Council constituencies and current members
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Council has 100 seats, with 61 members representing 42 geographical constituencies and up to 39 members representing special interest groups and areas of practice.
We encourage you to contact your Council members with any issues you would like raised at Council meetings. You can also get involved by joining the Council.
Geographical constituency seats
Our geographical constituencies are:
- Central and South Middlesex – Michael Garson (email/profile)
- The City of London – Paul Barnes (email / profile), Salome Coker (email/profile), Simon Davies (email/profile), Christopher Vigrass (email/profile), Ed Crosse (email/profile)
- Holborn – Fraser Whitehead (email/profile), Pavel Klimov (email/profile)
- North East London – Caroline Newman (email/profile)
- West London – Saima Hirji (email/profile), Lucy Scott-Moncrieff (email/profile)
- North Middlesex – Cordella Bart-Stewart (email/profile)
- South London – David Taylor (email/profile)
- The City of Westminster – Jeffrey Forrest (email/profile), Nicola Rubbert (email/profile), Beth Forrester (email/profile)
- Croydon and North Kent – Eunice Shang-Simpson (email/profile)
- Kent – Richard Atkinson (email/profile)
- Surrey – Alastair Logan (email), Sushila Abraham (email/profile)
- Inner Sussex – Oliver Maxwell-Jones (email/profile)
- Outer Sussex – Holly Goacher (email/profile)
- Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire – Mohammed Nawaz Khan (email/profile)
- Berkshire and North Hampshire – Razi Shah (email/profile)
- Hampshire and the Isle of Wight – Nicholas Gurney-Champion (email/profile)
- Dorset – Peter Watson-Lee (email/profile)
- West Country and Gwent – Richard Adams (email), Steve Hudson (email/profile), Scott Bowen (email/profile), Kathryn King (née Broughton) (email/profile)
- South Wales – Sarah Watkins (email/profile)
- Mid and West Wales – Carolyn Kirby (email)
- The Welsh Marches – Patricia Beeching (email/profile)
- Coventry and Warwickshire – Andrew Nyamayaro (email/profile)
- Birmingham and District – Mary Kaye (email/profile), Ravinder Singh Chumber (email/profile)
- Wolverhampton and Staffordshire – vacancy
- Cheshire and North Wales – Mark Evans (email/profile)
- Merseyside and District – Nina Ferris (email/profile), Sarah Lapsley (email/profile)
- Manchester, Salford, Stockport and District – Jeff Lewis (email/profile), Steve Kuncewicz (email/profile)
- Central Lancashire and Northern Greater Manchester – Joe Egan (email/profile), Asma Ruksar (email/profile)
- Cumbria and Lancaster – Claire Logan (email/profile)
- Northumbria – Allan Devine (email/profile), Christopher Noon (email/profile)
- Yorkshire – David Barraclough (email/profile), Mark Newby (email/profile), Peter Wright (email/profile)
- Derbyshire and East Staffordshire – Michael Williams (email/profile)
- Nottinghamshire – Shama Gupta (email/profile)
- Lincolnshire – Nicholas Fluck (email/profile)
- Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland – Linda Lee (email/profile)
- Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire – Michael Frape (email/profile)
- Hertfordshire – Paul Davies (email/profile)
- Norfolk – Richard Barr (email/profile)
- Suffolk and North Essex – Roger Buston (email/profile)
- Essex – Tony Fisher (email/profile)
- Leeds – Nick Emmerson (email/profile)
- Bristol – Ian Kelcey (email/profile)
Special interest seats
A number of our special interest seats, often referred to as the non-geographical seats, represent particular organisations of solicitors. If the executive of the organisation chooses, these seats may be filled by nomination of the executive rather than by election.
Examples of such groups include the Women Lawyers Division, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, and the Employment Lawyers' Association. Other special interest seats are filled by election in the same way as the geographic seats.
Council members in non-geographical seats:
- Association of Personal Injury Lawyers – Brett Dixon (email/profile)
- Black Solicitors' Network – Joe Mensah-Dankwah (email/profile)
- Child Care Law – Denise Lester (email/profile)
- Civil Litigation – Peter Causton (email/profile)
- Commerce and Industry Group – Smita Oza (email/profile) and Mark Harvey (email)
- Commercial Property – David Steed (email/profile)
- Criminal Defence – Bill Waddington (email/profile)
- Crown Prosecution Service – Guy Davies (email/profile)
- Employment Lawyers Association – Clive Dobbin (email/profile)
- Ethnic Minorities – Sundeep Bhatia (email/profile), Koser Shaheen (email/profile) and Nwabueze Nwokolo (email/profile)
- EU Matters – Jonathan Goldsmith (email/profile)
- Forum of Insurance Lawyers – Nichola Evans (email/profile)
- Government Legal Servic – Simon Harker (email/profile)
- Housing Law – Daniel Fitzpatrick (email/profile)
- Immigration Law – Evelyn Ofori-Koree (email/profile)
- Junior Lawyers Division (solicitor member) – Laura Uberoi (email/profile) and James Kitching (email/profile)
- Junior Lawyers Division (trainee/student member) – Sinéad McGrath (email)
- Law Management Section – Paul Bennett (email/profile)
- Lawyers with Disabilities Division – Yasmin Sheikh (profile) is currently on maternity leave. In her absence, Placida Ojinnaka (email) is representing this division.
- Lawyers in Local Government – Beverley Cullen (email/profile) and Maria Memoli (email/profile)
- Legal Aid Practitioners' Group – Nicola Mackintosh QC (Hon) (email/profile)
- LGBT+ – Christopher Morgan (email/profile)
- Private Client Section – Melinda Giles (email/profile)
- Residential Conveyancing – Peter Rodd (email/profile)
- Solicitor Sole Practitioners Group – Lubna Shuja (email/profile) and Clive Sutton (email/profile)
- Voluntary Sector – Prof. Sara Chandler QC (Hon) (email/profile)
- Women Lawyers' Division – Sarah Austin (email/profile), Christina Blacklaws (email/profile) and Stephanie Boyce (email/profile)
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