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Review 2017 THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN’S INN Contents Officers of the Inn 2018 1 Dinner for the Preacher 84-85 Message from the Treasurer 2-3 John Donne’s Bible 86-88 Editor's Note 4 Family Day 89-91 Judicial & Other Appointments 5 Garden Party 92-99 Development Works 6-12 The Bar Representation Committee 100-103 Estates 13-16 Junior Members’ Association (JMA) 104 Education 17-19 Quiz Night 105 Law Tutors’ Forum & Dinner 20-21 Bar Representation Committee Reports 106-112 Visit to the European Court of Justice 22-23 Gourmet Dinner 113-117 July Call Days 24-29 Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Bust 118-119 Call Day 10 October 30-31 Members’ Accommodation 120 Call Day 12 October 32-33 Dates to Note 121 Call Day 23 November 34-35 Committees’ Dinner 122-124 Call Day 29 November 36-37 New Silks 125 The Inns of Court College of Advocacy 38-39 Fine Wine Dinner 126-127 Students and Scholarships 40-41 Benching of Derek Smedley 127 Contributors to Education Dinner 42-44 Circuit Judges’ Dinner 128 Benching of Julie Whitby 45 Dinner for Tim Eicke on his becoming the UK judge to the European Court Debating Shield 46-47 of Human Rights 129 Member Services Department 48-54 The Home Front: Life at the Inn Hall & Common Room Hire 55 in the First World War 130-134 The Landscape Project 56-59 Save the Date 135 Lincolns Inn Shop 60 Remembrance Sunday 136-137 Members’ Common Room 61 Lord Selborne and the Limits of Reform 138-140 Chattels 62-63 The Donations of Charles Purton Cooper 141-143 New Benchers 64-66 Get on With It 144 Benching of The Honourable The Pegasus Club 145 Mr Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah 67 Staff List 146-147 Portrait of Sir Nicolas Bratza 67 Reflections on my Time as President of the Supreme Court 68-71 May Grand Day 72-73 November Grand Day 74-76 90th Birthdays 77 Silence in the Records: The First Women at the Inn 78-80 100 Years of Women in the Law 81 Chapel & the Choir of Lincolns Inn 82-83 Front Cover: Architect’s illustration of New Terrace, Back Cover: Benchers’ Border and new path (credit MICA Architects) Officers of the Inn 2018 Treasurer The Rt Hon Lord Justice Patten was called to the bar by this Inn in 1974. He took silk in 1988 and was elected a bencher in 1997. He was Chairman of the Chancery Bar Association from 1997 to 1999. In 2000 he was appointed to the High Court (Chancery Division) and served as Vice- Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 2005 to 2008. In 2009 he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal. He is a member of the Wine Committee and was a longstanding member of the Gardens Committee, serving as Chairman in the period 2012 - 2017. Master of the Library The Rt Hon Lord Justice McCombe was called to the bar by this Inn in 1975. He took silk in 1989 and was elected a bencher in 1996. Before being elected a bencher he served on the Bar Representation Committee, served two periods on the Bar Council and was Chairman of the Young Barristers’ Committee in 1982 and of the International Committee from 1993-6. He was Standing Counsel to the Director General of Fair Trading from 1982-1989. He served as Attorney- General of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1996 to 2000 and was appointed to the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) in 2001. In 2004 he was appointed Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit and in October 2012 was appointed to the Court of Appeal. He is a member of the Chapel Committee, Planning and Development Group and is chairing a working group looking to enhance collegiality at the Inn. He previously served on the Chattels Committee and the Advisory (benchers) Committee. Keeper of the Black Book and Dean of Chapel The Rt Hon Lord Justice David Richards was called to the bar in 1974 by Inner Temple and joined Lincoln’s Inn, ad eundem in 1977. He was in practice at the Bar from 1975 to 2003. He was Junior Counsel to Department of Trade and Industry (Chancery) from 1989 to 1992 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1992. He was appointed a High Court Judge (Chancery Division) in 2003 and a chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2004. He was the Chancery Supervising Judge for the Northern and North Eastern Circuits and Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 2008 to 2011. He was chairman of the Insolvency Rules Committee from 2005 to 2015 and is co-chair of the Judicial Committee of the International Insolvency Institute. On 16 November 2015 he was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal. He was elected a bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 2000. He is a longstanding member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee and became its Chairman in 2014. He is a Director of the Inn’s Corporate Trust and a Trustee of the Heritage Fund. He is a member of the Investments Committee, Staff Committee and Planning and Development Group, ex officio. He was a member of the Chattels Committee between 2001 and 2005 and has been a member of the Wine Committee since 2002. Master of the Walks Jonathan Crow QC was called to the bar by this Inn in 1981. He was Treasury Counsel (Chancery) from 1994 until 1998, and then First Treasury Counsel (Chancery) from 1998 until 2006, when he took silk. He was appointed as a Deputy High Court judge in 2001, as Attorney General to HRH the Prince of Wales in 2006, as a Court of Appeal judge in Guernsey and in Jersey in 2011, and as a Deputy Deemster in the Isle of Man in 2017. He was elected a bencher in 1998, since when he has served on the Treasurer’s Committee and the University Liaison Executive Committee (2000-2004) and the Estates Committee and Building Executive Committee (2007-2013). He is a member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee and has been on the Committee of the Denning Society since its formation, taking on the Chairmanship in 2016. LINCOLN’S INN ANNUAL REVIEW 2017 1 beginning of 2017 and they will end well after the end of 2017, but it looks as if we will be back there with luck by the Michaelmas term. The works have had their difficulties particularly at the beginning; they have been supervised throughout by a working party, chaired by Sir Kim Lewison, and the Inn owes an enormous debt to him and the other members. The works have inevitably caused significant disruption, with which the Inn’s staff have coped with efficiency and good humour. The library still functions (albeit with a stone spiral staircase access), the Members Common Room has very successfully been relocated to the Old Court Room, and functions which would have taken place in the Great Hall now occur in Old Hall. I have always had a soft spot for Old Hall (despite, or maybe because of, taking my bar exams there almost forty-five years ago), so I did not particularly mind, although I missed the splendid sight of the library being used for dessert on my two Grand Days. Having said that, an unexpected collateral benefit of being excluded from the Great Hall was that, instead of the slightly gloomy Treasurer’s study, I was provided with a delightful flat on the second floor of 19 Old Buildings, with good space, good light and Message From the good views. In terms of other developments, Treasurer 2017 was not a particularly eventful year for Lincoln’s Inn, but there were For the first eight months of 2017, and see as much of the benchers, a few new initiatives which I should I was President of the Supreme the members, the students, and the mention. First, when I became Court, and in September 2017 I sat staff, as I would have hoped. But I Treasurer, I was told by a number of in the Court of Final Appeal in Hong accept that there was force in the people that I had unlimited power view expressed to me in 2013 that Kong, so I fear that I was, for most over the Inn. Acting for once like a it was good for the Inn to have the of my year, a part-time or absentee good lawyer, I checked the current President of the Supreme Court Treasurer. I feel a little guilty about edition of the Inn’s Standing Orders as Treasurer. And I was able to this, but not very: when it was and was not only confused but was immerse myself more fully in the proposed to put me forward for the also unhappy with what I found Inn for the last three months of my 2014 Master of the Walks in 2013, I there – and didn’t find there. The Treasurership. warned the then-Treasurer and the Standing Orders seemed to be Under Treasurer that, if I became The most obvious feature of 2017 so excellent on many procedural issues, Treasurer in 2017, I would not be able far as Lincoln’s Inn was concerned but they appeared to be defective, to be around the Inn very much until was of course the continuing building unclear and out of date in many October, and September is a pretty works, improving the Great Hall, important respects. I concluded dead month for the Inn.