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 […]
Anya Proops was one of twenty five women appointed silk in the 2015/16 Competition, alongside eighty two male colleagues. Anya specialises in information rights, media, public and employment law and she is described in the Legal Directories as “tenacious”, “a fierce advocate in court’ and “the outstanding junior counsel of choice for both the Information Commissioner and private clients across the full range of issues in information law”. She is also a formidable advocate on behalf of her female colleagues in seeking the development of a QC application process which recognises the particular challenges which many female barristers face in taking […]