Heather Aspinall and Dan Thomas appointed to Attorney General’s Civil Panel of Counsel

Chambers are delighted to announce that Heather Aspinall and Dan Thomas have been appointed by the Attorney General as Junior Counsel to the Crown.

Both Heather and Dan received letters of appointment from The Right Honourable Jeremy Wright QC MP who described the competition for places on the Panel as “fierce”.

As Junior Counsel to the Crown, Heather and Dan will be undertaking complex civil and EU work for all government departments.

Head of Chambers, Alistair Webster Q.C., commenting on the appointments stated: “I am delighted to congratulate Dan Thomas and Heather Aspinall upon their appointments to the Attorney-General’s civil panel. This is a reflection of the way in which LHC is now an increasingly multi-disciplinary set of chambers. Dan and Heather are both young and highly talented barristers and no-one who knows them will be surprised at this latest recognition of their worth. We will continue to expand the civil and regulatory sides of the practices of members of chambers, a process which is being met with great success.”

Our civil team were also recognised this year in the Legal 500: “the civil team unites a number of fields of practice. The work covered includes general common law but there is an established specialist team with a national reputation that concentrates on complex personal injury, including industrial disease work (eg British Coal respiratory disease litigation, miners’ knee litigation, surface dust) and catastrophic injury claims.”