Council constituencies and current members
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
Forum of Insurance Lawyers - Nichola Evans
Government Legal Service - Simon Harker
Housing Law - Daniel Fitzpatrick
Immigration Law - Evelyn Ofori-Koree
Junior Lawyers Division (solicitor member) - Laura Uberoi and James Kitching
Junior Lawyers Division (trainee/student member) - Sinéad McGrath
Law Management Section - Paul Bennett
Lawyers with Disabilities Division - Yasmin Sheikh is currently on maternity leave. In her absence, Placida Ojinnaka is representing this division.
Lawyers in Local Government - Beverley Cullen and Maria Memoli
Legal Aid Practitioners' Group - Nicola Mackintosh QC (Hon)
LGBT+ - Christopher Morgan
Private Client Section - Melinda Giles
Residential Conveyancing - Peter Rodd
Solicitor Sole Practitioners Group - Lubna Shuja and Clive Sutton
Voluntary Sector - Prof. Sara Chandler QC (Hon)
Women Lawyers' Division - Sarah Austin, Christina Blacklaws and Stephanie Boyce
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