Chris in London
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Thanks for your answer and yes, i was asking is her level up there with the so called best.
I also had no idea that as a member of the Scottish bar you cant sit in an English court?
I watched the morning one of the Scottish QC's did his bit and remember the judges getting a tad pissed off with him as he tried a bit too hard to be clever in front of them.
No, the bars of the three countries (England and Wales counts as one) are limited to their own jurisdictions. So Lord Pannick could no more have appeared in the Court of Session than Joanna Cherry could have appeared in the Divisional Court.
The various offshore jurisdictions (eg Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar and the Isle of man) all have their own bars, and again English barristers do not have rights of audience in those courts.