Miss Janice Brennan
Barrister
ICC
Barrister; occasional work for Bar Pro Bono Unit; Bencher, Middle Temple; member, Western Circuit.
Inns’ Conduct Committee
The Inns’ Conduct Committee (ICC) considers matters of general policy or process relating to the determination of whether an Inn of Court should refuse to admit an applicant for admission, or expel or refuse to Call a student to the Bar.
The ICC has delegated its powers and functions to hear such cases to the members of the BTAS Disciplinary Pool – a group of individuals selected, trained and regularly appraised to ensure their ability to consider and determine such matters is of the highest standards. Instead, the role of the members of the ICC is to:
- Work to ensure that appropriate policies and processes are in place to determine whether persons are eligible for admission to an Inn or Call to the Bar by considering whether they are fit and proper persons to become practising barristers;
- Serve as members of Screening Panels; considering documentation from the Inns about applicants/students to determine the appropriate subsequent handling of any case. In particular, to decide whether there is information that suggests that an individual may not be a fit and proper person to become a practising barrister;
- Recognise that it is the intention of the four Inns of Court that membership of the Inns should reflect the diversity of society, and apply the principles of this in all their work;
The ICC’s membership is set out in Part III of the Inns Conduct Committee Rules – 2020, and is as follows:
- A Chair
- Two Vice-Chairs (one barrister and one lay representative)
- Four barrister members, one selected from each of the four Inns of Court
- Two lay members
The list below shows the details of the barrister and lay committee members of the Inns Conduct Committee:
Mrs Helen Carter-Shaw MA (Cantab)
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Company Director, Jigsaw Management Services Ltd – offering consultancy and project management services to (mainly) public and 3rd sector organisations; member; Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) Disciplinary Committee; Chair, ACCA admissions and licensing, disciplinary and appeals committee; specialist lay member, Mental Health Tribunal.
Mr Peter Causton
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister of Middle Temple; Director, Promedite [UK] Ltd. [Mediation Provider]; Consultant, Southerns Solicitors; Deputy District Judge, Northern Circuit; Treasurer, UK Association of Fee Paid Judges; Member, Law Society Council; Member, Civil Mediation Council;
Mr Ian Clarke QC [ICC Chair] LLB Hons, FCI Arb
Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn)
ICC
Self-employed barrister; Judge, First-tier Tribunal [Property Chamber]; member, Professional Negligence Bar Association; member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Association of Contentious Trust & Probate Specialists; member, member, Property Bar Association; member, Bar Pro Bono Unit; Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn; reviewer, Bar Pro Bono Unit; member, Conservative Party.
Ms Lyndsey de Mestre QC QC
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, Mediator and Arbitrator; member, Middle Temple; Chancellor, St Albans Diocese [Church of England judicial part time appointment]; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel [Eastern Region – part time tribunal chair]; member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Association of Contentions Trusts and Probate Specialists; member, Ecclesiastical Judges Association; member, Ecclesiastical Lawyers Association; member, Arbitral Women; member, LCIA; member, Civil Mediation Council; member, Bar Choral Society.
Ms Hayley Firman
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Employed Barrister; Head of RSPCA Prosecutions; Member, Inner Temple.
Mr John Foy QC
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister of Gray’s Inn; Member PIBA and PNBA.
Dr Howard Freeman JP, MA[Cantab], MB, BS, FRCGP
Lay
ICC
Clinical Director, NHS Partners Network – NHS Confederation; Chair, Interim Orders Panel – GMC; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel – NMC AND GMC; Professional Member, Care Standard, Primary Health List, Crime Injury Compensation Authority, War Pension, Social Security; Justice of the Peace, central London Bench; member, National Liberal Club; member, BMA; member, Conservative Medical Society (former national chair);
Mr Michael Gibbon QC
Chairman (Gray's Inn)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed barrister; Committee member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); member, Wales and Chester Circuit; Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn, Governor, King’s College School Cambridge; Council member, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion.
Mr Jonathan Glasson QC
Chairman (Middle Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Human Rights Lawyers Association [HRLA]; Member, Inquest Lawyers Group; Member, Professional Negligence Bar Association [PNBA]; Supporter, Labour Party.
Ms Janine Green
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed Lay Member; Lay Member, Scottish 1st Tier Property Tribunal; Member, Independent Appeals Panel for the Department for Transport; Subject Matter Expert, Metropolitan Police; Lay Member, West Midlands Police Ethics Committee; Trustee, ASB Help; Consultant, Council and Housing Associations [in relation to Community Safety];
Mr John Hamilton
Barrister
ICC
Barrister; First Tier Tribunal Judge [part time]; specialist lay member, Mental Health Review Tribunal; lay member, Parking Adjudictor [part time]; Associate Hospital Manager, East London Mental Health Trust; member, Family Law Bar Association; member, Anti Slavery International.
Ms Saima Hanif
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn; Member, FSLA, COMBAR, ALBA.
Ms Sally Harrison QC
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Practising Barrister; Head of Chambers – St Johns Buildings; Member, Family Law Bar Association.
Ms Siobhan Heron
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Employed Barrister, working within the Crown Prosecution Service as Head of the Complex Casework Unit; member Middle Temple
Mr Jonathan Holl-Allen QC
Chairman (Inner Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Professional Negligence Bar Association [PNBA]; Member, London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association [LCLCBA].
Mr Edwin Johnson QC
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; member, Property Bar Association; member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Ms Jennifer Jones MA (Oxon)
Barrister (Lincoln's Inn)
ICC
Self-employed barrister; member, Atkin Chambers; member, Lincoln’s Inn; member, Technology & Construction Bar Association [TECBAR]; member, Commercial Bar Association [COMBAR]; member, Society of Construction Law; Recorder [Midlands Circuit].
Mr Mohammed Khamisa QC
Chairman (Middle Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP; Recorder, Crown Court / County Court [Fee Paid]; Chairman, Code Adjudication Panel of Phone Services Authority [PSA] [Fee Paid]; Deemster [Part time Judge of High Court of Isle of Man] [Fee Paid]; Adviser, Dil Trust Charity [Pro Bono]; British Pakistan Foundation Charity [Pro Bono].
Mrs Kathryn King
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Graduate research student, Magdalen College Oxford; Graduate interviewer, Magdalen College Oxford; Lay panel member, General Optical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel; board member, Office for Students.
Mr Edward Levey MA (Cantab); BCL
Barrister (Inner Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed barrister; member, Commercial Bar Association [COMBAR]; member, London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association [LCLCBA]; member, Bar Pro Bono Unit.
Ms Claire Lindley [ICC Vice-Chair]
Barrister
ICC
Employed barrister of the Crown Prosecution Service; Bencher, Gray’s Inn; member, Scholarship Committee and Pension, Gray’s Inn
Mr John Lloyd-Jones QC
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; member, Inner Temple; member, Criminal Bar Association; member, Midland Circuit; member South Eastern Circuit; member, Old Etonian Association; member, Coldstream Guards Association. member, BASC.
Mr Paul Lowenstein QC
Chairman (Middle Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed barrister; member, Investment Committee of the Harbour Litigation Funding; chairman, Trustees of the International Law Book Facility; Master of the Bench, Middle Temple; member, Commercial Bar Association [COMBAR]; member, London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; member, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association; member, Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Mr John Lyon CB, MA, FRSA.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Elected member, Council of the National Trust and Somerset Community Foundation.
Mr James McClelland
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Practising Barrister; member, Executive Committee of the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk.
Ms Stephanie McIntosh
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Parole Board of England and Wales [employment]; Non-executive Director, Costs Lawyers Standards Board; Member, Judicial Appointments Commission [appointment].
Mr Jonathan Monk
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Interim Manager, public sector – 33 Pheasants Consulting Limited; Trustee, 9 Lives Furniture Charity.
Mr Paul Ozin QC
Chairman (QC)
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, 23 Essex Street Chambers; member, Middle Temple; member, Lexis Nexis Corporate Crime Lawyers Consulting Editorial Board;Trustee, Freebar; Vice-Chair and Chair of Seminar Committee, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; member, Fraud Lawyers Association; member, South Eastern Circuit; member, various Bar Messes; Team Leader, 23 Essex Street Chambers Regulatory and Disciplinary practice team; Co-Chair, 23 Essex Street Chambers Complaints Committee; member, Labour Party;
Mr Leon Pickering MA, MPhil, PgDL, BVC.
Barrister (Barrister)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self employed barrister, 10 Old Square Chambers; member, Chancery Bar Association; member and Advocacy Tutor, Lincoln’s Inn; professional committee member, Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council; panel member, Rugby Football Union Independent Judiciary; member, Charity Law Association; member, Court of Protection Practitioners Association.
Dr Angela Pober Ph.D (King's College London), MBA, BSc
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Director of Kinzere Ltd; Trustee, Galahad Trust [environmental charity]
Mr Nigel Poole QC BA (Oxon), Diploma in Law
Chairman (Middle Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed barrister;fee paid judicial post as Deputy High Court Judge; Head of Chambers; member, Personal Injury Bar Association; member, Professional Negligence Bar Association; member, Middle Temple.
Ms Lakshmi Ramakrishnan
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay Member, Investigations Committee for ARB [Architect’s Registration Board]; Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Chair, Audit Registration Committee [Institute of Chartered Accountants]; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Chair, Investigations Committee, Nursery and Midwifery Council [from April 2020].
Mr Paul Robb
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Senior Security Advisor Restrata, Dubai; Lead Auditor, IQ Verify.
Ms Zoe Saunders
Barrister (Gray's Inn)
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Family Law Bar Association; Member, Resolution; Member, Western and South Eastern Circuits; Member, Professional Negligence Bar Association; Bencher, Gray’s Inn.
Mr Ashley Serr
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; Legal Advisor, General Dental Council’s Fitness to Practise Tribunal; Member, Health Care Professions Council Fitness to Practise Tribunal; Court Examiner, Ministry of Justice; Member, Employment Lawyers Association; Member, Middle Temple.
Mr Darren Snow LLB [Hons], LL.M [City], MCIArb Accredited Meditor
Barrister (Middle Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Bar Pro Bono Unit; Panel Member, Essex Youth Offending Service; School Mentor, Citizen Foundation Mock Trial Competition; Member, Middle Temple; Member, Criminal Bar Association.
Ms Deborah Spring BA (Hons) (Cantab), MA (London)
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Chartered Secretary; publishing consultant, Justice of the Peace; family member connections to Doughty Street chambers and Temple Garden chambers; lay member, Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service.
Mr Alan Steinfeld QC
Chairman (Lincoln's Inn)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed barrister; member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Commercial Bar Association [COMBAR].
Miss Catherine Taskis MA (Oxon), BCL
Barrister (Inner Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed barrister; Deputy District Judge, South Eastern Circuit; part-time administrative assistant, Cleveland Scott York (Patent and Trademark Attorneys); member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Property Bar Association; member, Agricultural Law Association; member, Vesta Rowing Club; governor, Silchester Church of England Primary School; fellow, Chartered Institue of Arbitrators.
Mrs Alison Thorne SRN
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay member, Teaching Regulation Agency; State Registered Nurse; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts; formerly independent member (non-executive director), Ministry of Defence Service Complaints Panel; lay member, Health and Care Professions Council.
Mr John Vaughan
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay Member; Retired Executive Director, NHS Foundation Trust; Director of Strategy and Partnerships [interim], Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Special Advisor and Executive Reviewer, Care Quality Commission [CQC]; Education Associate, General Dental Council [GDC]; Independent Panel Member, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime [MOPAC]; Lay Member, General Optical Council [GOC].
Mr John Walsh
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Self employed HR Consultant; Lay Member, Employment Tribunals [ET]; Lay Examiner, Royal College of Surgeons of England and Wales [RCS]; Lay Partner, Health and Care Professions Council [HCPC]; Lay Member [Reserve] Statutory Committees: General Pharmaceutical Council [GPHC]; Lay Member, Insolvency Licensing Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales [ICAEW]; Lay Chair/Adjudicator, Social Work England; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development [FCIPD]; member, Employment Tribunals Membership Association London Central [ETMALC]; member, National Landlords Association [NLA].
Mr Robert Walton QC MA Hons
Chairman (Lincoln's Inn)
Disciplinary / ICC / SAB
Self-employed barrister; volunteer, Planning Aid for London; member, Compulsory Purchase Association; member, Planning and Environment Bar Association [PEBA].
Mr Andrew Ward
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Panel member, Employment Tribunal Service [Scotland]; Invigilator. Sunderland College; Retired Police Sergeant, Durham Constabulary; Director / Management and Training Consultant, AMW Professional Ltd; Director / Trustee, National Appropriate Adult Network; Retired member, Police Federation of England and Wales.
Miss Isabelle Watson
Barrister (Middle Temple)
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Family Bar Association.
Mr Jeremy Weston QC
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Practising Barrister, Family Law; Head of Chambers, St Ives Chambers Birmingham; Chair, West Midlands Family Bar Association; member, Family Bar Association; member, Association of Lawyers for Children; member, Midland Circuit; independent member Parole Board; Recorder appointed in 2018 sitting in the Family Court.
Mr Colin Wilby ICC Lay Vice-Chair, BA (Hons), MBA, FCIPD
Lay
ICC
Chair, West Kent Housing Association; Lay Council Member, Council for Licensed Conveyancers; Lay Member, Employment Tribunals; Non-Executive Director, Taxation Disciplinary Board; Lay Member, Financial Reporting Council; Independent Panel Member, Need to Sell Scheme, HS2 Ltd; Fellow, Chartered Institution of Personnel & Development.
Mr Thomas Williams
Barrister (Lincoln's Inn)
Disciplinary / ICC
Employed barrister; Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Member, Young International Arbitration Group.
Ms Heather Williams QC
Chairman (Gray's Inn)
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister in private practice; Chair, Legal Aid Agency’s Special Controls Review Panel, appointed and paid by the Ministry of Justice; Member, Liberty; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association [ALBA]; Member, Industrial Law Society; Member, The Coroner’s Society; Member, Discrimination Law Association; Member, Police Actions Lawyers’ Group; Member INQUEST and the INQUEST Lawyer’s Group; Member, Justice; Recorder [Crime – Northern Circuit and Civil]; Appointed Deputy High Court Judge.
Miss Sadia Zouq
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn; Legal Assessor, Social Work England; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, General Pharmaceutical Council; lay panel member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; chair, Health Care and Professions Tribunal Service, member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers [ARDL].