Barbara Mills KC: ” Delighted to be the Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales in 2025!”

Delighted to be the Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales in 2025!

Looking forward to working with Kirsty Brimelow KC and Lucinda Orr

First time the Bar has had an all female officer team at the helm. Onwards!

Barbara Mills KC is chair of the Bar 2025. Barbara is joint head of chambers at 4PB and

practises in family law specialising in difficult and complex children cases, often with an

international element.

Barbara is an arbitrator and a mediator, sits as a deputy High Court judge, and has been

a recorder on the South Eastern Circuit for over 10 years. Barbara is also a governing bencher at Inner Temple.

Kirsty Brimelow KC is vice chair of the Bar 2025. Kirsty practises in criminal, international and public law from

Doughty Street Chambers, where she is on the management board as co-head of the Criminal Law team.

Kirsty was appointed a recorder in 2022 and deputy High Court judge in 2021.

She is an accredited mediator and acts in conflict resolution.

Kirsty currently represents Gray’s Inn. Kirsty was the first female chair of the Bar Human Rights committee (2012 to 2018)

and the vice chair and then chair of the Criminal Bar Association (2021 to 2023).

She is a bencher of Gray’s Inn, a trustee of the charity WWF, and visiting professor at Goldsmiths faculty of law.

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