Masters of the Bench

Full Title: Mr Alistair Webster KC

Category: Ordinary Bencher

Bench Call Date: 22-11-2004

Call Date: 29-07-1976

Bio:

Education: Hulme Grammar School, Oldham 1960-71; Brasenose College, Oxford (President of the JCR); BA Hons (Jurisprudence)

Admission: 28 October 1974; Call 29 July 1976; Barrister on the Northern Circuit 1976 – benefitting from breathtaking nepotism by undergoing a pupillage in the chambers of which his father (MT 1948 later HH Judge Ian Webster) had been head; Recorder 1991-, QC 1995

Head of Chambers, Lincoln House, Manchester and member or 33 Chancery Lane splitting his time between Manchester and London

Publications: Delay and Article 6(1), Criminal Law Review Oct 2001

Recreations: Ski-ing; Sailing; Tennis; Cricket Lifelong supporter of Lancashire CC) ; Football (Lifelong supporter of Burnley FC); Music; Theatre; Art;  and worse is the lead singer in a rock band – The Last Gasp

Clubs: Bar Yacht Club; Rochdale Racquets