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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/Asia News Newtwork): Bruneian lawyer and arbitrator, Professor Dr Colin Ong has made history as the first Asean national legal practitioner to have been bestowed by the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to be a Queen’s Counsel (QC) in 2017.
Charles III brings many small changes.
Kwasi Kwarteng's mother is a top lawyer who faced down prejudice to reach the top of her profession - after coming to the UK from Ghana in the 1960s with his father.
Charlotte Boaitey-Kwarteng (above in 2018), 78, is head of 12 Square Chambers, which is based in Holborn in north London and specialises in human rights, immigration and public law.
At its Annual General Conference held in Lagos last week, the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) perfected the change of guards, between its former President,