Maria Karaiskos, who was appointed King’s Counsel in 2023, both prosecutes and defends in the most serious, sensitive, and complex criminal offences including murders, historic rapes, child abuse, high-profile sexual offences, road traffic fatalities, multi-handed drug conspiracies and international importations. As Church Court Chambers’ first female silk and first ‘home-grown silk’, Maria recalls her first day in pupillage in her earliest set of chambers 3 Temple Gardens: That evening at after-work drinks, Maria was told by a venerable senior colleague that they had “never had a Greek in chambers before.” Even in this day and age, people did not always […]
In early 2023, Rebecca Wade KC took silk, becoming one of just three female criminal silks in Birmingham. Rebecca’s practice centres on serious crime, with a particular emphasis on homicide and serious sexual offences, both regionally and nationally. The cases in which she was instructed invariably involved complicated issues of law and fact and the most vulnerable people in society and frequently attracted significant media interest. The daughter of an English builder and a Brazilian mother, Rebecca’s career was prompted by her father after he saw silks portrayed in dramas. Tragically, Rebecca’s dad died when she was twelve-years old, and […]