Public sector barristers make shortlists for inaugural Employed Bar Awards

May 15, 2017

A number of public sector barristers have been shortlisted for the inaugural Bar Council Employed Bar Awards but none are from local government.

The shortlists for the awards - to be presented at a gala dinner at the Tower of London on 30 June - are as follows:

Employed barrister of the year

James Hanlon (IKEA)
Camilla de Silva (Serious Fraud Office)
Nigel Povoas (United Nations)

Young employed barrister of the year

Matthew Johnston (Government Legal Department - GLD)
Michael Fry (DLA Piper)
Jamie Johnston (Department for Education)

Employed advocate of the year (sponsored by Gray’s Inn)

Matthew Gowen (Birketts LLP)
Simon Heptonstall (Crown Prosecution Service - CPS)
Philip Bennetts QC (CPS)

Outstanding achievement by a public service barrister

Thomas Reveley (GLD)
David Browitt (GLD)
Dominic Alexander (HMRC)

Outstanding achievement by a barrister in a corporate organisation or solicitors’ firm (sponsored by BACFI)

Guy Micklewright (Blake Morgan LLP)
Hannah Laming (Peters & Peters)
Jamie Hunt (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - ACCA)

Outstanding performance by a HM Forces barrister

Commander Carolyn Kenyon (Royal Navy)
Air Vice Marshal Lindsay Irvine (RAF)
Major Christopher Storr (Army Legal Services)

Commenting on the absence of local government barristers, a spokesman for the Bar Council said: “We did contact many, but none entered. It wasn’t a case of low entry numbers either. We had more than 50 nominations which is quite high for so few award categories but the local government barristers kept quiet.”