Four new Ordinary Benchers of Lincoln’s Inn elected

Mark Harper KC

Mark Harper KC is Joint Head of Chambers at Kings Chambers and a member of their Business and Property team. Called to the Bar in 1993 and appointed King’s Counsel (QC) in 2016, Mark is the Chair of the Northern Business & Property Bar Association, a Door Tenant at 3 Hare Court Chambers, and appears regularly in the Court of Appeal, High Court and in Arbitrations. Ranked in Chambers & Partners as a leading silk across six practice areas (Banking, Chancery Litigation, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Company, Partnership and Professional Negligence) and is currently ranked as a Star Individual by Chambers & Partners.

Mark was the first Senior Representative of the Inn on the Northern Circuit and is a member of the Inn’s Scholarship Committee. Outside of the Bar he is a season ticket holder at Sales Sharks, enjoys gardening, weight training and climbing in the mountains on the Isle of Arran.

Paul Jarvis KC

Paul Jarvis KC is Senior Treasury Counsel at the Central Criminal Court, appointed by the Attorney General. He was called to the Bar in 2001 and appointed King’s Counsel in 2025. He prosecutes the country’s most serious criminal cases for the Crown Prosecution Service and regularly appears in the Court of Appeal on behalf of the Law Officers. He also maintains a substantial defence practice spanning business and financial crime, money laundering, homicide, and serious sexual offending. In addition, Paul appears in judicial review proceedings before the Administrative Court and advises police forces and government departments on matters at the intersection of civil and criminal law.

Clare Strickland

Clare Strickland, called to the Bar in 1994, is a Partner and Head of the Regulatory Group at Blake Morgan, specialising in advising and representing regulators and individuals facing regulatory action. She has particular expertise in the healthcare, legal and education sectors. She started her career in chambers, specialising in crime and licensing, then moved to roles as an in-house barrister and later Deputy Director at a large healthcare regulator. She set up the regulator’s in-house pupillage scheme and supervised her first pupil in 2008. She has been an advocacy trainer at the Inn for nearly 20 years, and spent over a decade as a member of the Bar Council’s Ethics Committee and Employed Barristers’ Committee.

Ian Park

Ian Park is a barrister at Essex Court Chambers. Called to the Bar in 2003, he is a former Commodore in the Royal Navy, where his 23-year career culminated in his appointment as Head of Navy Legal and the Royal Navy’s senior barrister. An international law specialist, Ian has deployed on operations to Afghanistan and the Middle East and has advised the UK Government, NATO, and the UK’s allies and partners on a wide range of areas, including International Humanitarian Law, the Law of the Sea, and International Criminal Law.  He holds a DPhil from Oxford, is a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School and the author or co-author of five books, including the monograph The Right to Life in Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2018). Ian has a particular interest in the law applicable to emerging technologies in conflict, including artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cyber operations, and the military uses of outer space.