Graeme Hall wins International Pro Bono Barrister of the Year award in the Advocate Bar Pro Bono Awards 2026

Doughty Street Chambers is delighted to congratulate Graeme Hall on winning the International Pro Bono Barrister of the Year award at the Advocate Bar Pro Bono Awards 2026.

This award recognises Graeme’s longstanding commitment to representing and supporting individuals facing the death penalty and lengthy custodial sentences across multiple jurisdictions.

Graeme has dedicated his career to the promotion of international human rights, focussing in particular on the abolition of the death penalty. Graeme regularly undertakes work before the Privy Council and elsewhere, for those at risk of the death penalty. Graeme works closely with the Death Penalty Project, and is currently instructed in matters arising from Taiwan, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Bermuda, and Uganda.

Championing Graeme’s nomination, former Head of Doughty Street Chambers, Edward Fitzgerald KC said, ‘Graeme exemplifies the Bar’s commitment to pro bono work’. 

In their nomination of Graeme, The Death Penalty Project stated that:

“Whilst the cases we work on with Graeme are often aimed at addressing a wider point of public policy, Graeme never loses sight of clients at the heart of the case and is doggedly focused on achieving the best possible outcome for them.”

Read more about Graeme’s practice here.

For more information about Graeme, please contact our Senior Crime Clerk, Matthew Butchard. 
 

(Pictured are Graeme Hall and Kirsty Brimelow KC, Chair of The Bar Council of England and Wales, also of Doughty Street Chambers)