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Joanna Toch

Joanna Patricia Toch (born 13 October 1961) (LLB Hons) is a British Olympian, a practising Barrister and a Legal 500 expert in family law.


190th Fighter Squadron

On March 16, 2007, the inquest coroner, Andrew Walker, returned a narrative verdict, stating that the killing of L/CoH Hull was "unlawful".

A Voyage Round My Father

It then became a television play with Ian Richardson playing Mortimer, Tim Good as the young Mortimer while Mark Dignam played his blind barrister father.

Alastair Forbes

Forbes’ first overseas posting was to Dominica in the British West Indies in 1936 as a magistrate and government officer, where much of his time was spent compiling an index of the island's laws (his assistant for many years was the barrister (later Dame) Eugenia Charles, who subsequently co-founded the centrist Dominica Freedom Party and in 1980 became the Caribbean's first female prime minister).

Baron Leigh

The Honourable Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, second son of the first Baron, was a cricketer and barrister.

Bill Shipsey

By profession Shipsey is a Barrister and has appeared for Amnesty International before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Boggabri

The churchman Roland St John MBE and his barrister brother Edward St John QC MP were born at Boggabri when their father was Anglican rector there.

Bootle by-elections, 1990

The Conservatives, who had consistently taken second place in the seat, but were struggling in the national polls, nominated James Clappison, a barrister from Yorkshire.

British and Irish Legal Information Institute

Bailii was set up after a long and hard campaign by barrister Laurie West-Knights QC, Lord Saville and Lord Justice Brooke, who were concerned about the lack of availability of court judgments to ordinary court users and were inspired by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) LII.

Charles Henry Chomley

Sir William à Beckett (1806–1869) worked as a solicitor, barrister, judge, and eventually Chief Justice.

Charles Rowan

Rowan was to provide the military discipline and organisation that it was felt the new police force needed and the junior Commissioner, barrister Richard Mayne, was to provide the legal expertise.

Chase Price

By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, he was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780), Barrister from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of Captain Thomas Foley, and had female issue.

Christine Stephen-Daly

She also appeared in ITV soap opera, Emmerdale in 2012, as a barrister Fisher when Chas Dingle (Lucy Pargeter) and Cameron Murray (Dominic Power) go to court and are questioned about the murder of Carl King (Tom Lister).

Daniel Disney

Daniel Disney (died ca. 1722) of Swinderby, was a Non-Coformist landowner in Lincoln who was the father of John Disney (rector), great-grandfather of John Disney (Unitarian) and great-great-grandfather of John Disney the barrister.

Devilling

A barrister who has not completed his devilling may still be recognised as fully qualified by the bar associations of other EEA member states, and practise in those member states in accordance with the relevant European Union (EU) directives.

Dwarkanath Tagore

Therefore, to participate in the Zamindari left by his adopted father Ramlochan Thakur as the forthcoming Zaminder, Dwarkanath left school in 1810 at the age of 16 and apprenticed himself under a renowned barrister at Calcutta Robert Cutlar Fergusson and shuttled between Calcutta and his estates at Behrampore and Cuttack.

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee

Edmund Robertson, 1st Baron Lochee PC, QC, LLD, DL (28 October 1845 - 13 September 1911), was a Scottish barrister, academic and Liberal politician.

Edward Foote

Edward Foote was born in 1767 in Bishopsbourne, the son of Francis Hender Foote, a barrister turned priest, and his wife Catherine neé Mann.

Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough

He qualified as a barrister in 1879 and was secretary to Lord Robert Grosvenor (a younger son of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster) at HM Treasury from 1880–84 and to Arthur Peel, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1884-95.

Frank Fahy

Fahy qualified as a barrister in 1927 at King's Inns, Dublin and also taught at the Christian Brothers school in Tralee.

George Schuster

Sir George Ernest Schuster (1881–1982), British barrister, financier, colonial administrator and Liberal politician

George She

Some of his most remarkable jobs included barrister-at-law, magistrate, headmaster of Diocesan Boys' School (1955–1961), and honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral.

George Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne

George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne (14 September 1894 – 27 September 1960), known as George Garro-Jones until 1947, was a British Liberal, then Labour Party politician, barrister, businessman and editor of the The Daily Dispatch.

Guy Garrod

He was born the third eldest son of Herbert Baring Garrod, barrister-at-law and educated at Bradfield College and University College, Oxford.

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Iveagh House

It was later the home of barrister and Master of the Rolls John Philpot Curran.

John Ball

John Thomas Ball (1815–1898), Irish barrister and politician, Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin University 1868–1875

John Walter Hulme

He served his pupillage with the noted barrister and author Joseph Chitty.

Jonathan Marks

Jonathan Marks, Baron Marks of Henley-on-Thames (born 1952), British barrister and Liberal Democrat peer

Kensington South by-election, 1968

The Liberal candidate Thomas Kellock, a QC who had fought the seat at the previous general election, came in a distant second, with Labour candidate Clive Bradley, a barrister and journalist, forced into third place and losing his deposit.

Lord Anderson

Andrew Anderson, Lord Anderson (1862–1936), a Scottish barrister, judge and Liberal Party politician

Lord Pearson

Colin Pearson, Baron Pearson (1899–1980), Canadian-born British barrister and judge

Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes

Born in Marylebone, London and raised in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, Mrs Belloc Lowndes was the only daughter of French barrister Louis Belloc and English feminist Bessie Parkes.

Marquess of Linlithgow

James Hope-Scott, a prominent barrister, who was the father of James Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour (see the Baron Rankeillour for more information on this branch of the family).

Michael John

He worked as a barrister and solicitor and as a partner in a law firm in Bendigo.

Mishcon de Reya

A partner in the firm, barrister Charlotte Harris, has represented former UK Energy Minister Chris Huhne, who was alleged to have asked his (then) wife Vicky Pryce to take on his penalty points to avoid a driving ban for speeding.

Mohammed Bello Adoke

Barrister Mohammed Bello Adoke, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (born 1 September 1963) was appointed Nigerian Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.

Nicholas Hasluck

After completing his studies he worked briefly in Fleet Street in London as an editorial assistant before returning to Australia in 1967 to work as a barrister sometimes in partnership with Robert Holmes à Court.

Ó hUiginn

Thomas Francis O'Higgins (1916–2003), Irish politician, barrister, a judge

Queen Elizabeth High School, Carmarthen

Sir David Williams - barrister and past vice-chancellor of University of Cambridge

Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby

He then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, hoping for a career as a barrister following graduation, although his hopes never realised themselves.

Richard Webster

Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone (1842–1915), British barrister, politician and Judge

Ron Hoenig

Ron Hoenig (born 21 April 1953) is an Australian barrister who served as Mayor of the City of Botany Bay in New South Wales from 1981 to 2012, a record 31 years, before standing down and winning the 25 August Heffron by-election in state parliament for the Australian Labor Party.

Saxlund

Alf Eivind Saxlund (1890–1973), Norwegian military officer and barrister

Siddhartha Shankar Ray

She was once referred to as "a noted barrister and former elected official" by the late Thomas J. Manton, a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Sir Christopher Rawlinson

On 27 May 1847 he married Georgina Maria, younger daughter of Alexander Radclyffe Sidebottom, barrister, by whom he had three sons—Christopher (b. 1850), Albemarle Alexander, late major 8th hussars, John Frederick Peel—and one daughter.

Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet

In 1699, a family dispute broke out between these heirs, when Susanna Brereton's daughter Mary, who had married John Levett Esq., a barrister of the Inner Temple, London, petitioned the House of Lords in London on behalf of Edward Ward, 11th Baron Dudley and 3rd Baron Ward, who was an infant when his father died, and whose guardianship had been held by Edward, Earl of Meath, and his wife, who was the aunt of the infant lord.

Walter Yates

Walter Baldwyn Yates, English barrister and member of the London County Council

William Bowring

William S. B. Bowring, born 1949, barrister, human rights activist and professor at Birkbeck, University of London

Yusuf Musa Nagogo

However in a letter to the INEC signed by National Chairman Tony Momoh and National Secretary Buba Galadima the CPC stated that its candidate was a former FCT minister of state, Barrister Solomon Ewuga.


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