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 […]
Hannah Markham QC was one of 107 applicants (25 of whom were women) who were appointed Queen’s Counsel at the silk ceremony in Westminster Hall on 22nd February. Hannah’s practice encompasses all areas of children’s work, including international, Court of Protection and family related judicial reviews. She is also a qualified family mediator and trains social workers in court skills and often presents lectures to the judiciary and local lawyers in ongoing training and skill development. We began by talking about the interview for QC. Hannah said that she had found the interview a rather odd experience, perhaps because she […]