Council constituencies and current members
Our Council advocates for the diverse needs of solicitors across England and Wales, helping to shape our strategic direction and support the future of the profession.
Council constituencies
We encourage you to contact your Council members with any issues you would like raised at Council meetings. Find geographical constituency seats, work practice seats and characteristic seats below.
Geographical constituency seats
Our Council has 46 members representing 38 geographical constituencies across England and Wales.
Council members in geographical constituency seats:
- Birmingham: Mary Kaye
- Bristol: Salma Maqsood
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough: Michael Frape
- Central and South Lancashire: Asma Ruksar
- Central London: Matt Aleksic, Shainul Kassam, Sangita Manek, Laura Uberoi and vacant
- Cheshire: Mark Brown
- Cross Border Wales: Scott Bowen
- Cumbria and Lancaster: Claire Logan
- Derbyshire, East Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire: Shama Gupta
- Devon and Somerset: Richard Adams
- Dorset: Peter Watson-Lee
- Essex: Karen Dovaston
- Gloucestershire and Wiltshire: Simon David
- Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: Josephine Duchenne
- Kent: Richard Atkinson
- Lincolnshire: vacant
- Liverpool: Jeremy Myers
- Leeds: Nick Emmerson
- Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland: Steven Mather
- Manchester, Salford, Stockport and District: Jeff Lewis and Steve Kuncewicz
- Mid and West Wales: Mark Davies
- Norfolk: David Richards
- North East London: Rosemin Keshvani
- North Wales: Mark Evans
- North West London: Nehal Vasani
- North East: Allan Devine and Guy Goodings
- Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: Matthew Gauntlett
- Plymouth and Cornwall: Steve Hudson
- Shropshire and Herefordshire: vacant
- South: Adrienne Edgerley-Harris
- South London: Akilah McEwen
- South Wales: Clive Thomas
- Suffolk: Donna Taylor
- Surrey: Sushila Abraham
- Sussex: Andrew Bishop
- Warwickshire and Worcestershire: Elizabeth Miles
- Wolverhampton and Staffordshire: Simon Rollason
- Yorkshire and Humberside: Amy Clowrey, Phillip Horsfield and Mark Newby
Non-geographical seats
Our Council has 51 members representing our non-geographical seats, referred to as the work practice and characteristic constituencies.
If the executive of the organisation chooses, these seats may be filled by nomination of the executive rather than by election. Other seats are filled by election.
Work practice seats
Council members in work practice seats:
- Business and Commercial: Mark Stephen Anderson
- Central Government: Eleri Wones
- Childcare: Denise Lester
- Civil Litigation (non-personal injury): Charlotte Hill
- Commercial Property: Russell Hewitson
- Criminal Defence: Gareth Jones
- Criminal Prosecution Services: Stephen Head
- Employment: Shantha David
- EU and international: Jonathan Goldsmith
- Family: Hannah McCrindle
- Housing: Daniel Fitzpatrick
- Immigration: Jessica Yu
- In-house Corporate Counsel: Christoph Sicking, Graham Jones, Matthew Gingell and Paul Cummins
- In-house Voluntary and Charities: Ngaryan Li
- Law Management: Sarah Sargent
- Legal Aid: Nicola Jones-King
- Local Government: vacant
- Major Corporate: Clare Wilson, David Patient, Fiona Edmond and Peter Young
- Personal Injury (claimant): Brett Dixon
- Personal Injury (defendant): Nichola Evans
- Private Client: Melinda Giles
- Residential Property: Peter Rodd
- Small Firms: Nino Cuffaro
- Sole Practitioners: Lubna Shuja and Clive Sutton
Characteristic seats
Council members in characteristic seats:
- 6 to 12 years' PQE: Louise Duckett and Uche Osemeke
- Ethnic Minority Solicitors (member of the Black Solicitors Network): Cordella Bart-Stewart
- Ethnic Minority Solicitors: Kyle Blackburn, Mohammad Gaffar, Muntech Kaur and Shannett Thompson
- Junior Solicitors (0 to 6 years' PQE): Reanne Anthony, Lauren Basham, Sophia Hanif, Marque Janneh, Bethany Walker and Martin Whitehorn
- LGBTQ+ Solicitors: Jonathan Wheeler
- Disabled Solicitors: Alexandra Wilson
- Women Solicitors: Dana Denis-Smith, Danielle Cohen, Hannah Beko, Helen Chen and Karen Bexley
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