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 […]
Sarabjit Singh QC, one of the new silks appointed in 2018, was theson of immigrants from a farming community in Punjab, India. Hesays it was a familiar story: his parents both worked in factorieswhen they first arrived in Britain in the 1970s, Sarabjit’s father laterworking as a cab driver, then both parents putting in long hours inrunning a corner shop. By the age of just 14, Sarabjit had already decided that he wanted tobecome a barrister – because he “loved a good argument” and “using language to persuadepeople”. He regularly challenged whatever adults – including teachers – told him if […]