Stuart Alford QC was one of two employed advocates – of the six who had applied – appointed to silk in 2014. Called to the Bar in 1992, Stuart joined the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in July 2012 having previously spent 20 years in private practice at 36 Bedford Row working on national and international crime – with the emphasis on fraud, and mainly representing the Crown Prosecution Service. Stuart is now one of three in-house QCs at the SFO, where he heads a team of 70 case investigators and lawyers investigating the manipulation of LIBOR and also working on […]
When Kim Franklin was appointed Queen’s Counsel at the ceremony at Westminster Hall in February 2016 it was the fulfilment of a childhood ambition. She wanted to be a barrister when she was 11 years old and kept that resolve despite leaving home at 16 and supporting herself through her studies – working as a cocktail waitress, motorcycle courier and legal secretary. She was grant-funded at university and bar school. Nevertheless in the 1980’s, as a state-educated, non-Oxbridge woman, Kim was in a minority when she started practice in a specialist construction chambers. Throughout her career, Kim feels that her […]