The Legal 500 2023: GCN summary

7 October 2022

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Garden Court North is delighted to have been listed as a top ranked set for several areas of law – Administrative and Public Law, Immigration, Inquests and Inquiries and Social Housing. We are also listed as a Tier 2 set for Crime.

We have several excellent juniors who have entered the rankings for the first time this year, joining some of our other outstanding barristers.

Please see below for our individual barrister’s rankings.

Administrative and public law (including civil liberties and human rights)
Tier 1 Set
Rising stars

Christian Weaver Tier 1

Leading Silks

Pete Weatherby KC Tier 1

Leading Juniors

Alex Offer Tier 1

Tom Royston Tier 1

James Stark Tier 1

Vijay Jagadesham Tier 2

Tasaddat Hussain Tier 2

Mikhil Karnik Tier 2

Lucy Mair Tier 2

Joseph Markus Tier 2

Anna Morris Tier 2

Immigration
Tier 1 Set

Rising stars

Elizabeth Mottershaw Tier 1

Leading Juniors

Tasaddat Hussain Tier 1

Vijay Jagadesham Tier 1

Mikhil Karnik Tier 1

Tom Royston Tier 1

Kerry Smith Tier 1

Camille Warren Tier 1

Lucy Mair Tier 2

Rory O’Ryan Tier 2

Natalie Wilkins Tier 2

Sean Ell Tier 2

Inquests and inquiries
Tier 1 Set
Rising stars

Mira Hammad Tier 1

Ciara Bartlam Tier 1

Leading Silks

Pete Weatherby KC Tier 1

Leading Juniors

Kate Stone Tier 1

Anna Morris Tier 1

Camille Warren Tier 3

Social Housing: Tier 1 Set
Rising stars

Elizabeth Mottershaw Tier 1

Leading Juniors

Joseph Markus Tier 1

James Stark Tier 1

Gary Willock Tier 1

Sonia Birdee Tier 2

Crime (General and Fraud)
Tier 2 Set
Leading Silks

Mark George KC Tier 1

Pete Weatherby KC Tier 1

Nina Grahame KC Tier 2

Leading Juniors

Brigid Baillie Tier 1

Clare Ashcroft Tier 1

Rebecca Filletti Tier 2

Court of Protection & community Care
Leading Juniors

Ben McCormack Tier 1

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