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Ayesha Vardag Solicitors

Legal Manager, Charities and Voluntary Sector Unit, Burton Sweet, Chartered Accountants Cecile specialises in company secretarial administration, company law and charity law. She has particular experience in relation to social enterprises, charities and other "not-for-profits", as well as private share companies. Cecile has served on a number of ICSA and Charity Law Association working parties. She is co-author of Jordans Company Secretarial Precedents (6th ed) and a general editor of, and contributor to, Jordans Charities Administration Service (both Jordans).

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Solicitor David is co-author of the forthcoming new edition of The Company Director: Powers, Duties and Liabilities (11th ed), and is also co-author of Modern Law of Meetings, (2nd ed). He is also contributor to Jordans Company Administration and Governance. (all Jordans)

Nicholas has been a District Judge for 23 years and is Chair of the Voice of the Child sub-committee of the Family Justice Council. He works in eastern Europe and Ethiopia developing child protection systems.

Nominated Judge of the Court of Protection Visiting Professor, School of Law, Northumbria University Gordon was appointed a District Judge at Preston in 1992 after 28 years in general legal practice in Cumbria. He now sits part-time at small courts in south Cumbria. He is currently a Vice-President at the Association of Law Costs Draftsmen, a patron for Solicitors for the Elderly, has previously served as a tutor judge at the Judicial Studies Board (2000-2009) and as part-time Chair of Social Security Appeals Tribunal (1985-2001). ...

Barnet Civil and Family Court Centre Nominated Judge of the Court of Protection Marc sits at Barnet Civil and Family Court Centre. As a nominated Judge at the Court of Protection he sits regularly at the court in Archway where he is also involved in the development of the practice and procedure of the new Court of Protection. Marc has written for the Law Society Gazette and contributes to Practical Civil Court Precedents and the Court of Protection Practice 2010 (Jordans).

Barrister, Harcourt Chambers Edward Devereux practises in all areas of family law. He is very well-known for his work relating to the international movement of children and, in particular, child abduction. Edward appeared in the House of Lords for the successful appellant mother in the leading child abduction case in recent years, Re M(Abduction: Zimbabwe) [2007] UKHL 55, [2007] 3 WLR 975, [2008] 1 FLR 251; for the successful appellant father in the European Court of Human Rights, in C v Switzerland, (November 2008); ...

Housing Consultant and Lecturer, University of Westminster Ian is a full-time housing consultant and trainer specialising in housing policy and law and the development of cohesive communities. He has extensive experience of the issues that anti-social behaviour raises for communities and professionals, and the ways organisations can improve their responses in this area. Ian has advised many local authorities and registered social landlords and researched the role of alcohol in antisocial behaviour and multi-agency responses to ASB problems.

Garden Court Chambers

Barrister, Harcourt Chambers John Vater joined Harcourt Chambers (London & Oxford) in 1995 and has developed a specialist practice in public and private law children’s work. Since 2004 John has been recognised as a leading practitioner in children’s law by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners, which in 2009 described him as ‘one of the most gifted cross – examiners you will see in a courtroom’. ...

Barrister, Broadway House Cha

1 Garden Court Judith Rowe QC is a leading member of the Family Bar specialising in the law relating to children. She was called to the Bar in 1979, made a Recorder in 1999, took silk in 2003 and was appointed Deputy High Court Judge of the Family Division in 2005. She has appeared in a number of reported cases. Throughout her time as a senior junior and in silk, she has been recognised as a leader in her field. She is a member of 1, Garden Court, one of the leading specialist family law chambers. ...

Partner, Sayer Vincent Kate has been working with charities for over 25 years and advises them on a range of finance, tax, governance and management issues, as well as auditing them. Her work involves consultancy and training in the largest charities, as well as support for new and much smaller charities and social enterprises.

Barrister, 1 King's Bench Walk Madeleine has a wide family practice with a particular interest children law. She is co-author of Child Care and Adoption: A Practical Guide and Update Editor of Hershman and McFarlane: Children Law and Practice (both Family Law).

Director and co-founder, Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Oxford University Mavis Maclean has carried out Socio Legal research in Oxford since 1974, and is now joint Director of OXFLAP. She has acted as the Academic Adviser to the Ministry of Justice since 1997, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law and was elected a Trustee of the Law and Society Association in 2000. Her research interests are family law and family policy, particularly from a comparative perspective.

Head of Chambers, 29 Bedford Row

Barrister, 29 Bedford Row

PV Solutions A non-practising solicitor who is a consultant company secretary, Peter is author of the recently published second edition of Companies Act 2006: A Guide for Private Companies, co-author of Jordans Company Secretarial Precedents (6th ed) and contributor to Jordans Company Administration and Governance (all Jordans).

Head of Chambers, 1 Hare Court

Partner, Horwath Clark Whitehill Robert has extensive VAT knowledge of the not-for-profit sector specifically in the charity, schools and trade unions sector. His experience covers not only the obvious issues of business activities and partial exemption, but crucially how VAT impacts on any transaction in relation to land and property where the VAT at stake is often considerable. Robert is a member of the VAT Practitioners Group and the Charity Tax Reform Group and a regular speaker on VAT and charities.

Partner, Mills & Reeve

Deputy Children’s Commissioner for England, Sue Berelowitz, has a wealth of experience across children’s services. Sue, also the chief executive of 11 MILLION, enjoyed a highly successful career in local government children’s services across a number of authorities in the south east. ...