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Stéphanie Claire Nicolle, KC (born 11 March 1948) is a lawyer who practised in
Jersey Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
. She was HM
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for the island between 1994 and 2008.


Early life and education

Born on 11 March 1948, Nicolle is the daughter of Walter Arthur Nicolle and Madeleine Claire, ''née'' Vitel. After schooling at the Convent of the
Faithful Companions of Jesus The Faithful Companions of Jesus Sisters (FCJ Sisters, French: ''Fidèles compagnes de Jésus'') is a Christian religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church directly subject to the Pope. It was founded in Amiens in France in 1820 by Marie M ...
in
Jersey Jersey ( ; ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and gov ...
, she attended St Aidan's College in the
University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...
."Nicolle, Stéphanie Claire"
''Who's Who 2017'' (A & C Black; online edition, Oxford University Press, November 2016). Retrieved 22 November 2017.


Career

Nicolle was
called to the bar The call to the bar is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party and are then said to have been "called to the bar" or to have received "call to ...
at
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in 1976, and then the Jersey Bar in 1978. She was a Crown Advocate there from 1986 to 1994, when was appointed HM Solicitor General for the Bailiwick. The following year, she became a
Queen's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc ...
(QC) in Jersey. She ceased to be Solicitor General in 2008, but became Adjunct Professor of Immovable Property at Jersey's Institute of Law, before retiring in 2012. She published two books, ''The Jersey Law of Property'' (co-authored with P. Matthews and published in 1991) and ''The Origin and Development of Jersey Law'' (published in 1998).


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nicolle, Stephanie 1948 births Living people Jersey women Jersey lawyers Alumni of St Aidan's College, Durham Members of Gray's Inn British women lawyers