Appointed to silk in early 2024, Bill Baker is employed by the CPS as a Principal Crown Advocate in the Serious Economic Organised Crime and International Directorate (SEOCID) co-located with the National Crime Agency (NCA) in the North of England. In effect he has been standing counsel to the NCA for the last 14 years. At the end of his existing trial commitments, he will return to the self-employed Bar in Manchester. Bill’s maternal grandfather was a miner, and both his parents attended Grammar Schools. His mother was a social worker specialising in severe learning disabilities and his father left […]
Sadiya Choudhury KC, who was appointed to silk in 2024, is the daughter of immigrant parents: Sadiya’s father – who came to this country with just £3 in his pocket at the age of 21 – went on to become the first person of Pakistani heritage to qualify as a chartered accountant in Bradford. When Sadiya was 10 years old, the family moved back to Pakistan, where Sadiya continued her education, first taking the equivalent of GCSEs at a secondary school which no longer exists before attending the highly prestigious Kinnaird College in Lahore, Punjab, the oldest women’s college in […]