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Chantal-Aimée Doerries has been appointed as Queen's Counsel. The official ceremony will be held on the 28th March 2008. Chantal's elevation is richly deserved and it sees her as the youngest female barrister to take the honour this year.

Simon Lofthouse QC has been appointed Joint Vice-Chairman of the Bar Standards Board, Complaint's Committee.

Chambers are delighted by the news that Robert Akenhead QC has been appointed a Judge of the High Court. Mr. Justice Akenhead will take up his role in the Queens Bench Division and will be sitting in the Technology and Construction Court with effect from 3rd October 2007.

Chambers is pleased to announce that Colin Reese QC is the new editor of Hudson. The publishers (Sweet & Maxwell) hope to have the next edition on the shelves before the end of 2008. Colin is taking a period of sabbatical leave to enable him to undertake this somewhat daunting task.

We are pleased to welcome David Sears QC (call 1984, Silk 2003), formerly of 4 Pump Court, who joined chambers on 3rd September 2007.

Marc Lixenberg, Ronan Hanna and Andrew Fenn have joined Chambers upon the successful completion of their pupillages

We are delighted to be a co-operating entity at the Fall Meeting of the ABA Section of International Law taking place on the 3rd - 6th October 2007 at the Grosvenor House Hotel.

Chantal-Aimée Doerries has been elected Vice-Chairman of the Technology and Construction Bar Association.

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