Anesta Weekes QC
1981
(QC 1999)
Practice
Specialising in:
Please click on the headings above for the details of Anesta’s recent cases in each individual area.
Appointments
2000 Recorder of the Crown Court
1999 Queen ’s Counsel
1999 Assistant Recorder
Advocacy Training/Speaking engagements
Head of Education and Training for chambers.
Tutor Judge for JSB (judicial studies Board) for full and part-time judges in crime (6 days per annum) - dealing with substantive law, procedure and sentence.
Advocacy trainer for the annual advance Keble College advocacy course.
2009 - CLT speaker on "proceeds of crime and confiscation"
2008 - CLT speaker on “confiscation and the family home”
2008 - drafting grounds of appeal for court of appeal for Inns of Court School of law.
2008 - speaker for Legal IQ on Corruption and Bribery.
2007 - speaker for “Law London Criminal Conference” –‘preparing your client for confiscation’.
2001 to present - Chair of the British Caribbean Jurist Group for the Bar Council’s International Relations Committee. (Delivering training and expertise on all areas of access to justice in British speaking Caribbean Islands. Recent conference for DPP’s of the region –the challenges of prosecuting serious crime and corruption).
2000 - Member of advocacy team teaching advocacy skills to lawyers in the War crimes tribunal in the Hague.
1996 member of team of lawyers from UK to conduct training workshops in advocacy for the South African Bar.
1994 to present - Advocacy teacher and trainer for Gray’s Inn. Teaching advocacy to student members and training teachers.
Work related experience in general:
Past part-time chair of employment tribunal (ending 2007)
Arbitrator for the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal (An International Administrative Tribunal, dealing with disputes for those who have a contract with the Commonwealth Secretariat – usually contracts of employment—average of one case per annum ).
Past appearances on Television and Radio on legal matters.
Past vice chair of Bar Counsel on equality issues.
Discrimination issues - continued membership of the Industrial Society and discrimination lawyers association ensures up to date knowledge of this important subject. ( this was a central issue in both the Morris Inquiry and the recent Solicitors Regulation Authority working party. It has remained an important issue for all public authorities since the Lawrence inquiry).
Professional Memberships
Criminal Bar Association.
PCLA - Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association.
Member of the Bar Council’s International Relations Committee.
Chair of the British Caribbean Jurist Group (projects on access to justice in British Caribbean region)
Industrial Law Society.
Discrimination Lawyers Association.
Awards
1999 - runner up - 'The Times Woman of Year'.
Education
Keele University (BA Joint Honours).