Master Anwyl (Her Honour Shirley Anwyl KC) died on the weekend of 15 February 2025, aged 84.

Master Anwyl was called to the South African Bar in 1963 and to the Bar of England and Wales in 1966. She took silk in 1979. Her judicial career included serving as a Recorder from 1981 to 1995 and as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Family Division from 1981 to 1999. She was also appointed a Circuit Judge in 1995 and served as Resident Judge at Woolwich Crown Court from 1999 to 2007.  She served as Chair of the Barristers’ Benevolent Association from 1989 to 1995, and she was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts from 1989. She was granted the Freedom of the City of London in 1994 and became a Liveryman of the Fruiterers’ Company in 1996.

Master Anwyl was elected as a Governing Bencher of the Inn in 1985.

The Inn's flag will fly at half-mast in her memory on Friday 21 February.

Details of a funeral and/or memorial service will be circulated in due course as appropriate.