Master Solicitor 2025-2026, Virginia Cannon (Ginny), was an in-house lawyer for most of her career.  

Firstly, with British Telecom, where she was BT Broadcast Services’ first Dedicated Lawyer, subsequently becoming BT’s International Compliance Manager. Later, Ginny moved to London Underground, dealing with its Public-Private Partnership and Private Finance Initiative contracts, retiring in 2010. 

As a volunteer, Ginny is former Chair and current trustee of The Solicitors’ Charity; former Chair and current Committee member of the Association of Women Solicitors, London; former Chair and current Trustee of the Investment Managers’ Charitable Trust (associated with the Guild of Investment Managers); and former Chair of the Friends of Moorfields Eye Hospital. 

Ginny has a passion for opera and ballet, and for finding out what makes people tick. 
 
Ginny is married to Richard Salter, KC, who is the Treasurer of the Inner Temple 2025.