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Tracy Ayling KC

Reader-Elect, 2026

Tracy Ayling KC is a practising barrister, whose chambers are at 2 BR Chancery Lane. Tracy was called to the Bar by Inner Temple in 1983 and was elected as a Bencher in 2011. She took silk in 2006. Tracy practises in crime, both prosecuting and defending in some of the highest profile cases.

Her involvement with the Inn after Call started with advocacy training, becoming a Teacher Trainer in 2008, and Chair of the Advocacy Training Committee in 2015. Tracy continues to teach advocacy to pupils and new practitioners both at home and internationally, including in Sierra Leone, Romania and the USA.

She has served on both the Executive Committee and the Treasurer Nomination Committee. She was the Inn’s representative on the COIC Tribunal Appointments Board and is a Trustee of the Temple Music Trust and of the Temple Church.

From 2019 she was the Chair of Education for the Criminal Bar Association and regularly lectures on matters in relation to Vulnerable witnesses. She is also the author of the chapter on disclosure in Vulnerable People and the Criminal Justice System (Cooper and Norton, ed., OUP), the leading book on the participation of vulnerable witnesses and defendants in the criminal justice system.