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The Incorporated Council of LAW Reporting for England and Wales

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Previous officers 104

  1. Sarah Rebecca Sackman 2024-2024 Director View profile
  2. Robert Alexander Courts 2023-2024 Director View profile
  3. Nicholas Paul Emmerson 2023-2024 Director View profile
  4. Victoria Mary Boswell Prentis 2022-2024 Director View profile
  5. Michael Tomlinson 2022-2023 Director View profile
  6. Alex Chalk 2021-2022 Director View profile
  7. Michael Tyrone Ellis 2021-2021 Director View profile
  8. Ingrid Stephanie Boyce 2021-2022 Director View profile
  9. Lucy Frazer 2021-2021 Director View profile
  10. David Michael Greene 2020-2021 Director View profile
  11. Suella Braverman 2020-2022 Director View profile
  12. Professor Paul Peter Mitchell 2019-2021 Director View profile
  13. Simon Ward Davis 2019-2020 Director View profile
  14. Melissa Louise Coutinho 2018-2022 Director View profile
  15. Rt Hon Charles Geoffrey Cox 2018-2020 Director View profile
  16. Christina Blacklaws 2018-2019 Director View profile
  17. Joseph Bernard Egan 2017-2018 Director View profile
  18. Robert Henry Glanville Bourns 2016-2017 Director View profile
  19. Michael Morris Franks 2015-2016 Director View profile
  20. Jonathan Robert Saville Smithers 2015-2016 Director View profile
  21. Carolyn Merton Toulmin 2015-2016 Director View profile
  22. Keith Etherington 2014-2016 Director View profile
  23. Andrew Howard Arthur Caplen 2014-2015 Director View profile
  24. Robert James Buckland 2014-2019 Director View profile
  25. Jeremy Paul Wright 2014-2018 Director View profile
  26. Timothy Christopher Dutton 2014-2018 Director View profile
  27. Nicholas Peter Fluck 2013-2014 Director View profile
  28. Sarah Jane Thomas 2013-2025 Director View profile
  29. Oliver Heald 2012-2014 Director View profile
  30. Sally Elizabeth Smith 2012-2016 Director View profile
  31. Lucy Scott-Moncrieff 2012-2013 Director View profile
  32. John Prier Wotton 2011-2012 Director View profile
  33. John William Calladine 2010-2014 Director View profile
  34. Rt Hon Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve 2010-2014 Director View profile
  35. Lord Edward Henry Garnier 2010-2012 Director View profile
  36. Robert Alan Heslett 2009-2010 Director View profile
  37. Ian David Grainger 2008-2012 Director View profile
  38. Malcolm Gaskell Fowler 2008-2015 Director View profile
  39. Paul Henry Marsh 2008-2009 Director View profile
  40. Lord David Edmond Neuberger 2008-2012 Director View profile
  41. Vera Baird 2007-2010 Director View profile
  42. Baroness Patricia Janet Scotland 2007-2010 Director View profile
  43. William Andrew Myers Holroyd 2007-2008 Director View profile
  44. Catherine Fiona Woolf 2006-2007 Director View profile
  45. Kevin Joseph Martin 2005-2006 Director View profile
  46. Mike O Brien 2005-2007 Director View profile
  47. Toby Julien Anderson Hooper 2004-2007 Director View profile
  48. Simon Angus Graham Leslie Gault 2004-2019 Director View profile
  49. Edward Nally 2004-2005 Director View profile
  50. Carolyn Walton 2004-2019 Director View profile
  51. Quentin Mark Piers Lane 2003-2008 Director View profile
  52. Amanda Jane Tipples 2003-2010 Director View profile
  53. Sir Patrick Elias 2003-2019 Director View profile
  54. Peter John Williamson 2003-2004 Director View profile
  55. Jennifer Jane Eady Qc 2002-2013 Director View profile
  56. Gavin Lightman 2002-2010 Director View profile
  57. Carolyn Kirby 2002-2003 Director View profile
  58. James Michael Turner 2002-2022 Director View profile
  59. David Angus Mcintosh 2001-2002 Director View profile
  60. Harriet Harman 2001-2005 Director View profile
  61. Rt Hon Lord Goldsmith 2001-2007 Director View profile
  62. David Nowell Barnard 2000-2004 Director View profile
  63. William Dawson Ainger 2000-2008 Director View profile
  64. Thomas Michael Napier 2000-2001 Director View profile
  65. Lord Williams of Mostyn 1999-2001 Director View profile
  66. Robert Sayer 1999-2000 Director View profile
  67. Lord John Anthony Dyson 1998-2010 Director View profile
  68. Robert Michael Cochrane Venables 1998-2010 Director View profile
  69. Ross Frederick Cranston 1998-2001 Director View profile
  70. Michael Robert Mathews 1998-1999 Director View profile
  71. Phillip Sycamore 1997-1998 Director View profile
  72. Right Honourable John Morris 1997-1999 Director View profile
  73. Lord Charles Falconer of Thoroton 1997-1998 Director View profile
  74. Laurence James West-Knights 1996-2004 Director View profile
  75. Timothy Hugh William Piper 1996-2018 Director View profile
  76. Right Honourable Lord Peter Julian Millett 1996-1998 Director View profile
  77. John Anthony Girling 1996-1997 Director View profile
  78. Martin Mears 1995-1996 Director View profile
  79. Duncan Matheson 1994-2002 Director View profile
  80. Nicholas Mordaunt Chambers 1994-2013 Director View profile
  81. Richard Charles Elly 1994-1995 Director View profile
  82. Rt Hon Sir Johan Steyn 1993-1996 Director View profile
  83. Right Honourable Sir Richard Joseph Buxton 1993-2008 Director View profile
  84. John Anthony Holland 1993-1995 Director View profile
  85. Rodger Pannone 1993-1994 Director View profile
  86. Oliver Weaver 1994 Director View profile
  87. Mark Hebberton Sheldon 1993 Director View profile
  88. Colin Gwynne Prestige 2003 Director View profile
  89. David Ashton Mcintyre Kemp 2003 Director View profile
  90. Anthony Gordon Guest 2000 Director View profile
  91. David John Jefferson 1993 Director View profile
  92. Lord Nicholas Walter Lyell 1997 Director View profile
  93. Dobry, George Leon Severyn, His Honour Judge 1993 Director View profile
  94. John Maurice Price 1994 Director View profile
  95. Sir Derek Harold Spencer 1997 Director View profile
  96. Alan David Rawley 2014 Director View profile
  97. Paul Vivian Baker 2002 Director View profile
  98. Sir Ian Alexander Kennedy 1998 Director View profile
  99. Rt Hon Sir Robert Megarry 2000 Director View profile
  100. Brian Gordon Murphy 1996 Director View profile
  101. Alan Blair Suckling 1996 Director View profile
  102. Kevin Michael Laws 2008-2025 Secretary View profile
  103. John Richard Cobbett 1997-2008 Secretary View profile
  104. Brian Francis Symondson 1997 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

Incorporated
28/07/1870
Also a registered charity
Incorporated Council of LAW Reporting for England and Wales
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

19 directors on the board

9.1y median 9.7y
average tenure
19.2y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (14)

Portfolio (5)

0
left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Hospitality 2Business services 1Education 1Property 1Retail and trade 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving directors could step down together

Where to look Suggested search: succession planning for long-tenured seats.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00005034
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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