Council constituencies and current members

09 Oct 2024

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Council has 97 seats, with 47 members representing 39 geographical constituencies, and 50 members representing work practice and characteristic constituencies.

We encourage you to contact your Council members with any issues you would like raised at Council meetings.

Geographical constituency seats

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 and Laura Uberoi
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: vacant
Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: Josephine Duchenne
Kent: Richard Atkinson
Lincolnshire: vacancy
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

A number of our non-geographical seats, referred to as the work practice and characteristic 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. 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: Philip Henson
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: vacancy
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