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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, 12 March 2015

 

Legal Services Board announces new Board Member

The Ministry of Justice and the Legal Services Board (LSB) today announced the appointment of Dr Helen Phillips (lay member) as a new non-executive Board Member for a three year term with effect from 9 March 2015.

The appointment was made by the Lord Chancellor in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, in accordance with the Legal Services Act 2007.

Chairman of the Legal Services Board, Sir Michael Pitt said:

"“I am delighted to welcome Helen to the Board. Her skills and experience will make a valuable contribution to our work in modernising legal services delivery and in developing a forward-looking agenda of regulatory reform.”

ENDS
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Notes for editors:

  1. Dr Helen Phillips is the Chair elect of Chesterfield Royal NHS Foundation Trust (1 April 2015). She is also a member of the Sheffield Business School Advisory Board.

    Previously she was the Director of Customer Service and Networks with Yorkshire Water and Chair of Loop Customer Management Ltd, a Kelda Group subsidiary.

    Prior to this she was Chief Executive and Board Member at Natural England. She was employed by the Environment Agency, in a variety of roles including Head of Strategy and most recently as Director, Wales.

  2. This appointment is from 9 March 2015 to 31 March 2018. It carries a remuneration of £15,000 per annum for at least 30 days work.

  3. The Ministry of Justice’s announcement can be found here.

  4. This appointment was made in accordance with the Code of Practice of the Commissioner for Public Appointments.

  5. The roles were advertised publicly in the national press and the executive search firm GatenbySanderson were engaged by the Ministry of Justice to assist in a search exercise to complement the advertising.

  6. The Legal Services Act 2007 (the Act) created the LSB as a new regulator with responsibility for overseeing the regulation of legal services in England and Wales. The new regulatory regime became active on 1 January 2010.

  7. The LSB oversees nine approved regulators, which in turn regulate individual legal practitioners. The approved regulators, designated under Part 1 of Schedule 4 of the Act, are the Law Society, the Bar Council, the Master of the Faculties, the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys, the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys, the Association of Costs Lawyers and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

    In addition, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants are listed as approved regulators in relation only to reserved probate activities.

  8. As at 1 April 2014, the legal profession comprised 138,243 solicitors, 326 alternative business structures, 15,279 barristers, 7,927 chartered legal executives and 5,404 other individuals operating in other areas of the legal profession such as conveyancing. The sector was valued at £29.2 billion in 2013 (total turnover).