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This is a new page, created with the intention of making the article about Lincoln's Inn a little easier to navigate.

There is a danger that this is something of a disparate list. At the moment, all I have done is taken the list of people from the Lincoln's Inn article and divided them between the living and the dead. I have not made any additions or deletions at this stage.

It might be useful to indicate which of these people were benchers. It strikes me that not all of them are (or were).

I do question the usefulness of lists like this. I have not deleted it completely though. Informed Owl (talk) 12:24, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

I hope I have divided the living from the dead correctly! Apologies if I have not! Informed Owl (talk) 12:26, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

I have now put the living members in order of their date of birth. I shall try to do the same with deceased members in due course.Informed Owl (talk) 19:26, 6 February 2010 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

New order to the list of names?

While claiming no monopoly over the format of the page, I had set the living and the dead apart, listing each in order of birth. The logic of the present order is not immediately apparent to me. Can someone perhaps explain what it is? Informed Owl (talk) 12:27, 18 November 2011 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

Tariq Javaid

I have deleted the reference to this member again. He does not appear to have a freestanding wikipedia page. I suggest that this be a test (not necessarily the only one) as to inclusion in the list. At any one time, there will be thousands of members of the Inn who are alive, either in practice at the Bar of England and Wales or overseas, in employment, or sitting as judges (here and overseas). There will be several hundred judges in England and Wales alone who are members of the list. Is each one of them to be listed here irrespective of whether they have a Wikipedia entry? May I suggest that a Wikipedia entry be created for Tariq Javaid before his name is reinserted here. When his name is then put back, can a link to the page be provided? The page is otherwise in danger of becoming a disparate list of people, serving no real purpose to the reader.Informed Owl (talk) 20:28, 14 April 2010 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

In need of a tidy up?

The reason for the order in which names appear is not clear. It appears neither to be chronological nor alphabetical. I confess to having spent some time at one stage dividing the names between the living and the dead (although calling them the more tactful "members" and "non members"), being a task which took some time. While I do not claim that my endeavours should be writ in stone, I do wonder why a change to them was made and what the benefit is to the present arrangement. Informed Owl (talk) 19:02, 14 January 2012 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

I have now put the names back in the order I created some time ago, separating the living from the dead and putting each in order of date of birth. The list is in danger of becoming unwieldy with a very wide range of people being included. There was no obvious order to the list of names. I hope putting them in this order will make it slightly more useful.Informed Owl (talk) 10:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC) Informed Owl[reply]

In need of a prune?

Having put the subjects into two groups(the living and the dead) and in date of birth order within each of them, I wonder whether it is time for a bit of pruning.

At any one time there will be thousands of members of the Inn. Some will be in practice, some on the bench, some in politics. What is to be the criteria for inclusion on this list? Do we include every High Court Judge and Lord Justice of Appeal? Do we limit it to the present or all previous such judges? Do we then move onto the circuit bench? I just wonder how useful this page really is now. Informed Owl (talk) 10:51, 11 February 2012 (UTC)Informed Owl[reply]

ASAD Owasis

there is no proof of him being a barrister — Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.72.134.66 (talk) 21:16, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]