{"id":76259,"date":"2016-11-18T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=142db553b4de7ee9bb4225025dcd1eb6"},"modified":"2016-11-18T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T11:00:13","slug":"press-release-knighthoods-and-dbes-conferred-18-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=76259","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Knighthoods and DBEs conferred: 18 November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Queen has been pleased to approve that the honour of Knighthood be conferred upon Mr Peter Nicholas Francis <abbr title=\"Queen's Counsel\">QC<\/abbr>, Mr Nicholas Lavender, Esquire <abbr title=\"Queen's Counsel\">QC<\/abbr> and Mr Stephen Nathan Morris, Esquire <abbr title=\"Queen's Counsel\">QC<\/abbr>, and that the honour of Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) be conferred upon Miss Nerys Angharad Jefford <abbr title=\"Queen's Counsel\">QC<\/abbr>, and Miss Finola Mary O\u2019Farrell <abbr title=\"Queen's Counsel\">QC<\/abbr>, on their appointment as Justices of the High Court.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"background\">Background<\/h2>\n<p>Peter Nicholas Francis <abbr title=\"Queen's Counsel\">QC<\/abbr> was called to the Bar (M) in 1981 and took Silk in 2002. He was appointed as an Assistant Recorder in 1999, as a Recorder in 2000 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Lavender was called to the Bar (I) in 1989 and took Silk in 2008. He was appointed as a Recorder in 2010 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Nathan Morris was called to the Bar (L) in 1981 and took Silk in 2002. He was appointed as an Assistant Recorder in 1998, as a Recorder in 2000 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Nerys Angharad Jefford was called to the Bar (G) in 1986 and took Silk in 2008. She was appointed as a Recorder in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Finola Mary O\u2019Farrell was called to the Bar (I) in 1983 and took Silk in 2002. She was appointed as a Recorder in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has approved Knighthoods for Peter Francis, Nicholas Lavender and Stephen Morris, and DBEs for Nerys Jefford and Finola O\u2019Farrell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}