5RB is delighted to announce that Adam Speker QC formally took silk yesterday. Adam received his letters patent from the Lord Chancellor at the traditional ceremony at Westminster Hall before attending before the Lord Chief Justice and other heads of divisions in the Royal Courts of Justice.
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