Public sector barristers make shortlists for inaugural Employed Bar Awards

The shortlists for the awards - to be presented at a gala dinner at the Tower of London on 30 June - are as follows:

Employed barrister of the year

• James Hanlon (IKEA)
• Camilla de Silva (Serious Fraud Office)
• Nigel Povoas (United Nations)

Young employed barrister of the year

• Matthew Johnston (Government Legal Department - GLD)
• Michael Fry (DLA Piper)
• Jamie Johnston (Department for Education)

Employed advocate of the year (sponsored by Gray’s Inn)

• Matthew Gowen (Birketts LLP)
• Simon Heptonstall (Crown Prosecution Service - CPS)
• Philip Bennetts QC (CPS)

Outstanding achievement by a public service barrister

• Thomas Reveley (GLD)
• David Browitt (GLD)
• Dominic Alexander (HMRC)

Outstanding achievement by a barrister in a corporate organisation or solicitors’ firm (sponsored by BACFI)

• Guy Micklewright (Blake Morgan LLP)
• Hannah Laming (Peters & Peters)
• Jamie Hunt (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - ACCA)

Outstanding performance by a HM Forces barrister

• Commander Carolyn Kenyon (Royal Navy)
• Air Vice Marshal Lindsay Irvine (RAF)
• Major Christopher Storr (Army Legal Services)

Commenting on the absence of local government barristers, a spokesman for the Bar Council said: “We did contact many, but none entered. It wasn’t a case of low entry numbers either. We had more than 50 nominations which is quite high for so few award categories but the local government barristers kept quiet.”