Lincoln's Inn
Dame Cordelia Ashbourne KC
Head of Constitutional Law
Silk since 2009, twice instructed by the Attorney General. Lectures on parliamentary sovereignty and the limits of judicial review.
The faculty
Twenty-eight practitioners. One academy.
Every tutor at Lex Meridian is a sitting barrister, solicitor or silk. Each has appeared in court within the present term — without exception.
In residence
Heads of programme and tutors.
Inner Temple
Sir Edmund Halloway KC
Head of Advocacy & Litigation
Forty years at the criminal bar. Author of the standard work on cross-examination cited in three commonwealth jurisdictions.
Magic Circle (consulting)
Ravi Subramanian
Head of Corporate Practice
Partner at a leading City firm. Twenty years of M&A and capital markets practice across London, Singapore and New York.
Doughty Street
Naomi Adesanya
Head of Human Rights
Junior counsel in three Strasbourg matters. Trustee of two prominent civil liberties charities and a regular on Today.
Inner Temple
Eleanor Whitcombe
Tutor, Advocacy
Junior tenant and former Lex Meridian student, now teaching the practical advocacy seminars she once attended.
Solicitor, City
Adrian Kowalski
Tutor, Corporate Drafting
Senior associate at a Magic Circle firm with particular expertise in cross-border financing and transaction structuring.
Former High Court Judge
The Hon. Sir James Halloway
Visiting Examiner
Retired from the Bench in 2021. Examines our final orals and marks the constitutional law papers anonymously each summer.
Essex Court
Margaret Ainsworth KC
Tutor, International Law
Silk specialising in public international and investment treaty arbitration. Teaches state responsibility and ICSID procedure.