEARNING access to the best UK law students and saves you valuable time To find out how BPP can offer your firm a competitive advantage contact our business development officers: Leeds: Hilary Yeo on 0113 386 8274 or email [email protected] London: Liz Fletcher on 020 7430 7030 or email [email protected] Manchester: preparing you for practice Caroline Hoyle on 0161 235 7109 or email [email protected] DEBO NWAUZU EDITOR AND PUBLISHER This book is dedicated to eternal optimists and those who do not give up when the going gets tough. A showcase of the achievement of ethnic minorities in the legal profession ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS n the Black Letter Law publication last year, I said that it was “only the beginning of much more to come”. How true that is! Black Letter Law 2007 is Iseveral times bigger, better and more comprehensive, without any external sponsorship this time round. This has been made possible by the contribution of so many other people. Thank you Shelagh because this book would have taken forever without your research. Your enthusiasm, support and sheer commitment to the project was a real boost. To many others who have provided information and other form of assistance that is not readily available anywhere else - I am forever indebted to you. I am grateful to those who responded, provided feedback on their profiles, sent us their photographs and expressed kind words of support and encouragement. To Tamba and Liz, well done. To my siblings and parents, thank you for being there. A specially big thank you to the advertisers, for taking that leap of faith. The biggest thank you is to my children who had to endure my temporary obsession when writing this book, yet continued to support me and showed that they are proud of me. Debo Nwauzu September 2007 BLACK LETTER LAW 2007 FOREWORD elcome to this 2nd Edition of Black Letter Law, a modern day Wchronicle of the achievements of senior black and minority ethnic lawyers in the UK Legal Profession. The importance of a publication such as this should not be underestimated. In an unforgiving profession which places a premium on competition and individual excellence it becomes all the more important that we pause regularly to recognise our collective achievement and progress. Black Letter Law does exactly this by faithfully recording the journey of leading black and minority lawyers in the private and public sector. This new expanded edition contains professional information on black and minority ethnic lawyers in every facet of the profession, from the judiciary to members of parliament. In this it is unique. Directories of BME practitioners in the profession are rare indeed let alone those with the informative depth of Black Letter Law. For their success in launching a second publication which infinitely improves upon the first, BLD are to be warmly congratulated. The fact that they continue to attract the praise and support that they do from sponsors and lawyers alike is a tribute to their hard work and dedication to an important cause. The profession needs publications such as this, and this foreword gives me an opportunity to thank Debo Nwauzu and all those who have worked so hard to ensure its success, and to add my voice to those who wish it well. OBA NSUGBE Q.C., S.A.N. BLACK LETTER LAW 2007 CONTENTS 19 42 57 74 89 116 124 137 140 147 152 156 BLACK LETTER LAW 2007 CONTENTS SECTION 1 9 - 26 LEGAL HISTORY AND LEGAL HISTORY IN THE MAKING SECTION 2 27 - 72 PARTNERS IN THE UK TOP 100 LAW FIRMS SECTION 3 73 - 84 PARTNERS IN US AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRMS IN THE UK SECTION 4 85 - 106 QUEEN’S COUNSELS (QCs) SECTION 5 107 - 122 JUDGES SECTION 6 123 - 130 HEADS OF LAW/DIRECTORS OF LAW IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PUBLIC SECTOR AND THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT SECTOR SECTION 7 131 - 138 PROFESSORS OF LAW/ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS OF LAW AND ACADEMIC HEADS SECTION 8 139 - 142 HEADS OF CHAMBERS SECTION 9 143 - 150 GENERAL COUNSELS SECTION 10 151 - 154 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT, PEERS AND GOVERNMENT MINISTERS SECTION 11 155 - 160 LAST BUT NOT LEAST SUBSCRIPTION FORMS 129 & 161 BLACK LETTER LAW 2007 7 CREDITS £25 2007 Pages: 15, 90, 108 18, 87, 141 126 152 145 23, 87, 153 © Copyright No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any First published in Great Britain in 2007 by form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, Totally Management Ltd photocopying, recording or otherwise, without either 145-157 St John Street the prior written permission of the publisher or a London EC1V 4PY licence permitting restricted copying in the UK by the E: info @onlineBLD.com Copyright Licensing Agency. W: www.onlinBLD.com Cover © Debo Nwauzu 2007 Mrs Justice Dobbs, Sibghat Kadri QC, Shami Chakrabarti, Sadiq Khan MP, Trevor Faure and Baroness Scotland. Designed by Tamba S. Foday The following images were provided by UPPA: Treis Ltd Sir Desmond De Silva, Michel Massih QC, Sibghat Kadri www.treis.co.uk QC, Mrs Justice Dobbs (p15 ), Baroness Scotland (P23 and p153 ), Lord John Taylor, Courtenay Griffiths QC Printed and bounded in Great Britain by (page 90), Frank Panford QC, David Lammy MP, Keith Biddles Ltd Vaz MP, Sadiq Khan MP, Manjit Singh Gill QC, Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Paul Boateng, Nelson Mandela, Anesta Weekes QC, Kim Hollis QC (page 97), Imran Khan, Rudy Narayan and John Roberts QC. BLACK LETTER LAW 2007.