This page provides information about the declared current and recent interests of members of the Selection Panel.

For further information about a member of the King’s Counsel Selection Panel please click on the relevant name.

Monisha Shah (Chair)

  • Member, Content Board, Ofcom
  • Trustee, ArtFund
  • Director, Hogerty Hill Limited
  • Chair, Caterham School
  • Senior Independent Member (Chair) of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • Chair, Wikimedia UK
  • Trustee, Royal Collection Trust

Christina Blacklaws

  • Chair of LawTech UK Panel
  • Chair of  Judicial Pensions Board
  • Head of Faculty of Legal Technology and Innovation Institute
  • Council member of the International Bar Association
  • Chair of Civil Liberties Trust
  • CEO of Blacklaws Consulting Ltd

Dr Douglas Board

  • Founder/director, Maslow’s Attic Ltd
  • Senior visiting fellow and member of the Centre for Professional Service Firms, Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University of London. From March 2023 took up appointment as co-chair of the Bayes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council
  • Adviser to Oresa (executive search and strategy in the retail and consumer sectors)
  • Visiting professor, University of Chichester Business School

Matthew Chapman KC

  • Personal Injuries Bar Association, Member
  • Professional Negligence Bar Association, Member
  • London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association, Member
  • Travel and Tourism Lawyers’ Association, Member
  • Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn, Member
  • Fee-paid Employment Judge
  • Deka Chambers, London, Member

Dr Katrina Easterling

  • Chartered Companion, the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development
  • External PhD Supervisor, University of Winchester
  • Associate Mental Health Act Manager, Priory Group & Elysium Healthcare
  • Advisory Member, Council of Partners for North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
  • Volunteer Branch Treasurer, University & Colleges Union University of Winchester

Paul Grant

  • Director and Responsible individual – Fostering Dimensions Ltd
  • Non-Executive Director – Cafcass
  • Professional Conduct/Fitness to Practice Panel member roles: Farriers Registration Council; General Osteopathic Council; Bar Standards Board; Social Work England; Nursing & Midwifery Council; British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy; and the Registration Council for Clinical Physiology
  • Member of Test of Competence Assurance Advisory group for the Nursing & Midwifery Council

Sir Paul Morgan

  • Arbitrator and mediator practising from Wilberforce Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, London.

Sara Nathan

  • Tribunal Chair for Social Work England
  • Chair, Regulatory & Conduct Appointments Committee, ICAEW
  • Lay Assessor for GLA Appointments
  • Trustee, Refugees at Home

Dame Anne Rafferty DBE

  • Chancellor of University of Sheffield

Mena Ruparel

  • Member of the National Crime Agency Independent Advisory Group on Ethics
  • Founder/Director of MLSH LTD

Leslie Thomas QC

  • Practicing barrister member of Garden Court Chambers
  • Practicing attorney at JC Legal Solutions Inc. Antigua
  • Independent (co-opted) member on Standards in Public Life Committee for LB of Lewisham
  • Elected member of the council for JUSTICE
  • Bencher to the Inner Temple
  • Chair of EDI Sub Committee of the Inner Temple
  • Appointed barrister member of Bar Standards Board
  • Professor of Law at Gresham College
  • Visiting Professor of Law at Goldsmiths University of London