Mohinderpal Sethi KC attended Langdon Comprehensive School in East Ham in the London Borough of Newham. He read Law at Wadham College, Oxford where he was a College Scholar. He was called to the Bar in 1996 and was The Queen Mother’s Scholar (the premier Inn scholarship), The Malcolm Wright Prizewinner and Harmsworth Major Entrance Exhibitioner. He took silk in 2019 and practises from Littleton Chambers.

He specialises in commercial, employment, partnership and sport litigation and arbitration appearing at all levels in domestic, international and offshore courts and tribunals. In 2015 he was appointed by the Attorney-General directly to the A-Panel of Counsel to the Crown. He was the Chair of the Employment Law Bar Association from 2021 to 2023. In 2022 he was named the Civil Lawyer of the Year (ALA) and Barrister of the Year Finalist (The Lawyer). In 2023 he won Employment Silk of the Year (Legal 500) and Senior Counsel of the Year (IEL). He is co-author of Employment Tribunal Remedies (OUP) and Termination of Employment (Bloomsbury). He enjoys tennis, hiking and opera. He has a particular interest in advancing equality, diversity and social mobility at the Bar. 

Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Hertford College, Oxford. Her work focuses on the reception of Shakespeare in print, production, and criticism. She loves talking about this given half a chance - in schools, literary societies, rehearsal rooms, festivals, and libraries, and on radio. Her most recent books are This is Shakespeare (2019) and Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers (2022). Her current work is on an edition of Shakespeare's Middle Temple play, Twelfth Night, for the Arden Shakespeare.

Brian Cregan studied Law at University College Dublin (1979 – 1982), and then Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St. John’s College, Oxford (1983 – 1985).  He worked in the City of London for three years (1986 – 1988).  He then attended the Honourable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin and he was called to the Bar in 1990.  He commenced practice in 1992 and practiced mainly in the area of commercial law and competition law.  He was admitted to the Inner Bar in 2004 and became a Judge of the Irish High Court in 2014.  For a number of years he was the Sole Member of a Commission of Investigation into the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.  He is a former Chairman of the Education Committee of King’s Inns.  He is a Bencher of the King’s Inns.

Karen read history and international relations at the University of Aberdeen before studying the GDL at the College of Law in York. Before becoming a bencher, Karen was a member of the Middle Temple Young Barrister’s Association (“MTYBA”) for several years including two as its president. She was also an elected member of the Hall Committee for two terms, the second of which (2020-2022) she served as Chair of the committee. Karen has assisted the Inn as an advocacy tutor and sits on scholarship panels and the Inn’s hardship award panel. Karen practices in public law, predominantly in housing and immigration, at the 36 Group where she is joint head of the public and human rights group.

Rt Hon Alex Chalk KC MP was appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on 21 April 2023. He was Minister of State in the Ministry of Defence from October 2022 to April 2023 and was formerly HM Solicitor General for England and Wales and the Prisons and Probation Minister.  

Prior to being elected in 2015 as MP for Cheltenham, Alex was a barrister and prosecuted and defended in cases concerning terrorism, international fraud, and homicide. 

As Justice Minister, Alex led the Domestic Abuse Bill through the Commons. For the first time in history, the Bill includes a wide-ranging legal definition of domestic abuse which incorporates a range of behaviour beyond physical violence. 

During his time as Prisons Minister, Alex announced a new scheme to provide temporary, basic accommodation to prison leavers for twelve weeks, as well as overhauling the unpaid work that offenders are ordered to do as part of community service. 

As HM Solicitor General, Alex oversaw the work of the Law Officers’ Departments and took a particular interest in the issue of disclosure.  

As Minister for Defence Procurement, Alex authorised the transfer of Challenger II tanks to Ukraine. 

He lives in Cheltenham with his wife and three young children. 

Professor Cleveland has a long and distinguished career in the service of international law, including as a professor of international law, as the Counselor on International Law in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser (2009-2011), as Vice Chair and member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2015-2018), and as the independent U.S. member on the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2010-19). In November 2023, she was elected by the UN to serve as a judge on the International Court of Justice. 

Cleveland holds the Louis Henkin Chair in Human and Constitutional Rights at Columbia University Law School in New York, where she has been on the faculty since 2007. She has also taught at Oxford University, Sciences-Po University and the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Leiden University, the European University Institute, the Geneva Graduate Institute, and the University of Tokyo, among others. Professor Cleveland has published widely on international law subjects and has been involved in international law litigation in the United States and abroad. She has served as a Council Member of the International Bar Association’s

Human Rights Institute, and as a Commissioner for the International Commission of Jurists. Professor Cleveland served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University (1987), her law degree from Yale Law School (1992), and a Masters in Commonwealth History from Oxford University (1989), where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Alastair was educated at Fairfield Grammar School in Bristol and at the Universities of Aberdeen (LLB) and London (University College – LLM). He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in May 1972, whilst teaching public international and European law at UCL and at the Civil Service College, preparing UK civil servants for the UK’s accession to the EC in 1973.

Between 1973 and 1989, Alastair was an official of the European Commission, negotiating bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, serving for 5 years as a diplomat in the Commission Delegation in Tokyo, legal advisor in the Cabinet of Lord Cockfield, Commission Vice President for the Internal Market and head of the insurance division, under Vice President Sir Leon Brittan.

Since leaving the Commission, Alastair was a founding partner of the EU law firm Forrester, Norall and Sutton and, following its merger with White and Case, a partner in this global law firm. Following his retirement in 2010, Alastair has been a member of Brick Court Chambers and an avocat at the Belgian Bar.

Alastair has taught European and international law around the world, most recently for judges in EU Member States.

Alastair has been married to Eileen since 1968, has four children and five grandchildren and is an enthusiastic traveller, sportsman and musician.

Charlotte Worsley was born and educated in Leeds. She studied Social Anthropology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge then undertook the GDL. She was called by Middle Temple in 2002, initially practicing in London then returned North and joined Park Square Barristers in Leeds (formerly 6 Park Square) in 2003. She specialises in Children Family Law with a particular interest in child protection cases involving international, cultural and religious issues. She took silk in 2022 and was elected a Bencher in 2023. She has been Secretary for the North Eastern Circuit Middle Temple Society since its inception, serves on the Middle Temple Emergency Support Scheme Committee and is an accredited advocacy trainer. She lives in Yorkshire with her husband, two children and two dogs. 

The Chair of the Management Board of Doughty Street Chambers, Tim was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in November 1993. Prior to that, he had completed his Ph.D. and had worked as a University Lecturer in Law for two years. He took silk in 2010. He practices in Crime, Inquests and Inquiries.

His recent cases of note include Hamilton and others (the quashing of the convictions of 39 postmasters wrongly convicted on evidence generated by the unreliable Horizon software programme) and The King (on the application of Police Officer B50) v Her Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for the East Riding of Yorkshire and Kingston upon Hull [2023] EWHC 81 (Admin) (which upheld a jury’s unlawful killing conclusion). For the past year he has appeared at the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry chaired by Sir Wyn Williams, representing postmasters who have had their convictions overturned.

For over 15 years he has been the author of the Sexual Offences (with HHJ Rook QC), Terrorism and Appeals sections of Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. He is a Consultant Editor of Halsbury’s Laws.

Justice Gleeson holds Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws degrees from the University of Sydney. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1989 and, after practising as a commercial solicitor, was called to the New South Wales Bar in 1991. She left the Bar in 2000, serving as General Counsel of the Australian Broadcasting Authority from 2001 to 2003, and as a Senior Executive Lawyer with the Australian Government Solicitor from 2004 to 2006. She returned to the Bar in 2007 and took silk in 2012.

Prior to her appointment to the High Court, Justice Gleeson served as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having been appointed to that Court in April 2014.

Magazine Biography Content: Justice Gleeson was appointed to the High Court of Australia in March 2021, after serving as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia since 2014. Justice Gleeson holds Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. She has practised as a commercial solicitor and public servant, and was a member of the NSW Bar from 1991-2000 and 2007-2014, taking silk in 2012.

Nneka Akudolu KC was called to the Bar in 2002 and took silk in 2022.  

She is a criminal practitioner whose practice encompasses all areas of serious crime, including murder, drug trafficking and serious sexual offences. She has particular experience working with vulnerable defendants and witnesses and those charged with historic allegations of a sexual nature. 

Away from the Crown Court, Nneka has a keen interest in Military Law and has considerable experience representing members of the armed forces and their dependents in Court Martial proceedings both here and overseas.

Nneka is a fierce proponent of promoting diversity at the Bar. She regularly attends schools and colleges to speak to students on the subject in order to encourage those from under-represented groups to consider a Career at the Bar.

Nneka is the Circuit Lead for the pioneering “Judicial Reverse Mentoring” programme, which places junior legal professionals as mentors to senior members of the judiciary.  The programme was spearheaded by Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb in 2022 with great success. Recently, Nneka became an advocacy trainer for the Inn and was called to the Bench in June 2023

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.

Emily Jackson is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she teaches Medical Law. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was previously a Member and then Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, and a Judicial Appointments Commissioner.

Adam was Called to the Bar in 1999 and was appointed King’s Counsel in 2020. After pupillage at 5RB and QEB Hollis Whiteman he returned to 5RB as a tenant where he specialises in media and communications law, in particular defamation, misuse of private information, breach of confidence and harassment online. He has appeared in many cases involving protection of reputation and privacy, freedom of speech and open justice in this, and other common law, jurisdictions. He took silk in March 2020. He is the joint editor of the forthcoming fourth edition of The Law of Privacy and the Media (OUP).

Adam has been actively involved in the Inn throughout his career. This has included serving on scholarship committees, acting as editorial consultant for the Middle Templar and travelling with the Inn to Singapore, Hong Kong, Washington DC and Malibu. He has also lived in the Inn. 

Thomas Grant was Called to the Bar in 1993 and was appointed King’s Counsel in 2013. Thomas practises mainly in the Chancery Division and Commercial Court, as well as in the BVI and Cayman Islands, and has particular experience in heavy multi-party disputes.

Regarded as one of the leading advocates at the commercial chancery Bar Thomas was awarded Chancery Silk of the Year 2021 by Chambers and Partners. He spends a good part of his professional life in the courtroom and has appeared in a very large number of reported decisions (over the last four years alone Thomas has appeared in over 40 reported cases). Thomas also has a substantial international arbitration practice.

He has written three mainstream books - Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories (2015); Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain (2019); and The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid (2022).

Justice Susan Glazebrook is a judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand/Te Kōti Mana Nui o Aotearoa. She is President of the International Association of Women Judges (until May 2023).

Before her elevation to the Bench, Justice Glazebrook was a partner in a large commercial law firm and a member of various boards and government advisory committees. She served as President of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association in 1998.

Since becoming a judge, Justice Glazebrook has been a member of the Advisory Council of Jurists for the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions and chaired Te Kura, the body responsible for judicial education in New Zealand.

Justice Glazebrook is a distinguished alumni of the University of Auckland and a distinguished fellow of Victoria University of Wellington Law School. In 2014 Justice Glazebrook was made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the judiciary.

Wim Trengove SC is a South African advocate best known for his role in the development of South African constitutional jurisprudence and his involvement in high-profile political cases.

He litigated many of South Africa's most important human rights questions, arguing for the abolition of the death penalty; against discrimination on the basis of HIV status; for the protection of sex workers' labour rights; for the restitution of land and mineral rights to groups dispossessed during apartheid; and for the roll-out of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV patients. He represented mineworkers in a class action against mining companies for the widespread contraction of silicosis. The $400 million settlement was the largest in South African history.

Trengove has been active in high-profile political cases, representing former president Nelson Mandela, including in his divorce from Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, leading the prosecution of former president Jacob Zuma, and representing President Cyril Ramaphosa in various matters.

Róbert Spanó is Of Counsel in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. He is the former President of the European Court of Human Rights. He was educated at the University of Iceland, the University of Leuven, and the University of Oxford. He was a tenured Professor of Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Iceland and practiced as a part-time Of Counsel for a law firm in Iceland and in London in the fields of public law and corporate law. He was provisionally appointed Parliamentary Ombudsman in 2013 before being elected a judge on the European Court of Human Rights. He served as President of the ECHR from 18 May 2020 to 31 October 2022. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford for the 2022-2023 academic year and a Professor of Law, University of Iceland.

Alderman Nicholas Lyons was elected as the next Lord Mayor of the City of London on 29 September 2022. He took office as the 694th Lord Mayor on 11 November 2022. He previously served as Sheriff of the City of London in 2021-22.

Nicholas was born in Ireland and was educated in Canterbury, attending the King’s School and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history.

After time as a political research assistant in London and with the Directorate General for External Relations at the EEC Commission in Brussels, he joined Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York in London in 1982 where he worked for 12 years, then at Salomon Brothers from 1994-95 and then moved with a team to Lehman Brothers where he worked from 1995-03. He held a series of global leadership roles at Lehman Brothers, retiring in 2003 to begin a plural career, sitting on the boards of many financial institutions and numerous charities. His City career has spanned over 40 years.

Ruth Kirby was born and educated in Ireland before completing her LLM in Employment Law at the LSE. She has specialised in family law and Court of Protection work for more than 20 years, where she has always had an emphasis on international children work. In 2004, she was Called to the Irish Bar.

Ruth has been involved in the Inn from the start of her career when she was part of the first pupils’ advocacy course.  She has now been a trainer on the modern version of that course for 12 years. Ruth worked as a waitress, a postal courier, a lecturer, and a journalist before starting her second six pupillage when her son was five months old.  She and her siblings are first generation entrants to tertiary education. She is a great believer in the strength that is brought to the Bar by the diversity of which she has been part for the past 20 years at the Bar.  Ruth took Silk in 2021.

Joan Donoghue has been a Judge of the International Court of Justice since 2010 and has served as its President since February 2021. She joined the Court after a career at the U.S. State Department, where she was the senior career attorney from 2007 to 2010. Over about twenty years at the State Department, her work spanned diverse topics in public international law, including the negotiation and interpretation of treaties, the law of the sea, the environment, investment and human rights law. She also served as the Deputy General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1999-2000) and as General Counsel of a financial services company (2003-2005). Judge Donoghue has been a member of investor-State arbitral tribunals and annulment committees. She has taught courses in international law at several law schools and in the training programme of the United Nations.

Lynne was Called to the Bar in 1996 and has been the recipient of the Harmsworth Scholarship and the Robert Garraway Rice Pupillage Prize.  She was Called to the Northern Irish Bar in 2018 and was Chair of the Association of Women Barristers from 2018- 2021. She was made a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2021.

Lynne has spent a number of years in public service including the Crown Prosecution Service, (as a Crown Advocate), Advocacy Assessor and Advocacy Manager.  She was also a Senior Policy Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions and national policy lead on homicide, honour-based violence and FGM.  She drafted the 2009 edition of the Code for Crown Prosecutors and was a member of the Ministry of Justice’s Murder Review Advisory Group (reviewing the law on murder and partial defences to murder), in addition to the Home Office/Foreign and Commonwealth Office advisory group on forced marriage.

Lynne has been a lecturer in Bar Vocational Studies at City, University of London since 2016.  In 2021, she was appointed as a Fee-paid judge of the Employment Tribunals and of the First Tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) (Mental Health).  She is a published author in the fields of criminal law and legal skills.   She is a co-founder of the Oxford University Press National Mooting Competition, and Chair of the Middle Temple historical society.

George practices in public law, competition law (particularly subsidy control/State aid), VAT, medicines regulation and regulatory law. 

After reading PPE at Exeter College, Oxford, George began his legal career as a lawyer at the then Office of Fair Trading in 1992, before joining Monckton Chambers in 1998.  He served for many years on the Attorney General’s panels until he took Silk in 2015.  He has appeared many times in the Court of Justice of the EU and in the higher courts of England and Wales.  He has regularly given evidence on Brexit and subsidy control related matters to Parliamentary Select Committees, and is currently chairing the Bar Council working group on retained EU law, in addition to being a member of the executive of the Society of Labour Lawyers and of the Administrative Law Bar Association.

George has recently contributed to textbooks on the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol and the UK Internal Market Act, and writes on legal and constitutional issues for both professional and more general publication.  He was Called to the Bar of Ireland in 2018.

Rehana was Called to the Bar of England and Wales in July 1983 and was Called to the Bar in Mauritius in September that year. In February 1984 she was appointed as Crown Counsel and appeared before all courts including the Supreme Court. She has acted as legal adviser to various government departments and ministries.

In 1988, Rehana was appointed District Magistrate, then in 2000, President of the Intermediate Court,  in 2007 Master & Registrar, and in January 2008 she was appointed Supreme Court Judge sitting in the Civil, Criminal, Mediation and Appellate Divisions.

Rehana was President of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court from 2015- 2020. In June 2021 she was appointed Senior Puisne Judge, and in November, was appointed Chief Justice and Head of the Judiciary, presiding over the Court of Criminal Appeal and the Court of Civil Appeal. She was then elevated to the rank of Grand Officer of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean by the Republic of Mauritius.

Rehana is Chairperson of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission.

Mrs. Justice Ayesha A. Malik, before her elevation to the Supreme Court, was serving as a Justice of the Lahore High Court since March 2012.

Born in June 1966, her education was completed from schools in Paris, New York and London. She acquired her B. Com from the Government College of Commerce & Economics, Karachi and her LLB from the Pakistan College of Law, Lahore. She went on to acquire her LLM from Harvard Law School where she was named a Landon H. Gammon Fellow for academic excellence.

Justice Malik started her legal career working at Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim & Co and ultimately went on to become a Partner at Rizvi, Isa, Afridi & Angell (‘RIAA’), where she spearheaded the corporate & litigation department at the firm’s Lahore office. While on the bench Justice Malik has authored judgments in constitutional jurisdiction advancing the rule of law as well as protecting the rights of women. In addition to her position on the bench, she has been a member of the National Judicial Automation Committee to ensure effective harnessing of information technology for speedy dispensation of cases. She has been a Board Member of the Punjab Judicial Academy and contributed towards training judges in various aspects including gender sensitivity and gender based violence cases. She was the Chairperson for Judicial Officers Female Supervisory Committee, which dealt with issues relating to female judicial officers. She initiated the first Punjab Women Judges Conference in 2016 and has held similar conferences in 2017 and 2019, which have brought to the forefront the debate on the need to include the gender perspective in the court processes and judgments and also solutions to improve litigation process for female litigants.

Joel Bennathan was educated at Bristol Grammar School and read law at Queen Mary College, London. He was a tenant in Tooks Court, then Doughty Street Chambers and became a QC in 2006. The first lawyer in his family, Joel worked predominantly at the criminal bar for 35 years, mainly defending in trials and mounting appeals to the Court of Appeal, House of Lords then Supreme Court, Privy Council and the European Court of Human Rights. Highlights of his practice included challenging the use of hearsay in Strasbourg, various reassertions of the need for strict obedience to the rules of criminal litigation in the House of Lords and Privy Council, and the ultimately successful defence of Afghans fleeing the Taleban in a hijack case which took him to the Old Bailey, Kabul and the Court of Appeal. He wrote and contributed to books on criminal appeals and was a visiting Professor at London South Bank University. He and his wife have 6 children. Joel lives in North London, with family in London, Israel and the USA. In January 2022 he was appointed to the High Court where he sits in the Queen’s Bench Division.

David Allen read law at Merton College Oxford and at McGill University, Montreal before being Called in 1975.He taught law at several universities for over 20 years, chiefly at the University of Leicester, where he was Head of Department between 1993-6. He wrote a number of books and journal articles, mainly on issues of contract and tort law. He was in practice for 10 years during his time at Leicester. He sat for several years as a fee-paid Immigration Adjudicator, becoming full-time in 1999, and was appointed as a Vice-President of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal in 2000. He has been a judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) since 2010, having had responsibility over a number of years for training, which he has done both in the United Kingdom and abroad. He has been a Deputy High Court Judge since 2016. He has been a legal member of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission since 2001. He has been General Editor of the Personal Injury and Quantum Reports since their inception in 1993. He has sat on Scholarship interview panels for the Inn since 2016,and is a Committee Member of the Middle Temple Historical Society.

A business woman and author, Maggie began advising governments in the 1990s. She has been a member of several UK Government and European Union task groups and represented the UK in Greece and Hong Kong. From 1997-2001 Maggie was Director of the Learning Experience, Millennium Dome and from 2001-2008, a Civil Service Commissioner. In 2017, Maggie was appointed a member of the Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel.

Maggie owns three businesses - The Experience Corps Ltd a global consultancy firm, Semple Ltd a luxury bespoke women’s brand and is co-founder of I-Cubed Group Ltd.

Maggie is a Non-Executive Director of Phoenix Group plc, Jamaica National UK Ltd, PwC Business Restructuring Services, a member of University of Cambridge HR Committee and Chair of the Kerry Nicholls Dance Company. Maggie is cited in International Who’s Who and was awarded an OBE in 2001.

Practicing as a lawyer since 1983 and as specialist lawyer for criminal law since 1998.

External Ombudsperson for Whistleblowers for several companies.

Since 2014, has been Constitutional Court Judge, State of Berlin Advised the EU commission on EU criminal law as member of the EU Commissions Expert Group on EU Criminal Policy from 2008 to 2021.

Vice-President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) from 2018 to 2020. President of the CCBE in 2021.

On the executive committee of the Berlin Bar from 1999 to 2011; President of the Berlin Bar from 2004 to 2009.

Co-editor of New Journal of Criminal Law (NStZ).

On the advisory board of the Journal of Economic Criminal Law and Liability in the company (ZWH).

Co-author of the book "On Judicial Assistance in Criminal Matters" (2020 Nomos, comment-ing the Council Regulation (EU) 2017/1939 on the establishment of the EPPO).

Co-author of the book "Commercial Criminal Law and Criminal Tax Law" (2017 Nomos, commenting on the liability of legal entities).

Has published essays and decision notes in the field of criminal law and law governing the professional conduct of lawyers; lecture activities on these issues.

Mary Rose Gearty was appointed to the Irish High Court in 2019 and is the inaugural Director of Judicial Studies in Ireland.  She has responsibility for child abduction cases under the Hague Convention and also hears Judicial Review, Criminal Law and Personal Injury cases. 

Mary Rose attended The Honorable Society of King’s Inns in Dublin and King's College in London. She was called to the Irish Bar in 1992 and took silk in 2009. She has been a Bencher of The Honorable Society of King’s Inns since 2018.   As an elected member of the Bar Council in Ireland for over ten years, she founded the Advanced Advocacy Course for members of the Irish Bar and was one of the first internationally accredited advocacy trainers in Ireland.  Mary Rose established the mentoring programme for women at the Irish Bar and a counselling helpline for barristers in distress.  She is currently the Chairwoman of GEMME, an international association of judges for the promotion of mediation and she chairs the Judicial Sub-committee of the IRLI, an Irish Rule of Law charity, working in Tanzania and elsewhere on projects to enhance the rule of law.