Supported by Employed Bar Forum

5.30pm: Doors open

6pm: Talk by Lord Ken Macdonald KC

6.30pm: Q&A

7pm: Networking Reception and Bowl Food Supper

Ken Macdonald KC discusses his career and opportunities at the Employed Bar.

Call 1978; Silk 1997; Inner Temple Bencher 2003. A founder member of Matrix Chambers, he was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 2001 and elected Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association in 2003. Later that year he became Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), the first prominent defence lawyer to have been appointed to that post.

Completing his term as DPP in 2008, he became a trustee of Index on Censorship, the leading free expression advocacy group, and was appointed Chair of Reprieve, the anti-death penalty organisation, in succession to Lord Bingham of Cornhill. He was appointed a Deputy High Court Judge in 2010, and became a member of the House of Lords in the same year.

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