The lawyer Adam Tolley KC is not renowned outside legal circles but he has qualities that made him a safe pair of hands for the important and sensitive task of producing the report on bullying allegations that will probably determine Dominic Raab’s political future.
He has not acted in a case that would have established him in the public consciousness and he is not on Twitter, unlike many of his fellow barristers, some of whom have huge followings (although they tend to practise different specialities). Called to the bar in 1994 and made a silk in 2014, his lack of public profile may have been a plus for Rishi Sunak – preventing journalists from scouring his social media for controversy.
