With the approval of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the Rt. Hon William Hague MP, His Excellency the Governor has appointed the following persons to be Queen’s Counsel (QC):

Colin McKie, Partner, Maples and Calder

Ian Paget-Brown, Senior Attorney and Chairman of the Law Reform Commission.

Eileen Nervick JP, Senior Attorney, Nervik & Company

Trevor Ward, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions

In each of the Overseas Territories, the rank of Queen’s Counsel may be granted to a very limited number of senior legal practitioners.  The Governor has made the appointments as Queen’s Counsel on the recommendation of the Judiciary and with the approval of the Secretary of State.

The appointments having been made by the execution by the Governor of the Warrants of Appointment, the formal admissions to the Inner Bar will take place in open Court before the Chief Justice and judges of the Grand Court on a date to be announced.

These are the first appointments of new QCs in the Cayman Islands since 2010.

Editor’s Note: (From Wikipedia):

Queen’s Counsel (postnominal QC), known as King’s Counsel (postnominal KC) during the reign of a male sovereign, are jurists appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty’s Counsel learned in the law. Membership exists in various Commonwealth jurisdictions around the world, while in some other jurisdictions the name has been replaced by one without monarchical connotations, such as “Senior Counsel” or “Senior Advocate”. Queen’s Counsel is a status, conferred by the Crown, that is recognised by courts. Members have the privilege of sitting within the Bar of court.

As members wear silk gowns of a particular design (see court dress), the award of Queen’s or King’s Counsel is known informally as taking silk, and hence QCs are often colloquially called silks. Appointments are made from within the legal profession on the basis of merit rather than a particular level of experience. However, successful applicants tend to be barristers, or (in Scotland) advocates, or solicitor advocates with 15 years’ experience or more.