Election results: your Council members for 2022–23

The results of the 2022 Law Society Council elections have been announced. The successful candidates will officially take office at the Law Society annual general meeting (AGM) on 12 October.

You can see the full list of successful candidates below:

Election results

Geographical seats

  • North West London – Nehal Vasani
  • South Wales – Clive Thomas
  • Yorkshire & Humberside – Paul Gurparshad Singh

Non-geographical seats

  • Ethnic Minority – Mohammad Gaffar
  • Family – Hannah McCrindle
  • Legal Aid – Nicola Jones-King
  • Major Corporate (1) – Clare Wilson
  • Major Corporate (2) – Fiona Edmond
  • Personal Injury (Defendant) – Nichola Evans
  • Small Firms – Antonino Cuffaro
  • Solicitors with Disabilities – Alexandra Wilson
  • Women Lawyers (1) – Dana Denis-Smith
  • Women Lawyers (2) – Hannah Beko
  • Women Lawyers (3) – Helen Chen
  • Women Lawyers (4) – Karen Bexley
  • Women Lawyers (5) – Danielle Cohen

Candidates elected or re-elected to Council unopposed

Geographical seats

  • Manchester – Steve Kuncewicz
  • Norfolk – David Richards
  • North East – Allan Devine
  • Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire – Nawaz Khan
  • Wolverhampton and Staffordshire - Simon Rollason
  • Plymouth and Cornwall – Steven Hudson
  • South London – Akilah McEwen*
  • Sussex – Andrew Bishop

*No candidate had been nominated by the last date for nominations.

A nomination committee was convened in the constituency in accordance with bye-law 64 to nominate a candidate, who was deemed to be duly elected.

Non-geographical seats

  • Criminal Defence – Ben Brown
  • Criminal Prosecution Services – Stephen Head
  • Employment – Philip Henson
  • Ethnic Minority (member of the Black Solicitors Network) – Cordella Bart-Stewart
  • In-house Corporate Counsel (1) – Paul Cummins
  • In-house Corporate Counsel (2) – Graham Jones
  • In-house Corporate Counsel (3) – Christoph Sicking
  • In-house Voluntary and Charities – Ngaryan Li
  • Law Management – Sarah Sargent
  • LGBT+ – Jonathan Wheeler
  • Local Government – Suki Binjal
  • Personal Injury (Claimant) – Brett Dixon
  • Private Client – Melinda Giles
  • Sole Practitioner – Clive Sutton

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