- Cherie Blair
Cherie Blair (born 23 September 1954 in Bury, Lancashire, England), known professionally as Cherie Booth QC, is an English barrister. She is married to Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister. - John Smith
John Smith QC (13 September 1938 - 12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994. - Geoffrey Robertson
Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC (born September 30 1946 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship. Geoffrey Robertson is joint head of Doughty Street Chambers. He serves as a "Master of the Bench" at the Middle Temple, a recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London. - Menzies Campbell
Sir Walter Menzies Campbell, CBE, QC (born 22 May 1941), commonly known as Ming Campbell, is a British politician. He is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for North East Fife and was elected leader of the Liberal Democrat party on 2 March 2006. "Menzies" is pronounced "MING-iss", the "z" being a poor rendition of the yogh originally included in the name; hence "Ming". - Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands is a Professor of Law at University College London, where he teaches public international law, the settlement of international disputes, and environmental and natural resources law. - Michael Howard
Michael Howard QC (born 7 July 1941) is a British politician, an MP since the 1983 General Election for the constituency of Folkestone and Hythe. - Roma Mitchell
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell, AC, DBE, CVO, QC, (October 2 1913 - March 5 2000) was an Australian lawyer and judge; she was the first Australian woman Queen’s Counsel, the first woman Chancellor of a university in Australia, and the first woman Governor of an Australian State. Mitchell was born in Adelaide in 1913 and was the second daughter of Harold and Maude Mitchell. A graduate of St. Aloysius Convent College, Adelaide, Roma Mitchell was Australia's first female QC, … - John Mortimer
Sir John Clifford Mortimer CBE QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. Educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, his oeuvre includes over fifty books, plays, and scripts. The play, "A Voyage Round My Father" (1971) is autobiographical, recounting his experiences as a young barrister and his relationship with his blind father. - David Pannick
David Pannick QC (born 7 March 1956) is a leading barrister in the United Kingdom. He practices mainly in the areas of public law and human rights. He has argued more than 75 cases in the House of Lords, more than 25 cases in the European Court of Justice, and more than 30 cases in the European Court of Human Rights. - John A. MacDonald
Sir John Alexander Macdonald, GCB, KCMG, PC, QC, DCL, LL.D (January 11, 1815 - June 6, 1891) was the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald's tenure in office spanned 19 years, making him the second longest serving Prime Minister of Canada. He is the only Canadian Prime Minister to win six majority governments and won praise for having helped forge a nation of sprawling geographic size, with two diverse European colonial origins, … - Martin Lee
Martin Lee QC SC JP (李柱銘) (born June 8, 1938 in Hong Kong with family root in Huizhou, Guangdong) is the founding chairman (1994-2002) of the Democratic Party (DP), a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong. He is a Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (LegCo), elected by direct election from the Geographical Constituency of Hong Kong Island. - David Smith
David Duncan Smith is a Canadian jurist. Smith is Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. He was appointed Chief Justice in April 1998 after serving as a judge of the Family Division since May 1993. A graduate of Acadia University with a Bachelor of Commerce and the University of New Brunswick with an LL.B., Chief Justice Smith was called to the New Brunswick Bar in 1971 and appointed Queen's Counsel in 1985. - Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, QC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. As the first Prime Minister of Australia, Barton has become something of a national icon, and is remembered for his statement (during an 1891 speech in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield) that "For the first time, we have a nation for a continent, and a continent for a nation." Today, … - Julian Burnside
Julian William Kennedy Burnside QC (born June 9, 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide array of high-profile cases. Burnside was born to Kennedy Byron Burnside and Olwen Lloyd Burnside. He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University in 1972, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1973. - Anthony Mason
Sir Anthony Frank Mason AC, KBE, QC (born 1925), Australian judge and Royal Australian Air Force officer, was the ninth Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, sitting on the bench of the High Court from 1972 to 1995. - Michael Mansfield
Michael Mansfield QC (born 12 October 1941) is an English barrister, regarded as one of the top six criminal defence advocates in the UK. He has made his name defending unpopular clients, often in highly politicized cases of proven or suspected miscarriage of justice, including the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six, and Barry George, the accused in the Jill Dando murder. (pdf) He is also representing Mohamed Al-Fayed at the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana, … - Gerard Brennan
Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC KBE, QC (布仁立爵士) (born 22 May, 1928), was an Australian lawyer, judge and 10th Chief Justice of Australia. He is father to Jesuit priest and lawyer Frank Brennan. Born in Rockhampton, he was educated at Downlands College in Queensland and in 1951 he was admitted to the Queensland Bar. Sir Gerard was appointed a QC in Queensland in 1965 and subsequently in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. - Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC (18 October, 1919 – 28 September, 2000), usually known as Pierre Trudeau or Pierre Elliott Trudeau, was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April, 1968 to 4 June, 1979, and from 3 March, 1980 to 30 June, 1984. Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, … - Sian Elias
Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias, GNZM, QC (born March 12 1949) is the Chief Justice of New Zealand, and is therefore the most senior member of the country's judiciary. She is the presiding judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. As Chief Justice, she also acts as Administrator of Government (acting Governor-General) when the position of Governor-General is vacant. She has held this position twice, first from 22 March 2001 until 4 April 2001, … - Robert Menzies
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 15 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. He had a rapid rise to power, but his first term as Prime Minister was a failure. He spent eight years in opposition, during which he founded the Liberal Party. He was re-elected Prime Minister at the 1949 elections, … - Harry Gibbs
Sir Harry Talbot Gibbs, AC, GCMG, KBE, QC (17 February 1917 - 25 June 2005) was Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1981 to 1987 after serving as a member of the High Court between 1970 and 1981. He was known as one of Australia's leading federalist judges although he presided over the High Court when decisions such as Koowarta v Bjelke-Petersen in 1982 and Commonwealth v Tasmania expanded the powers of the Commonwealth at the expense of the states. - Jean Chrétien
Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien, usually known as Jean Chrétien, PC, CC, QC, BA, BCL, LLD (h.c.) (born January 11, 1934), served as the twentieth Prime Minister of Canada from November 4, 1993 to December 12, 2003. He was also the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1990 to 2003. - Murray Gleeson
Anthony Murray Gleeson AC QC (born 30 August, 1938) is the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. - Ken MacDonald
Sir Ken Macdonald QC is Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales. In that office he is "ex officio" head of the Crown Prosecution Service. He was previously a defence barrister. He studied at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1974. He was called to the bar in 1978 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1997. In 2001 he became a recorder (a part time judge) in the Crown Court. He was awarded a knighthood from the Queen in the 2007 New Year's Honours list. - Ninian Stephen
Sir Ninian Martin Stephen, KG, AK, GCMG, GCVO, KBE, QC (born 15 June 1923) is an eminent Australian. He is a former High Court judge and was the 20th Governor-General of Australia. - John Wilson
John Wilson (February 5 1807 - June 3 1869) was an Ontario lawyer, judge and political figure. He shot and killed Robert Lyon in what is believed to have been the last duel fought in Ontario and the last fatal duel in Canada. He was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1807 and settled in Perth, Upper Canada with his family around 1823. He studied law in Perth with James Boulton. The duel was fought on June 13 1833 over comments that Lyon, another law student, … - Judah P. Benjamin
Judah Philip Benjamin (August 6, 1811 - May 6, 1884) was an American politician and lawyer. He was born British, and died a resident in England. He held the following posts: * representative in the Louisiana state legislature *U.S. Senator for Louisiana *three successive Cabinet posts in the government of the Confederate States of America He was also a distinguished barrister and Queen's Counsel in England. - Michael McHugh
Justice Michael Hudson McHugh (b. 1935) QC, AC is a former justice of the High Court of Australia; the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. - Harriet Harman
Harriet Ruth Harman QC MP (born 30 July 1950) is a British solicitor and Labour politician. Since 24 June 2007, she has been the Deputy Leader and Party Chair of the Labour Party. On 28 June 2007 she was appointed Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for Women and Equality. She has significant political family connections- her aunt, the author Elizabeth Longford was the wife of the Labour cabinet minister, … - Lionel Murphy
Lionel Keith Murphy (30 August 1922 - 21 October 1986), Australian politician, was Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam, and a Justice of the High Court of Australia. Murphy was the youngest son of William and Lily Murphy, and grew up in Sydney. He was educated at state schools, including Sydney Boys High School, and the University of Sydney, where he graduated in science and law. He was admitted to the bar in 1947, and became a QC in 1960. - Bob Rae
Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, PC, OC, O.Ont, QC, B.A., LL.B, B.Phi., LL.D (h.c.) (born August 2, 1948) is a Canadian politician. A former member of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he was the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party from February 7 1982 to June 22 1996, and the 21st Premier of Ontario from October 1 1990 to June 26 1995. He is the only NDP member to serve as premier of a province east of Manitoba. - Daryl Williams
Daryl Robert Williams AM QC (born 21 August 1942), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1993 to October 2004, representing the Division of Tangney, Western Australia. He was born in East Fremantle, Western Australia, and was educated at the University of Western Australia and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar in 1965. In 1968, Williams started work as a barrister. - Rosalyn Higgins
Rosalyn Higgins, Lady Higgins, DBE, QC (b. in London, 1937) is the President of the International Court of Justice. Higgins was the first female judge to be appointed to the ICJ, and was elected President in 2006. - John Baker
Sir John (Hamilton) Baker, LLB PhD London MA LLD Cambridge LLD honoris causa Chicago Barrister-at-Law Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Honorary Bencher Inner Temple QC FBA FBS FRHistS, Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1998, English legal historian. Baker was born 10 April 1944 in Sheffield, the son of Kenneth Lee Vincent Baker, and Marjorie Baker (nee Bagshaw). He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, and University College London. - Zelman Cowen
Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC (born 7 October 1919), 19th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Melbourne. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, and served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. He then went as a Rhodes Scholar to New College, Oxford, where he completed the degree of Bachelor of Civil Law and jointly won the Vinerian Scholarship. From 1947 to 1950 he was a fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, … - Vera Baird
Vera Baird QC MP (born February 13, 1951) British politician, author and barrister, Member of Parliament for Redcar, and a Queen's Counsel. She is a member of the Labour Party and is Solicitor General for England and Wales. She was born in 1951 in Oldham, Lancashire, and was educated at the Chadderton Grammar School; Newcastle Polytechnic; the Open University; the University of London; and the University of Teesside. - Kenneth Clarke
Kenneth Harry Clarke, QC, MP, (born 2 July 1940) is a prominent Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is MP for Rushcliffe, near Nottingham. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 until 1997, and a minister throughout all 18 years of Conservative rule from 1979 to 1997. He has contested the leadership of the party three times (in 1997, 2001 and 2005), being defeated each time. - H. B. Higgins
Henry Bournes Higgins (30 June 1851 - 13 January 1929), Australian politician and judge, always known in his lifetime as H. B. Higgins, was a highly influential figure in Australian politics and law. He was born in Ireland, the son of a Methodist minister who came to Australia with his family in 1870. He was educated at Wesley College, Dublin in Ireland and at Melbourne University, where he graduated in law, and practised at the Melbourne bar from 1876, … - Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen, PC, QC, BA, LL.D (June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was the ninth Prime Minister of Canada from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921 and June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and also the first (and to date only) to represent a riding in Manitoba (notwithstanding that he was born and lived most of his life in Ontario). Both of his terms of office were brief, … - Richard Keen
Richard Keen QC is a Scottish lawyer. Mr Keen graduated LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh where he was a Beckman scholar. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1980 and was appointed a QC in 1993. He is treasurer of the Faculty of Advocates.
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