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.

Geographical constituency seats

Our geographical constituencies are:

Central and South Middlesex - Michael Garson
The City of London - Paul Barnes, Salome Coker, Simon Davis, Christopher Vigrass and Ed Crosse
Holborn - Fraser Whitehead and Pavel Klimov
North East London - Caroline Newman
West London - Saima Hirji and Lucy Scott-Moncrieff
North Middlesex - Cordella Bart-Stewart
South London - David Taylor
The City of Westminster - Jeffrey Forrest, Nicola Rubbert and Beth Forrester
Croydon and North Kent - Eunice Shang-Simpson
Kent - Richard Atkinson
Surrey - Alastair Logan and Sushila Abraham
Inner Sussex - Oliver Maxwell-Jones
Outer Sussex - Holly Goacher
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire - Mohammed Nawaz Khan
Berkshire and North Hampshire - Razi Shah
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight - Nicholas Gurney-Champion
Dorset - Peter Watson-Lee
West Country and Gwent - Richard Adams, Steve Hudson, Scott Bowen and Kathryn King (née Broughton)
South Wales - Sarah Watkins
Mid and West Wales - Carolyn Kirby
The Welsh Marches - Patricia Beeching
Coventry and Warwickshire - Andrew Nyamayaro
Birmingham and District - Mary Kaye and Ravinder Singh Chumber
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire - vacancy
Cheshire and North Wales - Mark Evans
Merseyside and District - Nina Ferris and Sarah Lapsley
Manchester, Salford, Stockport and District - Jeff Lewis and Steve Kuncewicz
Central Lancashire and Northern Greater Manchester - Joe Egan and Asma Ruksar
Cumbria and Lancaster - Claire Logan
Northumbria - Allan Devine and Christopher Noon
Yorkshire - David Barraclough, Mark Newby and Peter Wright
Derbyshire and East Staffordshire - Michael Williams
Nottinghamshire - Shama Gupta
Lincolnshire - Nicholas Fluck
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland - Linda Lee
Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire - Michael Frape
Hertfordshire - Paul Davies
Norfolk - Richard Barr
Suffolk and North Essex - Roger Buston
Essex - Tony Fisher
Leeds - Nick Emmerson
Bristol - Ian Kelcey

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

Black Solicitors' Network - Joe Mensah-Dankwah

Child Care Law - Denise Lester

Civil Litigation - Peter Causton

Commerce and Industry Group - Smita Oza and Mark Harvey

Commercial Property - David Steed

Criminal Defence - Bill Waddington

Crown Prosecution Service - Guy Davies

Employment Lawyers Association - Clive Dobbin

Ethnic Minorities - Sundeep Bhatia, Koser Shaheen and Nwabueze Nwokolo

EU Matters - Jonathan Goldsmith