Who makes the decisions?

A

Mrs Sirah Abraham

LLB (Hons)

Lay  

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Justice Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).

Professor Marios Adamou

MD, MA, MSc, LLM, MBA, PGCE, PGCert (Public Health), PGCert (Philosophy), PhD, IRMCert, FRCPsych, Hon FFOM, FHEA, FMLM, FRSPH, CMgr FCMI, CDir FIoD

Registrant  

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Psychiatrist, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Non-Executive Director, NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board.

Mrs Fareth Ahmed

BA (Hons)

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2023; Litigation Manager, Home Office.

Dr Iftikhar Ahmed

MA (Medical Ethics & Law), MBBS, MCPS, FCPS, FCARCSI, FRCA, MSc (Healthcare Leadership)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Anaesthetist, Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Former Consultant Anaesthetist, Hull & East Yorkshire NHS Trust (2009 – 2015); Member, Obstetric Anaesthetists’ Association; Member, Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland.

Mrs Remi (Oluremi) Alabi

LLB (Law)

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Crown Prosecuting Solicitor, Crown Prosecution Service; Panel Member, Teachers Regulatory Agency; Member, The Law Society.

Professor John (Juan) Alcolado

DM, BM (Hons), FRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2015; Medical Examiner, NHS Wales Shared Services; Consultant Physician, Royal Derby Hospital; Interim Dean, Medical Education, Aston Medical School; Deputy Head, Aston Medical School; Former Head of Division, Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine; Former Executive Dean, Faculty of Medicine & Life Sciences, University of Chester (2020 – 2023); Former Deputy Head, School of Medicine, Nottingham University School of Medicine; Former Head, Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham.

Mrs Jillian Alderwick

BA (Hons), MSc

Lay  

Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Member, Appeals Board, Ministry of Defence (MOD); Substantive career in NHS Public Health and General Management; Lay member for a variety of regulatory bodies.

Dr Fatima Ali

BSc, MBBS, MRCGP, DRCOG, PGCert

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; General Practitioner, Leach Heath Medical Centre; Former Committee Member, British Medical Association Junior Members’ Forum, 2022-2023; Former Trainee General Practitioner, Birmingham, 2021-2024; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Ms Sally Allbeury

BA (Hons) 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Financial Ombudsman, Service Parole Board of England and Wales, Nursing and Midwifery Council. 

Mrs Nasreen Anderson

BA (Hons) (Anthropology & Law), PG Dip (Legal Practice), Roll of Solicitors (2009)

Lay  

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Associate, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA); Lay Representative, NHS Education for Scotland; Working Official (Judge), Boxing Scotland; Coach, Lochend Boxing Club; Former Case Manager and Lawyer, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Former Lay Panel Member, General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS); Former Legal Officer, The Royal College of Nursing (RCN); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).

Ms Kate Annand (Rhodes)

LLB, MA, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Self-Employed Barrister, Doughty Street Chambers; Fee-Paid Employment Tribunal Judge, Ministry of Justice; Member, Employment Lawyers Association. 

Ms Jenny Appleton

LLB, Bar Vocational Diploma, QLTS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health and Care Standards); Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Health and Care Professions Council; Former Legal Adviser, HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS); Former Trustee, UK-Med; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).

Mrs Catherine Audcent

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber (SEND); Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Social Work England; Lay Chair, Disciplinary Committee, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).

B

Dr Shri (Srinivasarao) Babarao

MBBS, MD (Paed), DCH, MSc, FRCPCH, PGCME, PGCML

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Neonatologist, Liverpool Neonatal Partnership, Liverpool Women’s Hospital & Alder Hey Children’s Hospital; Chair, Specialty Trainee Assessment of Readiness for Tenure (START) Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Independent Neonatal Care Reviewer, Maternity Investigations, Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust; Assessor, RCPCH START, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH); Examiner (Membership Exam), RCPCH; PLAB-2 Examiner, GMC; Neonatal Subject Matter Advisor, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB); Freedom-To-Speak-Up Guardian, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Appraiser, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust; Appointments Advisory Committee (AAC), RCPCH; Course Director & Instructor, Newborn Life Support (NLS), Resuscitation Council; Instructor, Generic Instructor Course (GIC), Resuscitation Council; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO); Member, Certificate of Eligibility to the Specialist Register (CESR) Committee, RCPCH; Member, TQB (Training & Quality Board), RCPCH.

Dr Marta Babores (Babores Raset)

LMS, MRCP, FRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Physician, East Cheshire NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, British Thoracic Society; Member, British Medical Association.

Mrs Natalie Banks

BA (Law), MSc, Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Panel Chair, The Parole Board; Panel Chair, The Nursing and Midwifery Council; Qualified Solicitor, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Mrs Fiona Barnett

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Solicitor; Independent Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Independent Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Independent Legal Assessor, Association for Chartered Certified Accountants; Independent Legal Assessor, Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors; Former External Clerk, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Former Crown Prosecutor, Senior Crown Prosecutor and Divisional Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, West Yorkshire; Former Associate Solicitor, Walker Morris Solicitors, Leeds; Former External Clerk, Architects Registration Board; Former Tribunal Member, GMC and MPTS (2006-2017); Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2014-2017); Former Legally Qualified Chair, MPTS (2015-2017); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers. 

Dr Richard Bateman

MBChB, DMCC, FCARCSI, AFICM, FCMI

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant in Cardiac Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, University Hospitals Bristol, NHS Foundation Trust; Member, Royal Naval Reserve.

Miss Gill (Gillian) Batts KC

LLB (Law), BVC

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Self-Employed Barrister, Park Square Barristers; Former Member, New Park Court Chambers until 2012.

Dr John Baxendale

MBChB, FRCEM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Emergency Medicine Consultant, Northern Care Alliance; Medical Examiner, Tameside General Hospital; Life Support Courses Instructor, 2222 Training LTD.

Dr Neal Beckett

MB, BCh, BAO, FFR RCSI, MPhil, MA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Anaesthetist, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust since 2004; Member, Victims’ Payments Board, Northern Ireland since 2023; Former Consultant Anaesthetist, Lagan Valley Hospital, 2003-2004; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Northern Ireland Ethics Forum.

Dr Jennifer Bedford

MB ChB, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Stanhope Mews West Surgery, London; Performance Lead, NWL; Performance Lead, London Central and West Unscheduled Care Collaborative; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Dr Jill Belch OBE

MBChB, MD (Hons), FRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Professor, University of Dundee; Member, Advisory and Speakers Boards, Amgen & Bayer Pharmaceutical Companies; Clinical Trail PI/adjudicator, Rexgenero; Trustee of Health-related charity, Scottish Heart and Arterial Risk Prevention (SHARP); Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh; Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences.

Dr Juliet Bennett

MBChB, MRCGP (Distinction), DRCOG, DFSRH, PGCME

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, The Meadows Medical Practice; GP Appraiser, Appraisal and Revalidation Team, NHS England Midlands (Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire); Former Salaried GP roles, Shropshire (2003-2011); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare.

Miss Rachel Birks

LLB (Hons), Dip (Legal Practice), Dip (Management)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Partner, Ward Hadaway Law Firm; Chair, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Governor, Parrs Wood High School; Former Trustee, Greater Manchester Learning Trust; Former Volunteer, Quality and Assurance Team, St Johns Ambulance (2018-2019); Former Employee and Director, Fieldfisher LLP (2007-2016); Former employee, General Medical Council (2003-2007); Former employee, Berrymans Lace Mawer (1998-2003); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Women in the Law UK.

Mrs Ann Bishop

LLB (First Class Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Solicitor (1980-2010). 

Mr Simon Bond

LLB (Hons), LLM, FCIArb

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Director, Bond Legal Ltd; Associate Consultant, Ibex Gale Ltd; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; Former Partner, Higgs & Sons solicitors; Member, Law Society, England and Wales; Member, Employment Lawyers Association; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Mrs Emma Boothroyd

LLB, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Non-Practising Barrister; Solicitor;  Financial Ombudsman; Case Examiner, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Independent Complaints Assessor, Phone Paid Services Authority; Legally Qualified Chair, Conduct Competence Committee, Architects Registration Board; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Wales; Former Investigating Committee Member, General Medical Council; Former Chair, Fitness to Practice Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority.

Dr Candida Borsada

BSc, MBChB

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2015; Medically Qualified Panel Member, Social Security and Child Support, HM Court Tribunal Service (HMCTS); Regional Medical Appraiser, Social Security and Child Support Registrar, HMCTS; Former Emergency Medicine Registrar, University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. 

Dr Ronan Brennan

MBBCh, FRCPsych

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2011; Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Medical Protection Society. 

Dr Deborah Brooke

MRCGP, MRCPsych, MPhil, MD

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Appraisal Lead, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Former Psychiatrist, Practitioner Health Programme; Former Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2016); Former Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry (1994-1996); Former Senior Registrar, St George's Hospital (1990-1993); Former Psychiatric Registrar, Maudsley Hospital (1987-1990); Former Medical Examiner and Supervisor, General Medical Council; Nottingham Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice (1982-1987); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

Mr Philip Brown

BA, MA, CiLCA

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Committee Member, Dental Professionals Hearing Service since 2013; Lay Chair, Dental Professionals Hearing Service since 2015; Part-time Aerodrome Flight Information Services Officer, Shobdon Airfield since 2009; Acting Manager, Air Traffic Services Unit, Shobdon Airfield; Former Education Associate, General Medical Council (2003-2013); Former Education Inspector, General Dental Council (2012-2018); Former Academic Registrar, St George’s, University of London (1991-2004).

Dr Frances Burnett

MBChB, BSc, MD, FRCPsych

Medical

Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist, Clinical Director and Associate Medical Director, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (1999-2016); Former Elected Member, Eastern Division Executive Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2013-2016); Former Elected Member, General Adult Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2006-2012).

Dr Hazel Busby-Earle

DDS, MBBS, MRCS (Eng), FRCS (OMFS) (Eng), FFD (OSOM) (RCSI)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; PLAB examiner, General Medical Council since 2018; Clinical Director, Musculoskeletal and Specialist Services; Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, University Hospitals of Leicester, NHS Trust; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland; Fellow, British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Women in Surgery (WINS); Member, Oral Surgery Club of Great Britain; Member, Medical Advisory Committee, Spire Leicester Hospital.

C

Dr Alison Calver

MA (Cantab), MBBS, MD, FBCS, FRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Cardiologist, University Hospital Southampton; Former Chair, Specialist Advisory Committee in Cardiology; Former Trustee, British Cardiovascular Society; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, British Cardiovascular Society; Member, British Cardiovascular Intervention Society.

Mr Richard Campbell

LLB (Hons), LLM, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, Self-Employed; Deputy District Judge, South-Eastern Circuit; Member, Personal Injuries Bar Association; Member, The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.

Mr Colin Chapman

LLB, Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration & Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal, Ministry of Justice; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Security and Child Support.

Mr Stephen Chappell

LLB (Hons), Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Tribunal Member, 2023-25; Consultant, Bar Standards Board; Board Member, Valuation Tribunal Service; Lay Panel Member, Primary Care Appeals Service; Lay Panel Member, Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee and Nominated Committee Member; Lay Panel Member, Teaching Regulation Agency; Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS East Midlands (2013-2015); Former Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels (Legally Qualified Advisor Police Misconduct Panels); Member, Law Society.

Dr Rehanna Chaudhary

MB ChB, DFSRH, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP, South Yorkshire Area since 2014; GP Appraiser, NHS England, North East and Yorkshire since 2021; Local Medical Committee Member, Doncaster since 2021; GP Mentor, Doncaster Local Medical Committee since 2021; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunals, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2021; GP Mentor, South Yorkshire Supporting Mentors Scheme since 2023; Justice of the Peace, Family Court since 2020; Member, Magistrates Recruitment Advisory Committee since 2021; Former Race Equality Lead, South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce Training Hub (Mar 2022 – Dec 2022); Former Medicolegal Expert, Soft Tissue Injuries Medco (2019 – 2022); Former PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council (2022 – 2023); Diplomate, Faculty Sexual and Reproductive Health; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Kamran Choudhry

LLB, MPhil (Criminology), LLM, BVC, Bar of England & Wales, New York Bar, Bar of Republic of Ireland

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Trial Lawyer, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Professor Stephen Clark

BMedSci, BM BS, DM, DLM, FFST, FRCP, FRCS

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle; Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Northumbria; Magistrate, North Northumberland Criminal Court; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Surgeons of England; Member, European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery; Member, European Society of Cardiology.

Mr Andrew Clemes 

MA (Hons) (Oxon)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister at Law since 1984; Lay Panelist, General Dental Council (GDC) since 2021; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Wales since 2020, North East of England since 2020, East of England since 2019; Associate Tenant, Angel Chambers, Swansea; Independent Member, Service Complaints Panel, Ministry of Defence (MOD) since 2018; Tribunal Judge, Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Tribunal, HM Courts and Tribunals Service since 2018; Legal Assessor, General Pharmaceutical Council since 2018; Tribunal Judge, Asylum and Immigration Chamber since 2014; Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Editor and Marker, National Association of Paralegals; Former Associate Professor, Swansea University; Former Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Former Chief Examiner, Criminal Litigation, Bar Standards Board; Member, The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn.

Mr Robert Cline

MA (Cantab)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, St John’s Buildings Chambers; Fee-Paid Judge, Mental Health Tribunal and Employment Tribunal, Ministry of Justice.

Dr Andy (Andrew) Cohen

MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), FFICM

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Caroline Colaco

MBChB, BSc (Hons), DFSRH, ECFMG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional GP, Greater Manchester Area since 2016; Member, The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Royal College of General Practitioners (2016-2021).

Mr Ian Comfort

QTS, BA (Maths), PG Dip (Law), PG Dip (Professional Legal Skills), LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission; Chair, Investigation and Registration Appeal Committees; Chair, Health and Care Profession Tribunal Service; Chair, Cognus Ltd; Magistrate and Presiding Justice, West London Local Justice Area; Member, Investigating Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development; Barrister Member, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; Fellow, Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

Ms Bronwen Cooper 

BA (Applied Social Studies), Cert Qual (Social Work)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Social Worker Adjudicator, Social Work England since 2019; Independent Author and Consultant in Social Care; Lead Reviewer, Multi-Agency Serious Case Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews; Member, British Association of Social Workers (BASW).

Ms Melissa Coutino

BA (Hons), PG Dip (Law), Degree of the Utter Bar, MSc, PG Dip (Leadership), PPM Practitioner

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister; Senior Lawyer, Government Legal Department; Legal Assessor, Health & Care Professions Tribunal; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Non-Executive Director, Windsor Fellowship, Inns Council of Law Reporting, British Cardiovascular Society; Bencher, Lincolns Inn; Vice-President, Women Barrister Association; Former Legal Adviser, Commission on Human Medicine (CHM); Former Legal Adviser, Herbal Medicine Advisory Committee (HMAC); Former Legal Adviser, Advisory Board on the Registration of Homeopathic Products (ABRHP); Former Senior Lawyer, Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Authority (MHRA); Member, Bar Council. 

Mr Patrick Cox

Dip (Professional Legal Studies) (Belfast)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; BCL Solicitor; Director, PC Legal Costs Ltd; Solicitor, Northern Ireland since 1989; Solicitor, England and Wales since 1990; Member, Law Society Criminal Litigation Accreditation Scheme since 2001; Awarded Higher Rights in the criminal courts, Law Society (2005).  

Dr Ian Crighton 

MB Chb, FRCS (ENG), FRCS (GEN)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Fee Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Former Consultant Surgeon, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay (2001 – 2023); Former Consultant Surgeon, City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust (1996 – 2001); Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Emily Crosse 

BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), DFSRH, DRCOG, MRCGP, PGCME, FHEA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Warwick Medical School; GP, Taurus Healthcare; Medical Member, SEC, Ministry of Justice; Former GP, Hau Green Health; Former GP, Granton Medical Centre; Former role, South Worcester VTS Training (2010 – 2014); Former Role, Birmingham Women’s Hospital; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Mr Vince Cullen 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Independent Panel Member, Police Misconduct Hearing Panel, Northamptonshire Police; Lay Member, The Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Magistrate, North London Local Justice Area, Highbury Magistrates’ Court; Former Registrant Member, General Osteopathic Council Investigating Committee; Former Registration Assessor and Education Visitor, General Osteopathic Council; Former Education Visitor, Mott MacDonald; Former Education Visitor, General Chiropractic Council. 

Mrs Ruth Curtis (Sloan)

LLB, PGCE

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022.

D

Dr Muhammad Dadibhai

MB ChB, MRCS, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Director, Eightlands Surgery; Clinical Advisor for Diabetes, Community Care and Medicine Management, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; GP Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Treasurer, Kirklees LMC; Former GP Principal, Brisbane, QLD Australia; Former Locum GP, West Yorkshire (2008-2010).

Mr Neil Dalton

BA (Hons), Cert (Operational Management)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels, Eastern, North-Eastern and East-Midlands Regions; Legally Qualified Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Committee Member, NALQC.

Ms Sian Darlington

LLB(Hons), LLM, PGDip

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Partner, Gunnercooke LLP; Deputy District Judge.

Ms Liz (Elizabeth) Daughters 

BA (Hons), CPID (Assoc)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Appeals Committee, Women's Equality Party; Former Local Government Manager.

Dr Bryn Davies 

BSc, MBChB, MRCGP, FRCOphth

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Ophthalmologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; General Practitioner, West Yorkshire; Director, Bryn Davies Limited; Director, Clinicare Health Support Services; Fellow, Royal College of Ophthalmologists; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Gareth Davies 

BSc (Hons), CeFa, DipFa

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2012; Tribunal Member since 2011.

Dr Jonathan Davies

MBBS, FRCS, FRCS (Ed)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Former Member, Working Party, Provision of Vascular Services, Vascular Society, Great Britain and Ireland; Member and Fellow, The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSEng); Member and Fellow, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RSCEd); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Vascular Society for Great Britain and Ireland.

Dr Katherine Davies

MB ChB, MRCP, FRCEM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust; Former Registrar Training, Emergency Medicine, Leeds; Former SHO Positions, York and Leeds (1998 – 2004); Former House Jobs, Bristol (1995 – 1996); Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Mr Lee Davies

LLB, PG Dip (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Deputy District Judge, Magistrates’ Courts since 2022; Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Director and Solicitor Advocate, Goldstones Solicitors; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Member, Solicitors Association of Higher Court Advocates (SAHCA).

Mrs Hannah De Merode 

MA (Hons), CPE (College of Law), LPC (College of Law), Qualified Solicitor (Non-practising)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Performance Advisory Group, NHS England London & South; Lay Chair, Performers List Decision Panel, NHS England London & South; Public Member, NIHR Health Technology Assessment Funding Committee (Clinical Evaluation & Trials); Former Lay Representative, Health Education England, Wessex (2013-2021).

Mrs Suzi (Suzanne) Denton

BA, LLB, GDL, LPC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Former Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Former Freelance Law Tutor, BPP University; Former Practice Development Lawyer, Irwin Mitchell; Member, Resolution; Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). 

Dr Paul Diprose 

BM, FRCS (Ed), FRCA, FFICM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant Anaesthetist, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust; Private practice in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care; Occasional paid honoraria from various healthcare companies; Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Association for Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Critical Care; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd); Former Member, Southampton 'A' Research Ethics Committee (2006-2012). 

Mr Malcolm Dodds

LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Treasurer, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church; Trustee, Milton Keynes Child Contact Centre; Trustee, Eynsham Museum and Heritage Centre; Volunteer Driver, Eynsham Driver Scheme; Retired District Judge, Magistrates Court (2012-2021); Member, National Trust; Member, English Heritage; Member, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); Member, Greenpeace.

Mr Piers Doggart 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010.

Mr Andy (Andrew) Donovan

LLB

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Solicitor; Founder and Managing Director, Compliance Office Ltd; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Former Director, Cilex Regulation Limited; Former Legal Policy Manager, Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority; Former Trustee of Appeal.

Miss Gabrielle Downey (Luesley)

MBBCh, BAO, MD, FRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Peer review, NHS Wales; Former Consultant, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Obstetricians.

Mr Stephen Downing

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor Advocate, Criminal and Civil Proceedings; Lecturer, Professional Legal Training, BPP University; Freelance Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Member, The Law Society. 

E 

Dr Carl Egdell

MB ChB, DCH, DRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Meadowgreen Health Centre; GP Lead Appraiser, NHS England Midlands; Former Locum GP and Salaried GP Positions, Sheffield and Derbyshire (2000-2005).

Mr Sean Ell

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2011; Barrister at Law; Barrister, Garden Court North Chambers; Former Councillor, Wigan MBC; Former Authority Member, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue; Member, Immigration Lawyers Practitioner's Association.

Dr Susan Ellerby 

MBChB, MSc, MBA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Former Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Former Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Retired Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Former Deputy Director of Public Health and Health Improvement, Leicester City; Former Fellow, Faculty of Public Health; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.  

F

Dr Matthew Fiander 

BA, MSc, PhD

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Specialist Tribunal Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber; Former Chair Adjudicator, Social Work England.

Mr Neil Fielding

LLB (Hons), LPC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Fee Paid Judge, Mental Health Tribunal, Wales; Member, Law Society.

Dr Eric Finlay

BSc, MBChB, MSc, DCH, MRCP (Paediatrics, UK)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Locum Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Self-Employed, Medico-Legal; Former Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Former Clinical Adviser, Royal Pharmaceutical Society; Member, Medical Protection Society.  

Mr Nick (Nicholas) Flanagan 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister at Law, Lincoln's Inn; Tenant Barrister in Private Practice, Cobden House Chambers, Manchester; Recorder, Crime, Northern Circuit since 2023; Tribunal Judge, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2019; Fee-Paid Employment Judge since 2021; Junior Counsel to the Crown (Regional), Attorney General's Office since 2012; Former Assistant Coroner, Manchester (North) Coronial Area; Former Trustee, Tiny Tickers (Reg. Charity No 1078114); Member, Employment Lawyers' Association; Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Dr Laura Florence

MBChB, RCGP, GDL, RCPathME, JP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP; Clinical Lead, Derbyshire Health United; GP Appraiser, NHS England; Medical Examiner, University Hospitals of Northamptonshire; Clinical Director, Orbalis Healthcare; Justice of the Peace; Magistrate, Adult Criminal Court, Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland; Former Acute Care Common Stem Trainee, University Hospitals Leicester (2006-2008); Former Anaesthetics Trainee, University Hospitals Leicester (2007-2014); Member, Magistrates Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Caroline Friendship

BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Partner (Practitioner Psychologist), Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Specialist Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Health Education and Social Care Chamber; Lay Member, Fitness to Practice, Nursing and Midwifery Council.

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Mr Andrew Galliford-Yates

MA (Med Eth), BA (Hons), RMN, PGD (Psych SexTh), PGD (Med Hypno)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Clinical Nurse Specialist, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Trust; Specialist Member, Mental Health Tribunal, Ministry of Justice; Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Dr Mark Garfield

MB ChB, FRCA, FFICM, RCPathME

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant, Intensive Care Medicine, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust since 2000; Former Anaesthetic Registrar, East Anglia (1996-2000); Former Anaesthetic SHO, Birmingham (1994-1996); Former Pre-Registration House Officer, Birmingham (1993-1994); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care; Member, Intensive Care Society; Member, Royal College of Pathologists.

Dr John Garner

MBChB, DRCOG, DCH, FRCGP, FRCP (Edin)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired GP; Former Director and Vice Chairman, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Former Vice-Chairman, BMA Staff Pensions Trustee Board, British Medical Association; Former Performance Assessor Team Leader, Fitness to Practise, GMC; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

Mr Andrew Gell 

BA, MA, MBA, BSc

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2014; Tribunal Member since 2014; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Health and Care Professions Council; Panellist, Investigation Committee Taxation Disciplinary Board; Panellist, Disciplinary and Fitness to Practise Committee, Bar Tribunal and Adjudication Service; Director, Andrew Gell Limited; Advisory services to Industry on Defence and Logistics issues; Retired Air Commodore, Royal Air Force.

Mr Thomas George 

MBBS, FRCS (Ed), FRCEM, Dip (HSM)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Former PLAB OSCE Examiner (1998-2020); Former Consultant in Emergency Medicine and Clinical Director, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (1984-2012); Fellow and Member, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow and Member, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Member, British Medical Association.

Ms Angela Georgiou

LLB (Hons), FRCS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister, Cobden House Chambers, Manchester.

Dr Anna Gevers 

MBChB, FCPsych(SA)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Locum Consultant Psychiatrist, Livewell Plymouth Community Mental Health Team; Former Consultant Psychiatrist, Cornwall Partnership Trust, 2006-2022.

Dr Obadah Ghannam 

MBBS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, LLM, PGCert (Med Ed), DPH, FHEA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP; Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber; Director, Circumcision Clinic; Former Trustee, Centre for Islam and Medicine; Former GP, Midlands Medical Partnership; Former Locum GP, Birmingham, Solihull, Warwickshire and Coventry; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Islamic Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Ammar Ghouri 

MRCGP, MBChB, BSc (Hons)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Partner, Lakeside Healthcare Group; Clinical Tutor, University of Leicester Medical School; Clinician, Derbyshire Health United (Out of Hours); Locality Chair for Corby, Northamptonshire Local Medical Committee since 2022; Specialist Advisor (Primary Care), Care Quality Commission; Former Locality Chair, Northamptonshire Clinical Commissioning Groups (2020-2022); Former Vice-Chair, Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Local Medical Committee (2014-2019); Former GP Partner, Washbrook Medical Group (2018-2019); Former GP Partner, South Wigston Health Centre (2014-2018); Member, Medical Defence Union (MDU) since 2014.

Mrs Emma Gilberthorpe

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service since 2021; School Governor, Woodthorpe Church of England Primary School; Former Legal Team Manager, HM Court Tribunal Service (HMCTS) (2005-2021).

Mr Inderjeet Gill

MA (Oxon) (Modern Languages & Literature), MA (History of Art), GDL, BVC

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Recorder, Crown Court since 2022; Barrister; Legal Adviser, Fitness to Practice Tribunal, Social Work England; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Mental Health Chamber; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal.

Dr Mandeep Gill

MRCGP, MB ChB, BSc, DRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP; GP Appraiser; Medical Member, Tribunal Service, Social Security and Child Support; Medical Assessor, VDPS; Former Locum GP Positions, The Black Country (2021-2023); Former Salaried GP, Wolverhampton (2015-2021); Member, British Medical Association.

Professor Eilish Gilvarry

MB, MCh, BAO

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2024; Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions, Deputy Responsible Officer, and Deputy Medical Director for Revalidation & CPD, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Professor of Addiction Psychiatry, Newcastle University; Former Chair on the Advisory Committee on Substance Use, Department for Transport; Former President, Society for the Study of Addiction; Trustee Member, Medical Council on Alcohol; Assessor (Health), Pharmaceutical Council; Member, Royal College of General Practice England; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists, England.

Mr Michael Glickman

MA (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Pharmaceutical Council; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Lay Member, Joint Disciplinary Panel, Intellectual Property Regulation Board; Trustee, Gateshead Hatzola Community Ambulance Service; Former Public Governor, North-East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (2011-2020); Former Director, Healthwatch Gateshead (2015-2017).

Miss Debi (Deborah) Gould

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Principal Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Deputy Chair Board of Trustees, Wirral Change; Safeguarding and Care Governor, West Kirby Residential School; Criminal Bar Association.

Mr Stephen Gowland

FCILEX

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Non-Executive Board Member, The Legal Services Board; Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Member, Joint Audit Committee, Durham PCC & Durham Chief Constable; In-house Counsel, Positive IT Consultants Ltd; Associate, College of Policing; Lay Member, Professional Standards Panel, Chartered Institute of Public Relations; Fellow, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX).

Mr Alex Graham

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Partner, Heckford Norton Solicitors; Former Chair of Governors, Primary School, Hertfordshire.

Miss Samantha Gray

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Former Solicitor & Partner, Langleys Solicitors LLP (2000-2017).

Miss Tamina Greaves (Morris)

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Solicitor-Assessor, Kaplan SQE; Legally Qualified Adviser, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Office; Co-Chair, Birmingham Black Lawyers CIC.

Mr Martyn Green 

BDS, MFGDP (UK), DPDS, FDS, RCPS (Glasgow)

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Fee-Paid Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Primary Health Lists, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber; Non-Executive Director, Dentists' Provident; Member, Council of Reference, Bridge2Aid (Dental Charity); Former Dental Member, Appointments Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Probate Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales; Former General Dental Practitioner, Senior Partner in NHS Practice; Former Vocational Training Adviser; Former Regional Adviser in General Dental Practice; Former Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean (DF1), S.W. Dental Postgraduate Deanery; Former Panel Member and Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, General Dental Council (2003-2013); Fellow, Dental Surgery, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow; Member, Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, Royal College of Surgeons England. 

Dr Tony Gu

BMedSci, MBChB, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; GP Partner, Valance Medical Centre; Debrief Tutor, Manchester Medical School; Representative, Manchester Local Medical Committee; Director, Ardwick & Longsight Primary Care Network; Director, SCG Medical Group; Admin, Manchester CPD Group; Former locum positions in the Manchester Area (2014-2017); Former Junior Doctor, various Manchester hospitals (2009-2014); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP); Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy. 

Miss Mamta Gupta

BSc (Hons) (Pharmacology)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury, No. 5 Chambers.

Miss Naomi Gyane

LLB, PGDip

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, Pump Court Chambers; Chancellor of the Diocese of Leicester, Church of England.

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Dr Tayyab (Muhammad) Haider MBE

MBBS, FRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Physician, Basildon University Hospital; Medical Director, Mid and South Essex; Deputy Chief Medical Officer, NHS Foundation Trust; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of London; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Kenneth Hamer

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Practicing Barrister; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Member, Prosecuting Panel, Bar Standards Board; Chairman, Review of the Selection and Appointments Process of Independent Members to Police Authorities, Home Office; Author of Professional Conduct Casebook; Committee Member and Joint Editor, Quarterly Bulletin, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Recorder, Crown Court, Ministry of Justice; Former Chairman, Appeal Committee, Institute of Chartered Management.

Mrs Sarah Hamilton

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council; Chair, Health and Care Professions Council; Chair, General Optical Council; Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Commissioner, Boundary Commission for England; Assessor/Marker, Kaplan; Independent Reviewer, Independent Press Standards Organisation; Former Non-Executive Director, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT), 2016-2020; Member, Law Society.

Mr Christopher Harper

MA (Hons) (Economics), GDip (Law), Bar Professional Training Course

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Former Trustee, Royal Life Saving Society UK (2014-2017).

Dr Atif (Muhammad) Hassan

BSc (Hons), MBBS, CIDC, DRCOG, DPD, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; GP Partner, University Medical Practice, Birmingham; Clinical Director, Harborne Primary Care Network; Training Programme Director, West Birmingham GP Vocational Training Scheme, NHS England; GP Appraiser, NHS England; GP Tutor, Aston Medical School; GP Partnership Board Member and South Locality Lead GP, NHS Birmingham and Solihull; Personal Academic Tutor, University of Birmingham Medical School; Former GP Partner, Chopwell Primary Healthcare Centre CCG, 2009-2015; GP Locum, Birmingham, 2008-2016; PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council, 2019-2025; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defense Union; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Helen Hayhoe

MA (Oxon), MBBS, LLM, MRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Geriatrician, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge; Former Geriatric Specialty Training Scheme, East Deanery (2017-2022); Member, BMA; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, British Geriatrics Society.

Mr Mike (John) Hayward 

BMedSci, BMBS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant Ophthalmologist, York Hospital; Former Team Leader, Performance Procedures, General Medical Council (1998-2015); Former Vice President and Chairman of Training Committee, Royal College of Ophthalmologists (2011-2015); Former Associate Postgraduate Dean, Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber (2009-2018).

Ms Katherine Henderson 

MA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, The Immigration and Asylum Chamber.

Mr Paul Hepworth

FCMI

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; FtP Associate, General Dental Council; Former Member, Wakefield Child Safeguarding Board, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Member, Wakefield Health and Wellbeing Board, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

Mrs Debbie Hill 

BSc (Social Policy and Social Work), Dip (Law), Bar Vocational Course

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Non-Practising Barrister; Member, Parole Board for England and Wales; Parole Commissioner for Northern Ireland; Lay Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal; Lay Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Specialist Member, Criminal Injuries Compensation; Disability Member, Social Security Tribunals; Chair, Fitness to Practice Panels for Chiropractors. 

Ms Annie Hockaday  

MA (Cantab), LLM, BPTC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Deputy District Judge, His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service; Adjudicator, Traffic Penalty Tribunal.

Mrs Maeve Holland

LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Solicitor Consultant, Business Services Organisation; Fee-Paid Member of Tribunals Appeals Service and Lay Member of Legal Services Commission (Civil Appeals), Northern Ireland Civil Service; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Dr Joseph Home

MSc, MBA, BMBS, CMGR, FCMI

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Clinical Innovation Lead, Bupa; Public Health Registrar, NHS; Board Member, Medical Aid Films; Former Junior Doctor, North Manchester Hospital; Former National Medical Directors Fellow, The Health Foundation; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Chartered Management Institute.

Dr Emily Hubbard

BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hons), FRCA (2014)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Education Fellow, Guy’s Cancer Academy; Clinical Educator, University of Buckingham Medical School; Former GP Trainee, Oxford Deanery (2015-2021); Former Anaesthetics Trainee, Oxford Deanery (2010-2015); Member, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.

Mrs Meloney Hughes

LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor, District Crown Court; Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.

Ms Susan Hurds

MSc, HDCR, CHSM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Employment Tribunal Service (Wales Region); Lay Member, Adjudication Panel for Wales; Lay Member, Residential Property Tribunal Wales; Lay Panellist, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy; Former Director of Primary Care and Planning, Former Deputy Chief Executive and Former Acting Chief Executive - Ceredigion Local Health Board; Former General Manager, Clinical Support Services, Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust; Various Radiography positions in North Wales, Warwickshire and Mid Wales.

Mr Gul Nawaz Hussain KC

LLB, BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Non-Executive Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2022; Freelance Presenter, BBC; Member, Advisory Board.

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Miss Ruona (Ogheneruona) Iguyovwe OBE

LLB, BL

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS); Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels; Member, The Law Society, England and Wales; Member, CPS.

Mr Robin Ince

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2010; Tribunal Member since 2015; Fee-Paid First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; Legal Assessor, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings, Police and Crime Commissioners, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester and Merseyside; Member and Former President, Manchester Law Society; Member, The Law Society.

Mr Lindsay Irvine CB

MA (Oxon), MA (London), Dip (Law)

Lay 

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister; Former Commissioned Officer, RAF Legal Branch (1986-2017); Retired Air Vice-Marshal, Royal Air Force; Former Director, Royal Air Force Legal Services and Legal Adviser to the Air Force Board (2009-2017); Fellow and Former Member, Air Law Group, Royal Aeronautical Society.

Mrs Zeenat Islam

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Panel Member, Redress Scotland; Race Trainer, Bar Council; Associate Tutor, University of Warwick Law School; Member, The Honourable Society of Inner Temple; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Muslim Lawyers Action Group; Member, Bar Human Rights Committee; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association.

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Mr Amir Jaleel

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Fee-Paid Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) and Fee-Paid Judge of the Employment Tribunal, Ministry of Justice; Consultant Solicitor, Lexadeen Solicitors; Member, Law Society.

Dr Sharmila Jandial

MBChB, MRCPCH, MD

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Paediatric Rheumatologist, Great North Children’s Hospital; Head of Professional Practice, MBBS, School of Medicine, Newcastle University; Chair, Paediatric Rheumatology College Specialist Advisory Committee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, British Society of Rheumatology.

Dr Sarah Jeffery

MB ChB, BSc (Hons)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GPST3, North-West Deanery; Former CMT Trainee, North-West Deanery; Member, Royal College of General Practice.

Dr Angela Jesudason

MB ChB (Hons), BSc, MRCP, MRCPCH, FRCPCH

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh; Panel Member, Children’s Hearing Scotland; Honorary Senior Lecturer; Former National Clinical Director, Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer; Former Clinical Lead roles, TYAC and MSNCYPC (2009-2019); Former Co-Chair, NCRI TYA GCT Clinical Studies Group (2017-2018); Former Chair, NCRI TYA Clinical Studies Group (2014-2017); Former Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Oncology, North Thames Grid Trainee, UCL Great Ormond Street Hospital (2004-2006); Member, Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group; Member, Teenagers and Young Adults with Cancer.

Dr Amit Jinabhai

BSc (Hons), PhD, FBCLA, FEAOO, SFHEA, MCOptom

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Specialist Member of the First-Tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care (HESC) Chamber; Hearings Panel Registrant Member, General Optical Council (GOC); Lay Regulatory Tribunal Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Lay Disciplinary Committee Member, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA); Lay Chairperson, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP); Final Assessment OSCEs External Examiner, College of Optometrists; Programme External Examiner (Optometry), Teesside University; Programme External Examiner (Optometry), University of Central Lancashire; Independent Chair of the Disciplinary Panel, UK College of Optometrists; Independent Fellowship Assessor, European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO); Former Senior Lecturer (Optometry), The University of Manchester (2012-2024); Former Programme External Examiner (Optometry), Bradford University (2019-2024); Member, UK College of Optometrists; Member, Association of Optometrists; Fellow, British Contact Lens Association; Fellow, European Academy of Optometry and Optics (EAOO); Registered Optometrist, General Optical Council (GOC); Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy.

Dr Suzanne Joels

BSc, MBBS, MRCGP, MRCPsych

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Clinical Lead, Dementia Clinical Network NHS London; Former Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (2002-2022); Former Clinical Director, Aging and Perinatal Mental Health, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (2010-2022); Member, British Medical Association.

Mrs Jane Johnson QPM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Health and Care Professionals Council; Former Police Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police (1987-2021).

Ms Cerys Jones 

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Senior Associate Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Tribunal Clerk, British Association of Counsellors & Psychotherapists; Chair and Panel Member, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Disciplinary Committee; External Member, Human Fertilisation & Embryology Committee; Trustee, Arthritis Action UK; Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Former Lead Ombudsman, Office of Legal Complaints (2010-2016); Former Head of Office of Independent Commissioner; Former Lay Member, Investigating Committee, General Dental Council (GDC) (2009-2014); Former Member, NHS Complaints Panel, South West; Member, The Law Society; Member, Association of Women Solicitors.

Dr Charlotte Jones

MBBS, MRCGP, DFSRH

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; GP Partner, Uplands and Mumbles Surgery; Primary Care Lead for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Clinical Editor, Swansea Bay University Health Board; GP Appraiser, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW); First-Tier Tribunal Medical Member, Ministry of Justice; Advisory Board Member, Vivari Communications; Board Member, Fair Treatment for Women in Wales (FTWW); Former Chair of the Welsh GP Committee, British Medical Association, 2013-19; Former Deputy Chair of the Welsh GP Committee, British Medical Association, 2010-13; Former Member, Morgannwg Local Medical Committee, 2004-19; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health. 

Ms Rachel Jones

BA, LLM, BPTC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister (full time); Member, Administrative Law Bar Association; Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Bar European Group.

Ms Samantha Jones

LLB, LLM, BPTC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, Self-Employed; School Governor, Haberdashers' Hatcham Free School; Freeman, Haberdashers’ Livery Company; Member, Action Against Medical Accidents (AVMA); Member, Personal Injuries Bar Association (PIBA); Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Society of Construction Law.

Mr Vijay Joshi

MB ChB, LLB (Hons), FRCSEd (C-Th), PGCert (Medical Law)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Surgeon, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Former Clinical Fellow, James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough; Former Clinical Fellow, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA; Former Cardiothoracic Registrar, East Midlands; Member, Royal College of Surgeon of Edinburgh; Member, European Society of Thoracic Surgery; Member, Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Hospital Consultants Specialist Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Ontario Bar Association.

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Ms Miriam Karp

MSc, BA (Hons), Cert (Ed)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2011; Panellist, Exceptional Circumstances Body, Department of Education; Chair, Fitness to Practise, Social Work England; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise, General Optical Council; Lay Member, Honorary Medical Advisory Panel, Secretary of State for Transport; Lay Member, Northern Ireland Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal; Former Non-Executive Director, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; Former Chair, Interim Orders Hearings, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Lay Representative, Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency; Former Fitness to Practise Panellist, Northern Ireland Pharmaceutical Society; Former Non-Executive Director, Public Health Agency; Former Non-Executive Director, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Former Non-Executive Director, Northern Ireland Teaching Council.

Ms Chitra Karve

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Practising Solicitor; Panel Chair, Parole Board of England and Wales; Chair, Board of Trustees, Action for Southern Africa; Former Lay Member, Disciplinary Committee Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Mr John Kelly 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Company Director and Consultant in Forensics, Policing, Justice and Defence Sectors, International Capacity Building; Retired Police Officer and Former Director of Forensic Services and Intelligence, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Chetham’s School of Music Independent Safeguarding Commission.

Ms Jodie Kembery

BA (Hons), GDL, BPTC, LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, No5 Chambers.

Dr Nicola Kemp

MBBS, DRCOG, MSc

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Chief Medical Officer, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; Appraiser and Senior Appraiser, NHS England (Midlands & East); Locum GP, Hertfordshire; Former GPC Representative, British Medical Association; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Marianne Kennedy 

MBBS, PhD, MA, MSc

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Ophthalmology Specialist Registrar, Manchester Eye Hospital; Population Health Fellow, Health Education England; Former Foundation Doctor, Southampton General Hospital; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Ophthalmologists.

Mrs Aaminah Khan

LLB (Hons), Bar Vocational Course

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Legal Adviser, Fitness to Practice Panel, General Optical Council; Tenant, St John's Buildings; Former Enforcement Lawyer, Information Commissioner's Office; Former Tenant, New Bailey Chambers.

Dr Aamna Khan 

MB ChB, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP, BARDOC; Medical Director, BARDOC; Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester; Former Locum GP, Greater Manchester (2017-2022).

Dr Shehleen Khan 

MBChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, SFHEA, MSc (Med Ed)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Clinical Lecturer, University of Manchester; Sessional GP; GP Appraiser, NHS England; GP Recruitment Assessor, Health Education North West; Teaching Medical Students, OSCE Examiner and PBL Tutor, University of Lancaster; PLAB Examiner, GMC; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).

Dr Shez (Shehzad) Khan 

BSc, MBBS, MRCPsych, LLM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Psychiatrist, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust; Chair, Clinical Topics Panel, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Examinations Sub-Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, American Psychiatric Association; Member, British Association for Psychopharmacology; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Dr Zaheer Khonat

MBChB (Hons), MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; General Practitioner, Bolton Community Practice; Out of Hours GP, BARDOC; Out of Hours GP, Mastercall; OSCE Examiner; Former Special Constable, Greater Manchester Police; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Ms Jane Kilgannon

BA (Hons), GDL, BVC, DLM, DipFMS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Lay Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council since 2022; Lay Member, Appeal Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales since 2022; Legal Adviser, Social Work England since 2022; Legal Adviser, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants since 2022; Legally Qualified Chair, Heath and Care Professionals Council since 2021; Adjudicator, Office of the Schools Adjudicator since 2021; Adjudicator, Road User Charging Adjudicators Tribunal since 2019; Tribunal Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council since 2019; Tribunal Member, Employment Tribunal since 2019; Former Community Member, Audit Committee, North Central London NHS Clinical Commissioning Group.

Mr Stephen Killen 

LLB (Law), GDip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal member since 2014; Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, IAC; Legally Qualified Chair of the Appeals Tribunal (Social Entitlement); Legally Qualified Chair of the Review Tribunal (Mental Health); Member of the Statutory Fitness to Practice Committee of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; Member, Law Society of Northern Ireland; Member, Law Society of England & Wales; New York State Bar.

Mrs Kate Kirwin

LLB (Hons), BVC, QLTT

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Deputy District Judge, Civil and Family; Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber.

Mr Birju Kotecha

LLB (Hons), Called to Bar (Middle Temple), PGCE, MA, PhD

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Assistant Professor, University of Northumbria; FtP Panel Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Partner, Health and Care Professions Council.

Mr Sean Kyne

BA (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.

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Dr Hiu (Wang) Lam

BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MSc (Medical Leadership), MRCP, FRCA, FRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia, University Hospitals Plymouth; Former Associate and Deputy Postgraduate Dean, NHS England, 2014-2024; Former Director of Medical Education, University Hospitals Plymouth, 2009-2013; Former Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, 2000-2004; Former Consultant Attending Anesthesiologist, Michigan, USA, 1999-2000; Member, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS).

Mrs Colette Lang

LLB (Hons), Law Society Finals

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2012; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Former Legal Director, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS); Member, The Law Society. 

Dr Nigel Langford

BSc (Hons), MBChB, MD, MRCP, MRPharmS

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Consultant, NHS University Hospital Leicester; Clinical Pharmacologist, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Health Technology Assessment (Committee C), National Research Ethics Service (Edgbaston Committee); Former, Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, British Pharmacological Society; Member, Society of Acute Medicine; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Dr Bridget Langham 

MBChB, DA (UK), FRCA, MMedSci (Med Ed), FAcadMEd

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Retired Consultant Anaesthetist, Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Retired Director of Foundation Training for the East Midlands, Health Education England.

Mrs Barbara Larkin 

Bachelor of Financial Services

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014.

Miss Megan Larrinaga

LLB (Hons), LLM, Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Senior Legal Adviser, Oil and Gas Authority; Deputy District Judge, South Eastern Circuit; Chair, Appeals Panel, England Infected Blood Support Scheme; Chair, Appeals Panel, Infected Blood Payment Scheme, Northern Ireland; Former Adviser, CCGs and PCIs, NHS England (2014-2017); Former Secondee, Professional Standards Authority and NHS England; Former Assistant Legal Adviser, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Member, Law Society.

Dr Jonathan (Andrew) Leach OBE

MB ChB, MRCGP, FRCGP, MSc (Med), DRCOG, DIMC

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP, Davenal House Surgery, Bromsgrove; Associate Medical Director, Military and Veterans Health, NHS England; ICB, NHS Hertfordshire and NHS Worcestershire; Committee Member, Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation; Governing Body Member, PCC; Former National Medical Director, Covid 19 Vaccination, NHS England (Sept 2020 – Sept 2022); Former Joint Secretary, Royal College of General Practitioners (2017-2021); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, British Medical Association.

Mrs Linda Lee

BA (Law) (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Licence Committee Member, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority since 2021; Consultant Solicitor, Weightmans (Formerly Radcliffes LeBrasseur) since 2012; ICP Chair, Health and Care Professions Council since 2023; Assistant Coroner, Coventry and Warwickshire since 2021; Deputy District Judge since 2021; Commissioner, Criminal Cases Review Commission since 2017; Board Member and Deputy Chair, Body Corporate, Criminal Cases Review Commission; Panel Member, East West Rail Need to Sell Panel since 2023; Panel Member, HS2 Need To Sell Panel since 2017; Committee Chair and Adjudicator, Primary Care Appeals Service (PCAS) since 2014; Lecturer, MBL Seminars (2006-2010, Resumed 2012); Incorporated Council of Law Reporting since 2016; Trustee of the pension scheme, Law Society; Council Member, Medico-Legal Society since 2008; Chair, Solicitors Assistance Scheme since 2014; Committee Member, Solicitors Assistance Scheme since 2013; Chair, Professional Indemnity Insurance Committee of the Law Society since 2021; Former Contributing Editor, Cordery on Legal Services since 2014; Former Council Member, Law Society of England and Wales since 2003; Former Committee Member, Northamptonshire Law Society since 2003; Former roles, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (2006-2010); Former President, Law Society of England and Wales (2010-2011); Former President, Northamptonshire Law Society (2013-2015); Former President, Medico-Legal Society (2014-2016); Former Consultant, Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) (2013-2015); Former Solicitor Member, Queens Counsel Selection Panel (2011-2015); Member and Former Chair of the Regulatory Process Committee; Member, Policy and Regulatory Affairs Committee; Member, Access to Justice Committee; Member, Law Society.

Mr Richard Lee

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, Self-Employed.

Mr Andrew Lewis 

MA (Jurisprudence), Barrister

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2014; Barrister; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge (Mental Health); Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Reserve List, Deputy Legally Qualified Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council since 2018; Legal Adviser, Social Work England since 2019; Former Deputy District Judge, Magistrates Courts; Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Dr Harriet Leyland 

BSc (Pharmacology & Physiology), MBChB, FRCA, MSc (Global Health Policy), FFMLM, MFCI

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Director, HML Health Ltd – Healthcare Consultancy; Principal Clinical Safety Officer, Ethos Ltd; Former Head of Operations, TCC-CASEMIX Ltd; Former Partner, Datalla Group; Former Strategic Clinical Lead, Care Visions Group; Former Medical Director, Qured; Former Healthcare Specialist, Healthcare UK, Department for International Trade; Founding Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FFMLM); Member, Faculty of Clinical Informatics.

Mr Juleun Lim

LLB, Solicitor, Non-Practising Barrister

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Senior Lawyer and Team Leader, HMRC Legal Group, HMRC.

Mrs Claire Lindley

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister Member of the Independent Decision Making Body, Bar Standard Board; Bencher at Gray’s Inn; Trustee, Slynn Foundation; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Dr Gillian Livesey

MB ChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, DOccMed

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP, West Midlands Deanery, Shropshire; Medically Qualified Member, Social Entitlement Chamber, HM Courts and Tribunal Service; Regional Medical Appraiser; Former Occupational Health Director, Birmingham and Chester; Member, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS).

Dr James Lucas

MB, BCh, BAO, FRCPath, DMJ(Path)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Honorary Editor, Ulster Medical Journal; Medical (Specialist) Member, Appeal Tribunals, Northern Ireland; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber); Honorary Lecturer, School of Medicine, Queen’s University Belfast; Former Medical Adviser, The Cabinet Office, HM Government, 2024; Former Member, Ethics Committee, Royal College of Pathologists; Former Medicolegal Adviser/Consultant, Medical Protection Society LTD, 2013-2024; Former Medicolegal Adviser, Medical Defence Union Services LTD, 2010-2013; Former Forensic Pathologist, Home Office Register, 2008-2010; Member, Medical Protection Society; Former Member, Medical Defence Union.

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Dr David Mabin

MBChB, LLM, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCPCH

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Paediatrician and Deputy Medical Director, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust; Former Associate Dean, University of Exeter Medical School; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Medical & Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS); Member, Paediatricians with Expertise in Cardiology Special Interest Group (PECSiG).

Mr John MacGregor KC

LLB (Hons), BCL, Dip (LP)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Self Employed Advocate (King’s Counsel), Axiom Advocates; Deputy Counsel to the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry; Chair, Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Council; Legal Assessor, Healthcare and Care Professions Council; Equality and Human Rights Commission, Panel of Counsel; Member, Faculty of Advocates, Free Legal Services Unit.

Mr Douglas Mackay

BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Solicitor; Former Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor (DCCP), Crown Advocate, and CPS National Lead for Criminality in Sport, Crown Prosecution Service.

Mrs Cindy Mackie 

BA, Dip (RSA), CIPD Graduate Award, Further Cert (Adult Education Teaching), Dip (Business Coaching)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Assessor, Public Appointment; Committee Member, Northern Ireland Social Care Council since 2022; Board Member, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland; Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspector, General Dental Council (GDC) Education Programmes, UK; Lay Examiner, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; School Governor, Special School, Northern Ireland; Retired Civil Servant; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2017); Former experience on integrated regional children's services committees.

Mr Angus Macpherson

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister.

Miss Atiyah Malik

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Recorder, Ministry of Justice (Family Court); Employment Tribunal Judge and First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Ministry of Justice; Freelance Consultant Solicitor Advocate; Chair, Board of Trustees, Kingsway Community Trust. 

Dr Jane Margetts

BA, MBBS, DRCOG, PGCME

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Sessional GP; Medically Qualified Tribunal Member, Social Security and Criminal Injuries Jurisdictions; GP Appraiser; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society.

Ms April Marland

LLB (Hons) (University of Bristol), LLM (Health Care Ethics and Law) (University of Manchester), Professional Workplace Mediator ILM, The City and Guilds of London Institute

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Solicitor; Solicitor Consultant, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust; Member, The Law Society.

Mrs Francesca Martin

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Self-Employed Barrister at Law; Barrister, Serious Injury Group, No5 Chambers; Member, Personal Injuries Bar Association.

Dr Sarah Marwick 

MBChB (Birmingham), FRCGP, DFFP, DRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2011; GP Locum, various practices; Associate Medical Director, Professional Regulation and Appraisals/Revalidation, NHS England, West Midlands; GP Appraiser since 2010; GP Appraiser, Regional Appraiser (Midlands and East), NHS England; Appraiser, MIAD; Non-Executive Board Member, Strategic Policing and Crime Board, Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, West Midlands; Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust; GP with special interest in the homeless since 2002; Former Junior Doctors Committee (1998-2001); Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners since 2001; Member, British Medical Association; Forum Moderator, Doctors.net.uk. 

Ms Sarah McAnulty 

BSc (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Panel Member, Social Work England; Lay Panel Member, HCPC; Vice Chair, CIMA; Education Inspector and CPD Assessor, Social Work England; Service User Expert, HCPC; Former Case Review Officer, Former Associate Appraisal and Training Senior Officer, Former Project Manager, Former Continuous Improvement Manager, General Medical Council (2013 – 2023).

Mrs Clair McCarthy

BA (Hons), Solicitor (HCA & Duty)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Police Station Representative; Freelance SQE Assessor, Kaplan; Member, Law Society.

Dr Victoria McCloud

BA, DPhil, Dip. (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister; Freelance/Self-Employed Lawyer; Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society (BPS) and Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).

Dr William McClune 

PhD, MEd, BSc, PGCE

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023.

Dr Gary McCormack

MB ChB, CCT (General Practice)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; General Practitioner; Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Lancashire; Former Locum GP, Manchester; Former PLAB Examiner, General Medical Council; Former Clinical Debrief Tutor, University of Manchester; Former GP Trainer.

Dr Helen McCormack 

BM, Soton, MRCPsych, FRCPsych

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2015; Member, Parole Board since 2021; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Ministry of Justice; Executive Member, Old Age Faculty, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Former Tribunal Chair, MPTS (2015-2019).

Ms Hermione McEwen 

BSc, Solicitor (Non-practising)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security and Child Support; Chair, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Social Work England; Director, TortureID.

Dr Becky (Rebecca) McGee

BMedSci, BMBS, DCH, DRCOG, RCGP, Dip Ther

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Appeals; GP Locum, South-East Wales; Medical Advisor to Public Services Ombudsman for Wales; Medical Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Section 12(2) approved Doctor, MHA assessments; Former GP Partner, Oak Street Surgery, Cwmbran, Torfaen (2012-2022).

Mr Gregor McGill

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Road User Charging Adjudicator; Legally Qualified Adviser, Police Misconduct Panels; External Assurance Group Member, Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery.

Mr Rob (Robert) McKeon

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Independent Member and Chair, The Parole Board; Member, Parole Board, Management Committee; Retired Magistrate, since 2016.

Mr David McLean

LLB (Hons), Dip (LP), LLM (Commercial Law) (Distinction)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Advocate; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Member of Panel, Counsel for the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Scotland; Standing Junior Counsel, Scottish Government; Legal Assessor, General Teaching Council, Scotland; Member, International Cricket Council’s Panel of Development Umpires; Member, Faculty of Advocates.

Mr George McLean

BSc, LLB, Solicitor 

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Former Scientific Officer, Medical Laboratory (1976-1987); Former Lay Representative, NICE Glaucoma Working Group.

Mrs Christine McLoughlin

BA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Solicitor; Deputy District Judge, Ministry of Justice; Member, Law Society.

Ms Sharmistha Michaels

BSc (Hons) (Chemistry), LLM, Barrister

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Barrister, 5 St Andrew’s Hill Chambers; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; Former Barrister, Drystone Chambers; Former Trustee, 28 Too Many; Member, Middle Temple.

Mrs Becky (Rebecca) Miller

LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister (Self-employed); Trustee & Governor, The Education Alliance; Member, Bar Council.

Dr Rachel Miller

BDS, MFDS (RCSEd), DSCD (RCSEd), GDL, LLM, DLM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Dental Officer, Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust since 2005; Clinical Case Examiner, General Dental Council since 2016; Dental Tutor, NHS England since 2023; Former Dental Practitioner (2001 – 2005). 

Dr Paul Mitchell

MA, PGCE, MBChB, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Salaried GP, Edinburgh; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Mohamed Mohamed 

MBBS, FRCS, MS, FRCS (Gen Surg)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Vascular Surgeon, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust; Consultant General Surgeon, Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, Gillingham; Former Surgical Registrar, South-East England (1996-2006); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical Protection Society; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Ms Christina (Alice) Moller 

MA, LLM (Medical Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, Nexus Chambers; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Legally Qualified Chair, Health and Care Professions Council (IC); Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Former Tenant, Alexander Chambers.  

Ms Elspeth Moncrieff

MA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Associate Solicitor, Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP.

Dr John Moriarty 

BA, MBBCh, BAO, FRCPI, MRCPsych, MD

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2015; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Health Education and Social Care Chamber (Mental Health), England; Honorary Senior Lecturer, King's College London; Former Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of Medical Education, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (2003-2018); Former Consultant Psychiatrist, Central & Northwest London, NHS Foundation Trust (1996-2003).

Ms Gail Mortimer 

BA (Hons), MA, PGCE

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Retired Teacher; Former Lay Chair, Fitness to Practise Panels, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2013-2021); Former Lay Chair, General Chiropractic Council Conduct and Competence Committee (2013-2021); Former Lay Chair, Quality Assurance Inspection Panels, General Dental Council (2012-2022); Former Chair, General Teaching Council of England; Former Teach First Professional Tutor.

Mr Paul Moulder 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2012; Barrister in Private Practice; Legal Adviser, Professional Conduct Committee, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, Adjudicatory Panels, Social Work England; Legal Assessor, Disciplinary Committee, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Legal Adviser, Conduct & Competence Committees, General Chiropractic Council; Legal Adviser, Chartered Institute of Management Accountant; Former Panellist, Conduct, Competence and Health Committees and Registration Appeals Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Former Legally Qualified Panellist, Professional Committees, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Dr Patricia Moultrie 

MBChB, LLM, FRCGP, DRCOG, DOccMed, DDAM

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2012; Sessional General Practitioner; Deputy Chair, Scottish General Practitioners Committee, British Medical Association; Medical Director, Glasgow Local Medical Committee; Medical Member, Pensions Appeal Tribunal Scotland; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber, War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber, HMCTS; Clinical Advisor, General Pharmaceutical Council; Former GP Appraiser, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde (2004-2014); Former MPTS Committee Member; Fellow, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, BMA. 

Mrs Catherine Moxon

BA (Hons) (Law & Business Studies), BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister, Park Square Barristers; Visiting Lecturer, University of Law; Deputy Traffic Commissioner, Office of the Traffic Commissioner; Chair, School Exclusions Panel; Chair, School Admissions Panel; Panelist, British Psychoanalytic Council.

Mr Nathan Moxon 

BVC, CPE, BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Called to the bar 2006; Legal Adviser, Social Work England fitness to practice hearings since 2019; CPD Assessor, Social Work England since 2021; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Immigration and Asylum Chamber since 2014; Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal since 2021; Fee-Paid Judge, Court of Protection since 2022; Recorder, Crime since 2023; Former Visiting Lecturer, University of Law, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam University since 2017; Former Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Hearings; Former External Examiner, Bar Standard Board since 2013; Former Member, KBW Chambers Leeds. 

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Mr Zia Nabi

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Recorder; Deputy District Judge; Member, Housing Law Practitioners Association; Member, Administrative Law Bar Association; Member, Court of Protection Bar Association.

Dr Mahesh Nagar

MBBS, MD (Anaes), FCARSI, FRCA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2014; Associate Medical Director, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Trustee, Yorkshire Indian Society Charitable Trust; Member, International Advisory Board, Indian Journal of Anaesthesia; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI).

Dr Maya Naravi

BM, FRCEM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, Bradford Teaching Hospitals; Associate Dean, NHS England Workforce, Training, and Education, Yorkshire and Humber; Vice President, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Former Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (2012-2016); Former Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant, Leeds Teaching Hospitals (2004-2012); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Associate Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Ms Karen Naya 

BSc (Hons), PGDip

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Panel Member, Fitness to Practice Committee - Nursing and Midwifery Council; Company Director, Deep Dive Consulting Limited; Associate Consultant, Royal College of Nursing.

Ms Colette Neville 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England since 2019; Volunteer Newsreader, Charity for the visually impaired people; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Dental Council; Former Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Former Chair of the Investigation Committee, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Dr Janet Nicholls 

MBBS, FRCP, FRCPCH

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2012; Retired Consultant Paediatrician; Former Clinical Director, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Examination Board Article 14 Assessor, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Former Associate Postgraduate Dean, The London Deanery; Former Chair, BMA Local Negotiating Committee, British Medical Association.

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Mr Mark O’Brien 

MSc, PGDip, PGCert, GIFireE

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Director, Skylark Consulting Solutions Limited; Appropriate Adult, The Appropriate Adult Service; Former, Deputy Chief Fire Officer, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service; Graduate Member, Institution of Fire Engineers.

Ms Marianne O'Kane 

LLB, MBA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2011; Solicitor; Civil Servant; Senior Assistant Director, Public Prosecution Service Northern Ireland; Member, Law Society of Northern Ireland.

Dr Matthew O'Meara 

FRCA, MBChB, DRTM, DIMC, RCS (Ed), BSc (Hons)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Honorary Contract, East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust; Air Ambulance, The Air Ambulance Service (TAAS); Accredited Doctor, British Association of Immediate Care Schemes (BASICS); Consultant, Anaesthesia and Pre-Hospital Care, University Hospitals North Midland. Member, Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; Fellow, Royal College of Anaesthetists.

Mrs Julia Oakford

BA (Hons), LLM, DMS

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2009; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council since 2004; Solicitor; Member, Law Society.

Dr Tim (Timothy) Oakley

BMedSc, MBChB, MMedSc, MRCPsych

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Psychiatrist, Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust; Second Opinion Doctor, Care Quality Commission; Ministry of Justice (MoJ); Member, Electroconvulsive Therapy Accreditation Service (ECTAS) Standards Committee, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).

Ms Margaret Obi

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Solicitor; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Legal Assessor, General Optical Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professionals Council; Independent Assessor, Student Loan Company; Deputy High Court Judge; Former Legal Assessor, MPTS (2010-2018).

Dr Koye (Adekoyejo) Odutoye

MBBS, MRCPsych

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Psychiatrist, North London NHS Foundation Trust; Former Psychiatrist, Charing Cross Psychiatry Higher Training Scheme, 1996-2000; Former Psychiatrist, Charing Cross Psychiatry Core Training Scheme, 1993-1996; Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Ms Ijeoma Omambala KC

BA (Hons) (Law), MPhil

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Barrister at Law; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS); Member, Association of Regulatory Lawyers; Member, Professional Negligence Bar Association.

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Ms Jo (Giovanna) Palmiero

LLM, LPC

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Legal Advisor, ACCA; Legal Advisor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Freelance Trainer, K D Training Consultants; Freelance Trainer, LimeCulture CIC.

Dr Julius Parker

BA, MBChB, LLB, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2011; Chief Executive, Surrey and Sussex Local Medical Committees; Chair, Council East Berkshire Primary Care Out-of-Hours Service; Medical Adviser, HealthHero Ltd; Sessional General Practitioner, The Chapel Medical Centre, Slough; Representative for Surrey and Croydon Constituency, General Practitioners Committee (GPC) (England) at the British Medical Association (BMA); Deputy Chair, GPC England. 

Mrs Kim Parsons

LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Accredited Mediator; Deputy District Judge, County Court; Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Deputy Pensions Ombudsman; Former Casework Director, Pensions Ombudsman; Former Head of Legal, Pensions Regulator; Former Legal Director, Occupational Pensions Regulator.

Mrs Stacey Patel

BA (Hons), PG Dip. (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Legally Qualified Chair and Legally Qualified Advisor, Police Misconduct Panels, London; Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Advisor, Social Work England; Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal for England; Panel Member, Central Bedfordshire School Appeals; Former Legal Advisor, HM Courts and Tribunals Service.

Mrs Valerie Paterson 

LLB, Dip (LP), LLM, NP, WS

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Commission; Chair, General Optical Council; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Assessor, Health Care Professions Council; Legal Assessor, Social Work England; Legal Adviser, Institute & Faculty of Actuaries; Legal Adviser, General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS); Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants; Lay Observer, Annual Fitness to Practise Meeting, Scottish Deans (Medical Schools); Former Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Legal Chair, General Chiropractic Council; Former Public Interest Member, Discipline Panel, Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland; Former Panel Member and Chair, Council's Conduct Committee Royal Pharmaceutical Society, GB; Former Tutor, University of Edinburgh; Former Chair, General Dental Council (2006-2016); Former Chair, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Disciplinary Committees; Member, Law Society of Scotland; Member, Independent Legal Assessors; Writer to His Majesty's Signet, Solicitor and Notary Public.

Mrs Laura Paul

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber since 2013; Former First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber (2014-2016); Former Solicitor, specialising in Family Law (1990-2013).

Ms Debra Pearlman 

BSc (Hons) (Econ), Common Professional Exam (Law), Dip (Social Work), Cert Qual (Social Work), Cert (Spanish)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Mental Health Act Manager, Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust; Screener, Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers; Director and Trustee, Burmantofts Community Nursery Leeds; Former Panel Member, Bar Standards Board Independent Decision-Making Body (IDB); Former Lay Member, Mental Health Review Tribunal, Wales; Former Professional Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal; Former Contract Manager, Independent Review Mechanism (for Adopters and Foster Carers); Former Service Manager, Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS); Former Voluntary Joint Coordinator, SSWIM (Supporting Social Work in Malawi).

Ms Catherine Pease

BSc, CPE/LPC

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Solicitor (Mental Health), Peter Edwards Law Solicitors; Lay Member (Fitness to Practice), General Dental Council; Chair (Fitness to Practice), Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists; Member, Mental Health Lawyers Association; Member, Law Society.

Dr Fiona Pettet

MB ChB, BSc, MRCPCH, MRCGP (2015), MFFLM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Specialty Doctor, Community Paediatrics and Paediatric Sexual Assault Referral Service, Royal Devon University Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Small Group Facilitator and Academic Tutor, University of Plymouth; Former Forensic Medical Examiner, G4S, Devon and Cornwall; Former GP, Bruner Medical Practice (2015-2019); Former GP Provider, Devon Doctors (2015-2019); Former GP, Emergency Department, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Former GP Trainee, Severn Deanery (2010-2015); Former Paediatric Trainee, Severn Deanery (2009-2010); Various Former ED roles, South Australia (2007-2009); Former Foundation Doctor, Weston and Bristol (2005-2007); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine.  

Mr Adrian Phillips

LLB, LLM, Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Fee-Paid Judge of the First-Tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber, Ministry of Justice; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panels; Panellist, Professional Conduct Panel, Teaching Regulation Agency; Former Legal Team Member, Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, 1999-2001; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).

Dr Jeffrey Phillips 

BSc, MBBS, FRCA, FFICM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Ramsay Rivers Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Holly Private Hospital; Consultant Anaesthetist, The Herts and Essex Fertility Centre; Lead Appraiser, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; Trustee, St Clare Hospice; Retired Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthetics; Former Tutor, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow; Former Deputy Responsible Officer, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Former National Clinical Champion, Healthcare Acquired Infections Programme, Department of Health; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member,  Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine; Member, Intensive Care Society.

Ms Morgan Phillips 

LLM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Patient Complaints Investigator, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Magistrate, HM Courts and Tribunals Service.

Mrs Helen Potts

BA (Hons) (Chinese Studies) (Durham University), LLM (Medical Practice) (Cardiff University)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Independent Member, Parole Board; Former Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council (GCC); Former Contract Case Examiner, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Former Panel Chair, Fitness to Practice (FTP), NMC; Former FTP Panel Chair, Social Care Wales; Former FTP Panel Chair, General Dental Council (GDC); Former Lay Member, Investigation Committee (IC), General Medical Council (GMC); Former Chair, Disciplinary Committee, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Former International Policy Executive, The Law Society; Former Solicitor, Clifford Chance; Member, Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers.

Mr David Propert

BSc (Hons) (OST)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Osteopath, Calmer Clinics; Panellist, Fitness to Practise (PCC), General Osteopathic Council; Part-time Lecturer, University College of Osteopathy; Former Vaccinator, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (2020-2021); Former Director, The Health Equation; Former Agency Care Worker, St George’s and Wandsworth (1990-1993); Member, General Osteopathic Council; Member, Institute of Osteopathy; Member, Royal Society of Medicine; Member, FHEA; Member, British Association for Performing Arts Medicine; Member, British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine.

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Dr Wasim Qayum

MB ChB, MRCPCH, MSc

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Paediatric Consultant, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust; Member, British Medical Association; Member, British Paediatric Respiratory Society; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Miss Shamaila Qureshi

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; High Courts Advocate; Senior Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; Legally Qualified Chair/Legally Qualified Person, Office of Police and Crime Commissioner (Police Misconduct); Mental Health Act Manager, South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Former Non-Executive Director, Blackburn with Darwen Primary Care Trust; Former Non-Executive Director, NHS Pay Review Body; Former Mental Health Act Manager, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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Mr David Raff

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Lay Panellist, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Consultant, DLA Piper UK LLP; Trustee, Barnet Home-Start; Former Panellist, Teaching Regulation Agency; Former Chair, NNLS Destitute Asylum Seekers Drop-in (charity); Member, The Law Society. 

Dr Sheena Raja

BMedSci (Hons), BMBS, MRCGP (2016)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP and Health Assessor, Nuffield Health since 2023; Locum GP, Edinburgh and Lothians since 2016; Private GP, Spire Hospitals, Edinburgh since 2021; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Mr Tanveer Rakhim

BA (Hons), LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Tribunal Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Police Misconduct Panel; Former Solicitor, Kennedys Law LLP.

Ms Rama Krishnan (Lakshmi) Ramakrishnan

BSc (Social Science), CQSW, CASS, DMS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Chair, Audit Registration Committee, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales); Chair, Investigations Committee, Nursing & Midwifery Council; Chair, Investigations Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Chair and Lay member, Professional Conduct Committee, General Osteopathic Council; Lay Member, Bar Tribunal & Adjudication Services; Lay Member, Investigations Panel, Architects Registration Board; Lay Member, Professional Conduct Committee, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives; Lay Member, Adjudication Panel, Landscape Institute; Former Chair & Registrant, Fitness to Practise, Health & Care Professions Council (2012 – 2019); Former Specialist Advisor, Care Quality Commission; Former Inspector & Senior Performance Specialist, Audit Commission (2003 – 2011); Former Lay Chair, Professional Conduct Committee, General Chiropractic Council (2019 – 2022); Former Associate Hospital Manager, North East London Foundation Trust.

Dr Ranjana Rani

MBBS, MS

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2015; Former Consultant, Genitourinary Medicine.

Dr Pavan Rao 

MBBS, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Freelance GP; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG); Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Ms Morag Rea

BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Panel Chair, HCPC; Legally Qualified Chair, Eastern Region OPCC; Legally Qualified Chair, MOPAC.

 

Mr James Riley

BSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Associate Inspector, His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service.

Mr Duncan Ritchie

BA (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister-at-law; Crown Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service; Assistant Coroner, West Yorkshire (Western) and Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent.

Mr George Ritchie 

LLB

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Lay Member, Health and Care Professions Tribunal; Board Member, Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority; Independent Member, Audit and Risk Committee, Health Research Authority; Lay Public Interest Observer, Association of Taxation Technicians; Director, G D Ritchie Consulting Limited; Member, Law Society.

Dr Carol Roberts 

BA, BCh, MSc, FRCPCH

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Associate Medical Director, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust since 2022; Associate Advisor, Teams Review Service, NHS Resolution; Regional and National Appraiser, NHS England; Former Associate Specialist Community Paediatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (1998-2018); Former Deputy Medical Director, Professional Standards, Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (2018-2022); Former Member Trustee, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (2016-2021); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union; Member, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Member, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Ms Alice Robertson Rickard

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Fee-Paid Judge, First-Tier Tribunal; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Legal Adviser, General Pharmaceutical Council; Lay Member, General Optical Council; Former Lay Member, General Dental Council; Member, Gray’s Inn; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL).

Professor William Roche 

MSc, MD, FRCPath, SFFFMLM, MBBCh, BAO

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2017; Tribunal Member since 2015; Emeritus Professor of Pathology, University of Southampton; Honorary Consultant, University Hospitals Southampton; Chair, Revalidation and Appraisal Advisory Group, Faculty of Medical Management and Leadership; Former Chief Medical Officer, University Hospitals Sussex (Interim); Former Chair, Wessex Clinical Senate, NHS England (2013-2020); Former Responsible Officer, South East and South Central Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs); Former Medical Director, South East Coast SHA (2009-2013); Fellow, Royal College of Pathologists; Founding Senior Fellow, Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management.

Dr Loralie Rodrigues

MB ChB, MRCGP, DFSRH, ILM5, FHEA

Registrant

Tribunal Chair since 2023; Senior Clinical Teaching Fellow, Warwick University; Urgent Care GP, Oxford Health Foundation Trust; Coach and Mentor, NHS South-East Leadership Academy; Former Locum GP, Chipping Norton Health Centre (2021-2022); Former GP Registrar, North Oxfordshire (2016-2021); Former FY1 Doctor, Kettering General Hospital (2011-2012); Former FY2 Doctor, Leicester Medical School and Leicester Royal Infirmary; Member, GMC Medical Protection Society.

Ms Rosemary Rollason

LLB (Hons), Solicitor

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2023; Principal, RJ Rollason Law; Legal Adviser, GDC; Legal Adviser, Health and Care Professions Council; Legal Adviser, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Member, Discipline Committee, Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy; Committee Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Member, Law Society; Member, Association of Women Solicitors.

Ms Wanda Rossiter 

BA (Hons), ACG, FCCA

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Member, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Disciplinary and Regulatory Committees since 2016; Former Non-Executive Director and Chair, Audit Committee, Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (2013-2017); Former Employee, Audit Commission (1999-2011); Various Former Director and Senior Management Roles (private and not-for-profit); Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Mr Phil (Cecil) Rostant

BA (Hons) (Law), Barrister

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Freelance Trainer. 

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Ms Amarjit Sagar

LLB (Hons) (Sp)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legal Adviser, Magistrates Court; Independent Complaints Board, Labour Party; Chair, Valuation Tribunal; Legal Adviser, Westminster Magistrates Court; Member, Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

Mr Ali Sarwar

LLB (Hons) (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Dr Louis Savage

MBChB, BSc, MRCS, MRCGP, PGCME, DLM, MSc

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Sessional/locum GP NHS Gloucestershire ICB/Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Speciality doctor Elderly Care Medicine, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Guideline Committee Member, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); Quality Standards Committee Member, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE); Former Specialist Adviser/Inspector, Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Miss Leena Savjani

LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Partner, Irwin Mitchell LLP; Member, The Law Society; Member, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL).

Mr Thomas Scapens

LLB, BL

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister, Self-Employed.

Mr Mark Scott

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Legal Assessor, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; Legally Qualified Member, Social Security Appeal Tribunal, Northern Ireland; President, Northern Ireland Review Tribunal (Mental Health); Chair, Health and Care Professions Council Investigating Committee; Chair, Northern Ireland Victims' Payment Board Panels; Deputy Chair, Statutory Committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland; Former Head of Legal Team, Independent Neurology Public Inquiry (2018-2022); Former Solicitor, Directorate of Legal Services, Northern Ireland.

Mr Barrie Searle 

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Recorder since 2000; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council (GDC) since 2010; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) since 2013; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) since 2007; Legal Assessor, Social Work England (SWE); Former Barrister in Practice (1976-2015).

Dr William Seligman

BA (Hons) Oxon, BMBCh, MPH, MRCP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Head of Corporate Services, Critical Care International; Specialist Registrar in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London; Former Specialist Registrar in Intensive Care Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London (2019-2020); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (2018-2019); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London (2018); Former Core Trainee in Anaesthesia, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London (2017-2018); Former Foundation Year 2 Doctor, North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol (2015-2016); Former Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Swindon (2014-2015); Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Royal College of Physicians; Member, Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

Dr Emma Sellars

MB ChB, MRCGP, DFFP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; GP Partner, Peel Medical Practice, Tamworth; GP Appraiser, NHS England, West Midlands; Former GP Clinical Assistant in Gynaecology, Burton Hospitals (2017-2020); Member, Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH).

Mrs Cathie Seville

LLB (European Legal Studies)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Self-Employed Locum Consultant, Smith Partnership; Member, Law Society.

Mr Mohammad Shahid 

MB ChB, MRCSed, FRCS (Tr & Orth), MSc (Orth Eng), Dip (Football Med)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Practice Plus Group Hospital, Shepton Mallet; Major Trauma Consultant, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Team Doctor, Solihull Football Club; Interview Panel Member, Undergraduate Admissions for Medicine, University of Birmingham; Former Trainee Surgeon, West Midlands (2011-2018); Former Post CCT Fellow (Orthopaedic), Barts Hospital NHS Trust (2019-2020); Former Post CCT Fellow (Orthopaedic), Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust (2020-2021); Former Consultant (Orthopaedic); Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust (2021-2022); Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland; Member, Canadian Arthroplasty Society.

Mrs Nessa Sharkett 

LLB (Hons), PGDL, SCM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Employment Judge.

Ms Joanne Shelley

BSc (Hons), Dip (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Solicitor; Partner at Law Firm; First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge.

Mr Darren Shenton

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Panel Member, Conduct and Competence Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Detective Chief Superintendent, Greater Manchester Police. 

Mr Jetinder Shergill 

LLB (Hons), LLM (KCL), MInstLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015; Legal Assessor since 2017; Tribunal Chair since 2013; Tribunal Member since 2011; Barrister; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber; Employment Tribunal Judge; Legally Qualified Chair, Financial Reporting Council; Former Home Office Lawyer, advising on prison law including prisons healthcare; Former Lawyer, advising on miscarriages of justice, Scottish and UK criminal and prisons law, Scottish Government; Former Adjudicator, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Part-time Public Law Lecturer, King’s College London; Former Independent Disciplinary Assessor, Association of Chartered and Certified Accountants; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority (2008-2013); Former Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2012-2016); Member, Institute of Leadership and Management; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers; Associate Full Member, Institute of Directors.

Dr Asim Siddiqui

MB ChB, MSc, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant, NHS; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons (England); Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh); Member, British Orthopaedic Association (BOA); Member, British Association of Surgery for the Knee (BASK).

Dr Anup Singh 

BSc, MB ChB, CCT (General Practice)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Locum GP since 2016; Medical Tribunal Member, Social Entitlement Chamber; Former GP, Prison Medicine; Former Salaried GP; Member, Medical Protection Society. 

Dr Shopitha Sivaranjan

MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Salaried GP, Holland Park Surgery, London since 2023; Locum GP, London; Former Locum GP (Various locations), London (2018-2023); Former Salaried GP, Ruislip (2021-2022); Former Salaried GP, Hillingdon (2021); Former GP Trainee, London (2015-2018); Former Locum SHO (Various Hospitals), London (2014-2015); Former Foundation Doctor, Essex and East London (2011-2013); Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Tim (Timothy) Skelton

BSc (London University)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Social Work England; Panel Member, Fitness to Practise, Health Care Service Corporation; Former Senior NHS Management posts, South of England (1991-2007).

Dr Neil Smart 

MBChB, BSc (Hons), FCAI, MBA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Anaesthetist, NHS Glasgow and Clyde; Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Glasgow; Chair, Scottish Health Technologies Council, Healthcare Improvement Scotland; Member, Interim Devices Working Group, MHRA; Former Adviser, European Commission, Medical Devices and In-Vitro Diagnostic Devices; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Association of Anesthetists, Great Britain and Ireland; Member, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS).

Dr Alan Smith

BSc (Hons), MB ChB, MPhil, MRCPsych

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Mental Health); Specialist Member, Parole Board for England and Wales; Former Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northampton (April 2020 – March 2021); Member, Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Ms Kerry Smith

LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Barrister; Trustee, Bone Sarcoma Peer Support; Member/Associate, Bone Cancer Research Trust; Member, Bar Council.

Mr Michael Smith

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Senior Crown Advocate, Yorkshire and Humberside Crown Prosecution Service; Fee-Paid First-Tier Immigration Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice.

Ms Deborah Spring 

BA (Hons) (Cantab), MA (London), MA (UEA)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Former Magistrate, West and Central Hertfordshire; Former Lay Tribunal Member, Bar Tribunals and Adjudication Service; Former Justice of the Peace, West and Central Herts; Former Trustee, Victim Support. 

Dame Nicola Stephenson DBE 

M.Ed, B.Ed

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; CEO, Valour Multi Academy Trust; Member, National Association of Head Teachers.

Mrs Alison Storey

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Senior Specialist Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).

Mr Jonathan Storey

MA, MSc (Oxon)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister; Lay Panel Member & Chair, Fitness to Practice Committee, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member and Chair, Fitness to Practice Panel, Social Care Wales; Legally Qualified Adviser, Police Misconduct Tribunals; Regional Director, Lawyers' Christian Fellowship; Former Chair, Standards Committee, Salford City Council; Former Independent Person, Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP) Council; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Member, Criminal Bar Association.

Dr Euan Strachan-Orr 

BSc (Med Sci) (Hons), MB ChB, MRCGP

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Greenbank Road Surgery, Liverpool; Bank GP and Clinical Coordinator, Primary Care 24; Bank GP, Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Agenda Committee Member, Conference of UK Local Medical Committees; Member, Liverpool LMC; Interviewer and OSCE Examiner, University of Liverpool MBChB Course; Honorary Treasurer and Board Member, Royal College of General Practitioners Mersey Faculty; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.

Mr Colin Sturgeon 

BA (Hons), MSc

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Member, Registration and Fitness to Practise Committee, Northern Ireland Social Care Council; School Governor, Special School.

Mrs Helena Suffield-Thompson 

BA (Hons)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Tribunal Judge, Ministry of Justice; Foster Panel Chair, Five Rivers; Former Panel Member, Health and Care Professions Council (2014 – 2017).

Ms Louise Sweet KC

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister, King's Counsel.

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Ms Bushra Tabassum

LLM (Employment Law), LLB (Law)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Independent Parole Board Member and Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Ministry of Justice; Former Legal Adviser (Crime, Family, and Civil), HM Courts and Tribunals Service; Former Legal Adviser, Independent Monitoring Authority.

Dr Michelle Taggart

MBChB, DRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Examiner, Bradford District; Associate Fellow, Royal College of Emergency Medicine; Former Associate Specialist in Emergency Medicine, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Former Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Mrs Lorna Taylor

RN, BSc

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2023; Registrant Panel Member, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Lay Adjudicator, Social Work England; Lay Panel Member, Scottish Social Services Council; Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunal Scotland (Glasgow); Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunal England and Wales (North-West); Former Nurse Practitioner, Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Trust; Member, Royal College of Nursing.

Mrs Jacqueline Telfer

BA, MA (Social Work), CQSW, Dip (Public Services Management)

Lay 

Tribunal Member since 2014; General Visitor, Court of Protection (COP); Registrant Adjudicator, Social Work England; Former Non-Executive Director, University Hospitals of Morecombe Bay NHS Trust.

Miss Gillian Temple-Bone

BA (Hons) (Law), MA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister since 1978.

Dr Nagarajah Theva (Thevamanoharan) 

MRCGP, MBBS, LMSSA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Medical Member, First-Tier Social Security Appeals Tribunal, HM Court Tribunal Service.

Dr Kate Thomas

MBChB, BSc, FRCR

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2015; Consultant Radiologist, NHS Fife.

Mr Duncan Toole

LLB, Higher Rights of Audience (Criminal Courts)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Principal Legal Adviser for Enforcement, Office for Students; Mentor at General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) via Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers (ARDL); Former Senior Regulatory Enforcement Lawyer (Ofsted); Member, ARDL.

Dr Joanne Topping

MBChB, FRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Specialist Advisor (Maternity), Care Quality Commission; Bank Vaccinator (COVID-19), St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospital NHS Trust; Former Consultant Obstetrician, Former Associate Medical Director and Former Responsible Officer, Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust; Former Trustee and Treasurer, Female Mutilation National Clinical Group (Charity); Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

Dr Alice Trant

MBChB, MRCP, DTM&H

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; HIV and Medical Specialist Registrar (SpR), Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Former Senior House Officer (SHO) and SpR, Barts Health NHS Trust and Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr Alexander Trent

BA

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2025; Recorder (Crime), Ministry of Justice; Deputy District Judge (Civil and Family), Ministry of Justice; Fee-Paid First-Tier Tribunal Judge, Immigration and Asylum Chamber, Ministry of Justice; Legally Qualified Person, Police Misconduct Panels.

Mr Niamat Tullah

MRPharmS

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Director, Shukr Consulting Limited.

Mr Richard Tutt

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Barrister at Law; Self-Employed Barrister, Pump Court Chambers; Recorder, Western Circuit.

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Mr David Urpeth 

LLB (Hons), PG Dip (Legal Practice)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Assessor, Personal Injury Panel, The Law Society; Retired Barrister, Bank House Chambers Sheffield; Retired HM Coroner, The Coroner Service; Former Non-Executive, Chesterfield Royal Hospital. 

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Dr Richard Vautrey

MB ChB (Hons), MRCGP, DRCOG, DCH

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; GP Partner, Meanwood Group Practice; Clinical Director, Central North Leeds Primary Care Network; Assistant Medical Secretary, Leeds Local Medical Committee; GP Appraiser, NHS England; Primary Medical Services Partner Representative, West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board; President, Royal College of General Practitioners; Elected Member, Royal College of General Practitioners Council; Elected Member, British Medical Association Council; Member, BMA GP Committee; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners.

Dr Meenakshi Verma

MBChB, MRCP (London), ECEPC

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Registrar, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust; Specialist Registrar, Dermatology; Honorary Clinical Tutor, University of Birmingham since 2012; Former Honorary Clinical Lecturer, University of Birmingham (2012-2013); Member, British Association of Dermatologists; Member, Dowling Club; Member, British Society for Dermatological Surgery (BSDS); Member, European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Defence Union.

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Mrs Sue Wadham

BSc (Hons), PGCE, Dip (Clin Psych)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Former Panellist, Fitness to Practise, Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008-2016); Former Director of Specialist Services, North Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Partnership Trust.

Mr Andrew Waite

PPQ

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; Lay Member, General Dental Council; Director of Rugby and Academy Chair, Andover Rugby Football Club; Retired Detective Chief Inspector, Hampshire Constabulary; Retired Member, Police Federation.

Mrs Judith Walker OBE

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2002; Solicitor; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council; Legal Adviser, Social Work England; Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, East Midlands, Crown Prosecution Service (2007-2013); Former Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service, South Yorkshire (1999-2007); Member, Law Society.

Mr Gerry Wareham

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Barrister at Law; Member, Governance, Audit and Scrutiny Committee, Humberside Fire and Rescue Service; Joint Independent Audit Committee, Humberside Police Force; Chair of Trustees, Young People Count (registered charity); Former, Chief Crown Prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service.

Mrs Tehniat Watson

LLB, LLM

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Anti-Discrimination Judicial Panel Member, the Football Association; Senior Solicitor Advocate, Child Protection and Adoption, Luton Borough; LQC, Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime; LQC, West Midlands Police; LQC, Avon and Somerset Police; LQC, Gloucestershire Police; Chair, Investigation Committee, General Chiropractic Council; Legal Advisor, Social Work England; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Arbitrator & Panel Member, UK Athletics; Chair & Senior Member, Valuation Tribunal; Former Associate Financial Ombudsman, Financial Ombudsman Service; Former Principal Solicitor; Member, National Association of Legally Qualified Chairs; Member, Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers.

Mrs Amanda Webster

LLB (Hons), DIP ClinNeg

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Deputy District Judge (Civil and Family); Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal; Lay Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council; QA Lead, Quality Assurance Board, Witness Intermediary Service; Vice Chair, Red Rose Recovery.

Mr Andrew Webster KC

LLB (Hons), DLP

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2010; Queens Council; Part-time Sheriff, Scottish Judiciary; Chair, Police Appeals Tribunal, Scottish Judiciary; Legal Member, Pensions Appeal Tribunal, Scottish Judiciary; Legal Member, First-Tier Tribunal, Social Security Chamber, Scotland; Legally Qualified Chair, Scottish Social Services Council; Legal Assessor, General Osteopathic Council; Independent Reviewer of Complaints, Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board, Ireland; Independent Examiner of Complaints, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland; External Examiner, University of Glasgow; Director, Faculty Services Limited; Former Chair, Ministerial Panel under NHS Scotland Consultant Grade Contract Terms of Service; Advocate, Faculty of Advocates.

Mr Chris Weigh KPM

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2014; FTP Panellist, General Dental Council; Retired Deputy Chief Constable, Lancashire Constabulary.

Mr Julian Weinberg

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2017; Legal Assessor since 2017; Solicitor; Higher Court Advocate (Criminal); Legally Qualified Chair, General Pharmaceutical Council; Legally Qualified Chair, Phone-paid Services Agency; Legally Qualified Chair, Mayors Office for Policing and Crime Police Disciplinary Panel; Legal Assessor, General Dental Council; Legal Assessor, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC); Tribunal Clerk, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries; Independent External Auditor, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS); Consultant, Shaw Graham Kersh Solicitors; Trustee, The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund; Former Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Chair, General Teaching Council; Former Adjudicator, Solicitors Regulation Authority; Former Third Party Reviewer, Architects Registration Board (ARB); Former Case Examiner, General Optical Council; Former LQC, Architects Registration Board (ARB); Former Chair, Disciplinary Panel, RICS.

Dr Nigel Westwood

MA, MSc, PhD, FIBMS

Lay

Tribunal Chair since 2015; Tribunal Member since 2014; Adjudication Panel Chair, Solicitor's Regulation Authority; Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel and Inspector, Education Quality Assurance, Social Work England; Independent Panel Member, Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime; Non-Legal Member, Employment Tribunals, HM Courts & Tribunal Service; Former Consultant Biomedical Scientist, King's College London; Former Lay Member and Chair, Fitness to Practise Panel, Nursing and Midwifery Council; Former Registrant Education Visitor, Fitness to Practise Panel Member and Registration Assessor, Health & Care Professions Council; Former Specialist Adviser, Care Quality Commission; Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences.

Ms Jayne Wheat

LLB (Hons)

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2019; Legal Assessor since 2019; Tribunal Chair since 2016; Tribunal Member since 2014; Legally Qualified Person (LQP), Police Misconduct North West Region; Lay Chair and Member, Fitness to Practise Committee, General Optical Council since 2015; Lay Panel Chair, Social Work England since 2019; Legal Assessor, Nursing and Midwifery Council since 2023; Legal Adviser, General Dental Council since January 2024; Former Lay Member, British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (2017-2022); Former First-Tier Fee-Paid Tribunal Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber (2020-2023); Former Fee-Paid Judge, Employment Tribunal (2020-2023); Former Legal Adviser, HM Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS), Criminal and Family Law (1996-2011).

Mr Graham White

LLB

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2015, Legal Assessor since 2015; Solicitor; Judicial Member, Parole Board, England and Wales; Lay Chair, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA); Lay Chair, General Optical Council; Lay Chair, Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service; Panel Member and Chair, HS2 and Heathrow Airport Compensation Panels.

Dr Richard Whiteside

MB BCh, DCH, DRCOG, PGDip (Clinical Forensic Medicine), MFFLM, MRCGP, BL

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; GP Partner, Comber Family Practice; GP Trainer, Northern Ireland Medical & Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA); Forensic Medical Officer, Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI); Medical Member, Medical Appeals Tribunal, Belfast; Board Member, ARDS GP Federation; Former GP Partner, Bangor Health Centre, 2010-2013; Former GP Partner, Castlereagh Medical Centre, 2004-2009; Former Locum GP, Northern Ireland, 2001-2004; Former Barrister, Inn of Court of Northern Ireland, 1995-2000; Member, British Medical Association.

Mr Julian Williams

MBChB, MD, FRCS

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, Nottingham University Hospital; Internal Professional Adviser (Surgery), Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Association Coloproctology Great Britain and Ireland; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Dr Theodore Willison-Parry

BSc (Hons), MBBS, MPhil

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Speciality Doctor in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Chief Medical Officer, Biosimax Lifesciences; Former Foundation Doctor, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (2016-2018); Former Locally Employed Doctor, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (2018); Former Core Anaesthetists Trainee, Health Education England (2019-2021); Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Medical Protection Society. 

Dr Mark Wilshere

MBChB, MRCGP, DCH, BSc (Hons)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; GP Partner, Quayside Medical Practice; Member, West Pennine Local Medical Committee.

Dr Billy (William) Wilson

MBChB, BSc (Hons), FRCA

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Anaesthetic Registrar, Northwest School of Anaesthesia (since 2021); Former Foundation Programme Doctor, Royal Bolton Hospital (2014-2016); Former Clinical Fellow (Intensive Care Medicine), Royal Bolton Hospital (2016-2017); Former Anaesthetic Core Trainee, Northwest School of Anaesthesia (2017-2019); Former Intensive Care Registrar, Royal Adelaide Hospital (2019-2020); Former Clinical Fellow (Intensive Care/Anaesthesia), Royal Bolton Hospital (2020-2021); Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Royal College of Anaesthetists; Member, Association of North Western Intensive Care Units.

Dr Ann Wolton

MBChB, DCH, MRCPsych, LLM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2016; Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Somerset Foundation Trust; Second Opinion Appointed Doctor (SOAD), Care Quality Commission (CQC); Member, Safeguarding and Protection Committee, Lawn Tennis Association; Member, British Medical Association (BMA).

Ms Emily Wood KC

MA (Cantab), BCL (Oxon)

Lay

Tribunal Member since 2023; Barrister, Essex Court Chambers; Member, COMBAR. 

Mr Richard Wood

BA (Hons) (History), BVC

Lay

Legally Qualified Chair since 2022; Fee-Paid Judge, Social Entitlement Chamber; Fee-Paid Judge Employment Tribunal Former Barrister.

Dr Sarah Woodford

MA, MB, BChir, MRCGP, MPH, DFPH, DOccMed, DFSRH, RCPathME

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023; General Visitor, Court of Protection; Medical Examiner, Warrington & Halton Hospitals; GP Locum, Morecambe Bay CCG; GP Appraiser, NHS England North West; Specialist Advisor, Royal College of General Practitioners; Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal (Social Security and Child Support); Fee-Paid Medical Member, First-Tier Tribunal Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit; Regional Medical Appraiser, North-West Region; Former Medical Examiner, UHMBT (2020-2022); Former Complaints Advisor, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (2020-2022); Former GP Complaints Reviewer & Clinical Investigator, NHS England North-West (2018-2021); Former CQC Specialist Advisor, National QA Panel (2014-2021); Former GP Partner, Station House Surgery, Kendal (2006-2016); GP Research Champion, National Institute for Health and Care Research (2012-2015); Former GP Adult Safeguarding Lead, NHS Cumbria (2012-2013); GP Registrar (2004-2005); Specialist Registrar, Public Health (2002-2004); Former SHO, Training in Psychiatry (Leeds, Wakefield & Pontefract); Former SHO, Training in General Medicine (Norfolk & Norwich); Sign/BTS Asthma Guidelines (2014); NHS 111 Covid Clinical Assessment Service (South-Central Ambulance) (2020-2022); Coach, North-East and Yorkshire Leadership Academy; Coach, North-West Leadership Academy; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Royal College of Pathologists; Member, Medical Protection Society.

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Dr Farah Yusuf

MBChB, MRCGP, MFFLM, FFFLM

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2012; Forensic Physician, St Mary’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) contracted to Greater Manchester Police, and Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Tutor and Trainer of Forensic Examiners and Allied Professionals; Examiner and Fellow, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal College of Physicians; PLAB Examiner, GMC; Former General Practitioner, Manchester.

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Dr Amir Zafar

MRCGP, MBBCh, ACA, DRCOG, DCH, BSc (Econ)

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2019; Partner, Charles Road Surgery, Birmingham; Member, Royal College of General Practitioners; Member, Association of Chartered Accountants; Member, British Medical Association.

Dr Jamal (Syed) Zaidi

MBBS, MRCOG, MD, FRCOG

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2023: Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Visiting Consultant, Sussex Premier Health; Visiting Consultant, Agora Clinic Sussex; Advisor, NHS England; Assessor, NHS Resolution; Former Assistant Medical Director and Former Deputy Responsible Officer, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (2013-2023); Member, British Fertility Society; Member, British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy; Member, British Medical Association; Member, Medical Protection Society; Member, Expert Witness Institute.

Dr Muhammad Zamir

BSc, MBBS, FRCR, EBIR, GDL, BPC

Registrant

Tribunal Member since 2025; Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist, NHS Hertfordshire and Spire Hospitals Northwest London; Member, British Medical Association (BMA); Member, Royal College of Radiologists (RCR).