Nigel Edwards QC was one of 108 new silks appointed QC in 2019. Sadly, his mother died just a few days before the QC Ceremony, held at Westminster Hall in March 2019. Nigel said that he owed his mother an enormous debt of gratitude for all he had achieved in his life and career at the Bar. She had raised him single-handedly on a Darlington council estate following a divorce when Nigel was just a few months old. She had had to hold down three jobs to pay the bills. She had been immensely proud of her son’s achievements. Nigel […]
Katherine Goddard QC was appointed silk in 2019. She is a specialist criminal law barrister who has acted in cases of the utmost gravity and has particular expertise in sexual offences and ones entailing complex medical evidence. Katherine was instructed in the horrendous ‘Edlington’ case in 2009, representing the youngest ever defendant in England to be convicted of a crime. She is a grade 4 CPS Advocate Panel prosecutor and joint head of Chambers (alongside Gul Nawaz Hussain QC), at Bank House Chambers. Katherine – who described herself as “Sheffield through and through” – grew up in what she said was […]