At 39, John is one of the youngest new Queen’s Counsel, appointed earlier this year at the silk ceremony in Westminster Hall in London. John has a diverse practice, working in public, commercial and regulatory law in the UK, and also across Latin America and in the Caribbean. John worked in Panama and is called to the Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and he is a fluent Spanish speaker. John appears before a wide range of tribunals, from the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, through the Court of Protection (C o P) to the full range […]
Bridget Dolan QC, who is one of the 25 women appointed to QC in 2015/16, was a forensic psychologist prior to her call to the Bar at the age of 34 (she studied eating disorders for her PhD). The move to the legal profession enabled Bridget to achieve a long-held ambition to combine the two careers, her interest in mental health law dating back to her undergraduate studies at Bradford University, where she achieved a first class degree in Psychology. Bridget describes her expert specialist practice at the interface of law and mental health as being “anything concerning madness, injury […]