Judicial, barrister and lay panel members are nominated by the President of the Council of the Inns of Court to sit on disciplinary tribunals and other panels.
Barrister and lay panel members are appointed by the President of COIC on the recommendation of the Tribunal Appointments Body, following open competition. The requirements around the BTAS recruitment process are set out in the Appointments Protocol and the BTAS Recruitment and Selection Policy. Panellists are appointed against agreed competencies designed to identify individuals who will approach their work with integrity and objectivity and who will produce well-reasoned and fair decisions. The competencies used in the most recent recruitment process were:
COIC Disciplinary Pool competencies:
COIC Clerk competencies:
Training for panellists is also based on these competencies. This provides an objective and role-linked means of identifying the training and development needs of panel members and focuses on developing the desired performance characteristics.
The performance of the individual panellists is appraised regularly against the following core competences:
For further details please see the BTAS Performance and Appraisal Policy.
There is currently a pool of 72 lay (people who are not from the legal profession) and barrister panel members. Both lay and barrister panel members are wholly independent of the Bar Council and the Bar Standards Board.
The list below shows, in alphabetical order, the details of the barrister and lay members who have been appointed by the President of the Council of the Inns to sit on disciplinary tribunals and other panels and their declaration of interests.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member of Lincoln’s Inn; Criminal Justice Adviser, Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office; Legally Qualified Chair, Medical Practitioners and Tribunal Service; Attorney-At-Law, St Lucia; Solicitor & Barrister; St Vincent & the Grenadines; Mediator.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister, Inner Temple; member, Wales and Chester Circuit; member, Health and Safety Lawyers Association.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member of Inner Temple; Deputy District Judge, Civil, North Eastern Circuit; Recorder, Civil, North Eastern Circuit; member, Personal Injury Bar Association; member, Leeds and West Riding Medico-Legal Society.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Practising Barrister, Thomas More Chambers; Bencher, Inner Temple; Legally Qualified Chair, Code Adjudication Panel, Phone-Paid Authority; member, South Eastern Circuit; member London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association; member, Black Barristers Network.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Retired Police Officer; member and chair, Discipline Committee of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons [2015-2023]; chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the City of Cardiff [2014-2023]; Associate, College of Policing [2012-2023]; Director, Myrmidon Consultancy Services [provision of advice and expert witness services to the Home Office, Courts, Inquest and Public Inquiries,
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister, Middle Temple; member, Northern Circuit; member, Personal Injury Bar Association.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay Member, Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service; Panel Chair, Judicial Appointments Commission; Pension Fund Trustee, the Central and Cecil Housing Trust Pension Fund; Fellow, Royal Chartered Institute of Housing; volunteer vaccinator, St John’s Ambulance.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister; member, Lincoln’s Inn; member, COMBAR.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Associate Inspector, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Service; Associate, College of Policing; Associate, London Policing College; Short Term Expert, Northern Ireland Cooperation Division.
Barrister
Disciplinary
Director, International Bar Association; member, Human Rights Lawyers Association.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister of Middle Temple; Mediator, Promedite [UK] Ltd.; Deputy District Judge, Northern Circuit; member, Association of Fee Paid Judges; member, Law Society Council Civil Justice Committee.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Osteopath; Professional Regulation Adjudicator; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Committee Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Committee Social Work England; Registrant Panel Member, Professional Conduct Committee General Osteopathic Council; Consultant Lecturer, Professional Standards; member, Royal Society of Medicine; member, General Osteopathic Council; member, Amnesty International;
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member of Inner Temple; Governer and Chair, Tiverton Primary School; member, FLBA; member, Midland Circuit, member, Labour Party.
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, Inner Temple; Joint Head, Cornerstone Chambers; Deputy Commissary, Public Notaries; Vice-Chair, Planning and Environment Bar Association [PEBA]; Governing Bencher, Inner Temple; member, Inner Temple Scholarships and Outreach Committee; Mentor, Inner Temple Mentoring Scheme; member, Administrative and Constitutional Law Bar Association [ALBA]; member, Marylebone Cricket Club [MCC]
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; member, Inner Temple; member, CBA.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Independent Panel Member, Police Misconduct Hearing Panel, Northamptonshire Police; Lay Member, Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Magistrate, North London Local Justice Area at Highbury Magistrates’ Court; former registrant member, General Osteopathic Council Investigating Committee
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; Part-time Tribunal Chair; Casework Supervisor, Enforcement Division, Financial Reporting Council; Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal; Door Tenant, member, Gray’s Inn; member, Seldon Society; member, Liberty; member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers, member, Financial Services Lawyers Association; member, Association of Women Barristers.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Self employed Barrister practising from Twenty Essex; member, LCLCBA committee; member, Combar Executive; member, Combar Equality and Diversity Committee; member, Twenty Essex pupillage committee; member, Advocate and FRU; Trustee, Eric F Sparkes Charitable Trust; Director, 12/13 Mecklenburgh Square RTM Co. Ltd.; member, Combar, LCLCBA, member, Bar European Group; member, Competition Law Association; member, Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association; member, Young International Arbitrators Group; LMAA Supporting Member; member, South Eastern Circuit; member, International Bar Association, Lincoln’s Inn; volunteer Supervisor and Assessor, Duke of Edinburgh Award.
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Chair, Inns Conduct Committee; Barrister, Mediator and Arbitrator; member, Middle Temple; Chancellor, St Albans Diocese [Church of England; Chancellor of Diocese of York [Church of England]; Chair, Clergy Discipline |Panels; Legally Qualified Chair, Eastern Regions Police Disciplinary Panels; 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, National Association of Legally Qualified Chairs.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Employed Barrister, Unit Head, Serious Economic and Organised Crime and International Directorate, CPS.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Retired Detective Superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland [PSNI]; Independent member of the Parole Board for England and Wales
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Employed Barrister; Head of RSPCA Prosecutions; Member, Inner Temple.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister and Academic; Teaching Officer in Law, Robinson College, Cambridge; Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge; Ad hoc paid activities for University; Civilian volunteer, City of London Police’s Mounted Section; Member, Criminal Bar Association; Member, Socio Legal Studies Association; Member, Society of Legal Scholars; Member, Lincoln’s Inn; Ad-eundum member, Inner Temple [member of Outreach Committee].
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister, Inner Temple; Law Tutor, BPP University; member,. Chancery Bar Association; member, Resolve Berkshire & Oxfordshire Mediation Service.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Self-employed Consultant; housing member, Scottish 1st Tier Property Tribunal; Subject Matter Expert, Metropolitan Police; lay member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; board member, Case Vale Community Housing; chair, Women in Social Housing [West Midlands]; member, Chartered Institute of Housing Professional Standards Committee.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister; member, Gray’s Inn; Disciplinary panel member, London FA; occasional panel member, MCC Disciplinary panel; member, Young Fraud Lawyers Association; member, Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum; member, Criminal Bar Association; member LawInSport Plus; member, In and Out Club.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister, Middle Temple; registered volunteer, Advocate; member, Criminal Bar Association; member, Family Law Bar Association.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister and Academic; Counsel, Hackett & Dabbs LLP; Special Adviser, House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee; Special Adviser, United Nations Development Programme [Pacific Region]; Visiting Professor, Durham University; Associate Member, Cornerstone Barristers; member, Administrative Law Association, member, Lansdowne Club.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member, Middle Temple; MPTS, fee paid associate role of legal chair and legal assessor for the medical tribunal; General Optical Council, fee paid associate role of legal chair and legal assessor to the fitness to practise committee.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; Fee Paid Judge, First Tier Tribunal; Assistant Coroner and Assistant Registrar, General Medical Council; Founder and lead, The Women in Gowns [WIGs] Project; Door Tenant, Staple Inn Chambers; member, Middle Temple.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member, Gray’s Inn; Fee-paid Specialist Member, First-tire Tribunal, General Regulatory Chamber [Immigration Services Jurisdiction]; Legal Contractor, Freedom From Torture; member, Immigration Legal Practitioners Association; member, Anti-Trafficking Legal Project; member, Administrative Law Bar Association; member, Association of Women Barristers.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister, member, Inner Temple; panel member, The FA [Safeguarding Panel]; member, UK Environmental Law Association; member, Criminal Bar Association; member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
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.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; member, Middle Temple; Fitness to Practise Partner and Legal Adviser, Social Work England; member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; Teaching Associate, Queen Mary University London; Consultant question writer for BSB Civil Litigation examination paper; member, COMBAR; member LCLCBA; member Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association;
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Member, Parole Board of England and Wales [employment]; Non-executive Director, Costs Lawyers Standards Board; Member, Judicial Appointments Commission [appointment]; member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons [appointment].
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; member, Gray’s Inn; Recorder [Civil]; member, Personal Injuries Bar Association; member, Professional Negligence Bar Association.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister; member, Gray’s Inn; volunteer, Advocate; member, Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Specialist Strategic Project Manager, Social Worker, North East Lincolnshire Council; Presiding Officer; Adjudication Panel Member, Social Work England; Safeguarding Lay Panel Member, English Cricket Board; member, Social Work England; fellow, Association of Project Management; member, Institute of Energy.
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member Middle Temple; member, COMBAR; member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Society for Computers and Law;
Chairman (KC)
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member 23 Essex Street Chambers and door tenant at Deans Court Chambers; member, Middle Temple; member, Lexis Nexis Corporate Crime Lawyers Consulting Editorial Board; member, Freebar; committee member and former chair, 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; member, Labour Party.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member Gray’s Inn; Trustee, Egypt Exploration Society; volunteer, Advocate; volunteer, Social Mobility Fund; member, South Eastern Circuit; member, Commercial Bar Association; member, Chancery Bar Association; member, Financial Services Lawyers Association; member, Young Fraud Lawyers Association; member, Young International Arbitration Group; member, Commonwealth in England Barristers Association.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Lay Member, Investigations Committee for ARB [Architect’s Registration Board]; Chair, Audit Registration Committee [Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales]; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives Regulation [CILEx]; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Chair, Investigations Committee, Nursery and Midwifery Council; member, Adjudication Panel, Landscape Institute.
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Barrister; member, Gray’s Inn; member, Advocate; member, Young Bar Advocate Committee; member, ALBA; member, ARDL; member, ELA; member, ELBA; member, UKELA.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Employed Barrister with the Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery; Recorder (Crime); member, Lincoln’s Inn.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister (Clerk)
Disciplinary
Self employed barrister; member, 6 KBW; member, CPS Advocate Panels Grade 3; General Crime, Serious Crime, Proceeds of Crime, and Fraud; member, Serious Fraud Office Counsel Panels Level C, Prosecution, Proceeds of Crime; marker, BSB centrally set ethics exams; member, South Eastern Circuit; member, Criminal Bar Association;’ member, Seldon Society; member, Pupillage Committee, 6KBW.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; Fee Paid Employment Judge; Recorder; member, Employment Lawyers Association.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member Lincoln’s Inn; Deputy District Judge, Northern Circuit; member, Northern Circuit of the Bar; member, Personal Injuries Bar Association; member, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member Inner Temple; Trustee, Holbeach Children’s Club; Vice Chair, Governors Eden Park High School; member, Criminal Bar Association; member, South Eastern Circuit; Fellow, RSA,
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Resolution Consultant, TCM Group; lay panel member, Fitness to Practice Nursing and Midwifery Fitness to Practice Committee; lay panel member, British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists; Trustee, Aplastic Anaemia Trust, member, Sussex and Surrey Advisory Committee [magistrates recruitment]; volunteer, Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Dental Surgeon; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Leeds University; Revalidation Reviewer, General Pharmaceutical Council; External Examiner, Royal College of Surgeons / College of General Dentistry; Fellow, College of General Dentistry; Registered, General Dental Council; membership, MDDUS.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, Middle Temple; Associate Tenant (25 Bedford Row Chambers); Member of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA), Women in Criminal Law, the South-Eastern Circuit, Advocate; Accredited Advocacy Trainer (Middle Temple), Visiting Lecturer at The Inns of Court College of Advocacy (ICCA).
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Independent Panel Member, Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime [MOPAC]; Lay Member, General Optical Council [GOC].
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Panel member, Employment Tribunal Service [Scotland]; Invigilator, Education Partnership North East; 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; lay panel member, Health Care Professionals Tribunal Service; Associate Consultant Group Training and Advisory Specialist, Police Federation of England and Wales; Consultant Regional Co-ordinator, Police Money Matters / St James Place.
Lay
Disciplinary / ICC
Education and Professional and Transformational Coach; Teacher Panellist, Teaching Regulation Agency; Independent panel member, Northants Police Misconduct Hearings; Chair, Panellist Representative Group TRA; Independent Listener, St Clare’s College Oxford; affiliate member, European Mentoring and Coaching Council.
Chairman
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, member Gray’s Inn; member, London Commercial & Common Law Bar Association; member, Royal Automobile Association; member, Pontypool Rugby Club; member, Glamorgan County Cricket Club
Barrister
Disciplinary
Self employed barrister; Legally Qualified Chair, HCPC Tribunal; member, Bar Liaison Committee Inner Temple; member, Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry [BACFI]; member, Family Law Bar Association; Legally Qualified Chair. Taxation Disciplinary Board.
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister, Lincoln’s Inn; member, Personal Injury Bar Association; member, Northern Circuit
Barrister
Disciplinary / ICC
Barrister; Fee Paid Judge, First Tier Tribunal; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, General Pharmaceutical Council; panel chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; panel chair, Health Care and Professions Council Tribunal Service; ; lay panel member, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; Legally Qualified Chair, Architects Registration Board’s Professional Conduct Committee; member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers [ARDL]; member, Lincoln’s Inn; Legally Qualified Chair, Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service;