Success rate falls again as 96 new KCs are named

The appointments of 96 new King’s Counsel were announced today, with the success rate falling for the seventh year in a row.

Eight honorary KCs were also named, including Colin Passmore, the chairman of the City of London Law Society and former senior partner of City firm Simmons & Simmons; solicitor Dean Dunham, a prominent consumer law expert and ADR advocate; Peter Kandler, a solicitor who co-founded the UK’s first law centre and was its first director, in North Kensington, in 1970; and HHJ Emma Nott, who was nominated for her efforts to drive fairness and equality at the Bar.