Masters of the Bench

Marcia was called in 1987 having taken a law degree at the University of Cambridge. Her family are Armenian and settled in England in the late 1950s. She was the first member of the family to go to university and reluctantly agreed study law as “something useful to fall back on” instead of going to drama school. To everyone’s relief, Marcia never did get to tread the boards. To her great surprise, she actually quite liked the law. In 1989 (after a real struggle to get a tenancy) Marcia started in practice at in what was then the Chambers of Michael Beckman QC, at 19 Old Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn  specialising in corporate and personal insolvency and company law. Marcia has maintained a successful insolvency law practice and now leads the insolvency and restructuring team at Wilberforce Chambers and sits as a Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge. Marcia is the past Chair of the Chancery Bar Association’s Equality and Diversity Committee and led the research which resulted in her 2021 report, “Voices of Women at the Chancery Bar”.  In her other life, she loves (in no particular order): family life, (all) dogs, fashion, (all) food, cooking, live music and Exmoor.