The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple,commonly known simply as Middle Temple,is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers,the others being the Inner Temple,Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn. It is located in the wider Temple area of London,near the Royal Courts of Justice,and within the City of London. As a liberty,it functions largely as an independent local government authority.
The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple,commonly known as the Inner Temple,is one of the four Inns of Court and is a professional association for barristers and judges. To be called to the Bar and practise as a barrister in England and Wales,a person must belong to one of these Inns. It is located in the wider Temple area,near the Royal Courts of Justice,and within the City of London. As a liberty,it functions largely as an independent local government authority.
Post-nominal letters,also called post-nominal initials,post-nominal titles,designatory letters or simply post-nominals,are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position,an academic degree,accreditation,an office,a military decoration,or honour,or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters,but in some contexts it may be customary to limit the number of sets to one or just a few. The order in which post-nominals are listed after a name is based on rules of precedence and what is appropriate for a given situation. Post-nominal letters are one of the main types of name suffix. In contrast,pre-nominal letters precede the name rather than following it,such as addressing a physician or professor as "Dr. Smith".
The Vinerian Scholarship is a scholarship given to the University of Oxford student who "gives the best performance in the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law". Currently,£2,500 is given to the winner of the scholarship,with an additional £950 awarded at the examiners' discretion to a proxime accessit (runner-up).
Sir Christopher Dudley Roger Rose is a former judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
Eleanor Veronica Elizabeth Sharpston,KC is an English barrister who served as an Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from 2006 to 2020.
Michael Jacob Beloff,KC is an English barrister and arbitrator. A member of Blackstone Chambers,he practises in a number of areas including human rights,administrative law and sports law.
Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward is a Scottish lawyer and academic,and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Sir David is an Honorary Fellow of University College,Oxford;Honorary Professor of the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is also an Honorary Sheriff of the Sheriffdom of Tayside,Central and Fife at Perth,Scotland.
Simon Denis Brown,Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood,was a British barrister and judge. He was a Law Lord,then a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2012.
Colin Hargreaves Pearson,Baron Pearson,was a Canadian-born English barrister and judge. Rising to sit as a judge in the House of Lords,he is best remembered for his unspectacular but efficient and courteous chairmanship of industrial inquiries and royal commissions. His 1978 report into civil liability and compensation for personal injury made proposals for state pensions for accident victims that were largely rejected by government at the time.
Neil Trevor Kaplan,CBE,SBS,KC,JP is an international arbitrator,licensed to practise law in Hong Kong,Australia and New York. He is currently an international arbitrator at Arbitration Chambers Hong Kong,and has been described as the "Father of Hong Kong Arbitration". Chambers and Partners ranks Kaplan as one of the Most In Demand Arbitrators in Global Market.
Geoffrey Ma Tao-li is a retired Hong Kong judge who served as the 2nd Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal—the court of last resort in Hong Kong. Between 2001 and 2010,he held various positions in the High Court of Hong Kong,including Chief Judge,Justice of Appeal,and Judge of the Court of First Instance. Before his judicial career,he was a barrister-at-law in private practice at Temple Chambers,and was qualified to practice in England and Wales,Hong Kong,Australia and Singapore.
John Anthony Dyson,Lord Dyson,is a former British judge and barrister. He was Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice,the second most senior judge in England and Wales,from 2012 to 2016,and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2012. He was the first justice to be appointed who was not a peer.
Tim Owen KC,is an English barrister at Matrix Chambers. His practice spans the fields of fraud/regulatory,criminal,public,human rights,media and information,extradition/MLA,sports,asset recovery,police and civil law.
Edward Hamilton Fitzgerald is a British barrister who specialises in criminal law,public law,and international human rights law. His work against the death penalty has led him to represent criminals such as:Myra Hindley,Mary Bell,Maxine Carr,various IRA prisoners,and Abu Hamza. Fitzgerald is currently the joint head of Doughty Street Chambers.
David Lloyd Jones,Lord Lloyd-Jones,PC,FLSW is a British judge and legal scholar. He has served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom since 2017,and has also served as a member of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales and as a chairman of the Law Commission prior to joining the Supreme Court.
Professor Nicola Margaret Padfield KC (hon) is a British barrister and academic. She is a former Master of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge. and was succeeded to the position in October 2019 by Sally Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Huyton. She is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law,University of Cambridge. In addition to her academic work,she was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2002 to 2014,and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
Paul Antony Darling is an English commercial law barrister,King's Counsel and current chair of the Horserace Betting Levy Board.
Sir Derek Anthony Sweeting is a British High Court judge.
Sir Nicholas Lavender,styled The Honourable Mr Justice Lavender,is a Justice of the High Court of England and Wales.
