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Miss Carey Johnston KC

Full Title: Miss Carey Johnston KC
Category: Ordinary Bencher
Bench Call Date: 30.6.2009
Call Date: 28.7.1977
Bio:

Carey specialises in criminal work, both prosecution and defence.  She was Called in 1977 and took Silk in 2003.  She runs her chambers' pupillage scheme and also superintends equality and diversity issues.  She chairs a Bar Council Committee which liaises with groups representing victims of crime.  Her involvement in education includes tutoring at Warwick University and University College London, facilitation for the Criminal Bar Association, and workshops on the Human Rights Act to lawyers from the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office.  She has also worked behind the scenes for the Bar Theatrical Society.