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 […]
Nina Grahame QC joined Garden Court North Chambers – where she was now deputy head – in 2008 following fifteen years as a busy criminal barrister in London. Nina was regularly instructed in the most serious cases including allegations of murder, manslaughter, drug- trafficking and money laundering and these cases often involved complex evidence of the use of cutting-edge technology and sophisticated anti-surveillance techniques by organised crime gangs. She also acted, amongst much else, in international child abduction cases. She was one of thirty women successful in the 2018 silk competition. Nina came from a working class background. Her parents […]