Mark Harper QC was one of 107 advocates appointed silk earlier this year at the ceremony in Westminster Hall. Mark said he was “still on cloud nine” at being appointed Queen’s Counsel. I met Mark in his Manchester chambers, which is where he has made his career since joining as pupil some 20 years ago. Mark had chosen to come to the Bar after completing a mini pupillage in a Criminal set, but obtaining a pupillage at Kings Chambers led to him specialising in Chancery and Commercial work. Mark had decided to apply for silk when colleagues and judges started […]
Jayne Adams QC was one of the 107 applicants appointed to silk in the 2015/2016 QC Competition. Jayne specialises in personal injury, clinical negligence, and fraudulent claims litigation but has focused increasingly on industrial disease work in recent years and this now accounts for some 70% of her case load. Whilst always working in the personal injury field, earlier in her career Jayne had also specialised in work on many abuse-in-care cases. However she had reached a point where she felt that she had done enough such work which “could take its toll”. So having worked on what was to […]