Michael Jones KC practised from chambers in South Wales before joining the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in 2009 as the first Senior Crown Advocate in Wales. In 2018 he was appointed Queen’s Counsel, the first ever such appointment from the CPS in Wales. He also remains, in silk, a pupil supervisor. He is a Middle Temple Bencher, a Middle Temple Advocacy Trainer and Student Sponsor, one of three National Advocacy Panel Assessors for the CPS and a member of the national CPS/Bar Diversity and Inclusive Panel. In 2018, he was in the final shortlist of three for the Bar Council’s ‘Employed Barrister of the Year’ Awards. He is a member of the Bar Council and past Chair of its Employed Barristers’ Committee, past Chair of the Employed Bar Society at Middle Temple, Member of the Bench Selection Advisory Committee of Middle Temple, Secretary of the Middle Temple Wales Circuit Society, Member of the Wales and Chester Circuit, a door tenant at 30, Park Place Chambers in Cardiff and Chairman of the Welsh Senedd/Parliamentary Rugby XV.
Mike Jones KC, the first Senior Crown advocate from Wales to take silk, talks about his career pathway, the ‘one Bar’ philosophy and what the future holds
Update from the Chair of the Bar
By Clement Cowley, Partner at The Penny Group
Modernising communication and collaboration at a leading Chancery set. A Zexi case study
How to build profile without compromising professional duties. By Naumaan Farooq, Co-Founder of Inked PR
Marie Law, Director of Toxicology at AlphaBiolabs, examines the role of cut-off levels, and the wider range of factors that must be considered when interpreting results for family court proceedings
Endometriosis Awareness North, a charity raising awareness of endometriosis and supporting those affected across the North of England, has received a £500 boost from AlphaBiolabs via the company’s Giving Back initiative
The case against judge-only justice – and why efficiency is not enough. By Professor Leslie Thomas KC
Jemima Coleman and Zoë Leventhal KC on the evolving global movement seeking to reframe how we view nature: to recognise that nature possesses inherent rights and to enshrine these rights in law
Heritage as an anchor and a compass, finding our common humanity and embracing the power of the outsider – Melina Antoniadis’s lessons learnt
Seeing the full picture – Baljit Ubhey OBE outlines the CPS action plan to tackle violence against women and girls, offering insights directly relevant to courtroom practice
Lauren Fullerton examines the how, what and why of setting up a second chambers base
