New Master of the Bench
Congratulations to our newly elected Master of the Bench! Under Standing Order 13.1 a Member of Hall appointed a Circuit Leader shall ‘as soon as maybe after his/her appointment be proposed by the Treasurer in Pension for election as a Master and elected by acclamation’. The election of Michelle Heeley QC as a Master of the … Continued
Artwork of four Lady Justice Members
Gray’s Inn Scholars 2021
We are delighted to announce the following students awarded GDL Scholars scholarships in 2021. Isabelle Agerbak The Ann Ebsworth Scholarship Karen Viktoria Akera-Stueland a Nina Lowry Scholarship Rebecca Argall The Graeme Hamilton Scholarship Catherine Arnold an Enoch Dumbutshena Scholarship Divya Behl David Karmel Scholarship Sean Binder The Edmund James Lawson Scholarship Robyn Bower-Morris a Josephine Barnes Scholarship … Continued
Mrs Justice Keegan to become first ever Lady Chief Justice in Northern Ireland
The Inn is delighted to note the following recent Lady Chief Justice Appointment of an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn: The Honourable Mrs Justice Keegan will become the first Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. She will become the first Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland at the start of September 2021 at a ceremony in the … Continued
Judicial Appointments
The Inn is delighted to note the following recent Judicial Appointments: Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber Lise Buckingham has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber, assigned to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber with effect from 9 August 2021. … Continued
FAQs – City Junior School (CJS)
Please read our FAQs Document (PDF, 26 May 2021, version 3) setting out more details of how and why a decision was made regarding the City Junior School coming to the Estate in 2022. This document is intended to address the most common questions which have arisen since the announcement. It will be added to and updated as … Continued
Gray’s Inn Moot Competition Final
Congratulations to the Gray’s Inn Moot Competition 2021 winner Natalie Nguyen! Alice Defriend won first runner up. Natalie and Alice will receive the Nicholls Memorial Prize for Mooting, generously given annually by 3 Raymond Buildings in honour of Clive Nicholls QC, a Bencher of the Inn. The runners-up Alice Horn and Luke Austin will receive the Norman Tapp Memorial … Continued
Judicial Appointments
The Inn is delighted to note the following recent Judicial Appointments: Judge of the First-tier Tribunal Safia Iman has been appointed as a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned her to the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber to exercise the Special Educational Needs and Disability, Care Standards and Primary Health Lists jurisdictions within … Continued
Team reaches octofinal of the Jessup Moot global rounds
Further to the team’s victory in the UK & Ireland National Championships, Gray’s Inn reached the octofinal (final 16) of the Jessup Moot global rounds. This involved 13 moots against teams from around the world in the preliminary rounds, advanced rounds and elimination rounds. The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot is the world’s largest … Continued
Gray’s Vis Moot team reaches final 32
The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot is the largest mooting competition of its kind in the world, usually held in Vienna. In late March, seven student members of the Inn joined 386 other teams to participate in the 28th annual Vis Moot. After months of preparation, two memorials, and five days of moots, … Continued