The 2010 Sir David Williams Lecture: ‘A View from the Bar’

Mr Beloff QC is a leading Silk in the United Kingdom where, among his many credits, Mr Beloff QC was described in Legal Business in 1994 as “the Bar’s Renaissance Man”, and in Chambers and Partners Directory 1996 as one of the top three stars of the Bar. He was, while from 1996 President of Trinity College, in part-time practice, but returned to full-time practice in 2006. He was named as one of the top ten barristers of the decade by Legal Business in 1999, one of the top ten currently in practice in “The Independent on Sunday” in 2001 and one of six barristers in the Time List of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in Great Britain in 2008.  He was The Times “Lawyer of the Week” in November 1999 and won the Women’s Defence League award in 1991 for his contribution to women’s rights law.

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