PIBA EC Committee


 

Officers:    
Chair Sarah Crowther KC Outer Temple Chambers
Vice-Chair Martyn McLeish Cloisters
Treasurer Mat Brunning  Temple Garden Chambers
Secretary Richard Wilkinson Temple Garden Chambers
Assistant Secretary Kane Simons 18 St John Street
Membership Officer Bruno Gil Old Square Chambers
Minutes Secretary John Platts-Mills Devereux Chambers
PIBA Bar Council Rep Charlie Woodhouse KC Old Square Chambers
     
Elected Committee Members from 2026 AGM (until 2028 AGM)
Sarah Prager KC Deka Chambers
John Meredith-Hardy   Farrar's Building
Richard Wilkinson  Temple Garden Chambers
Stephen Cottrell Devereux Chambers
Mat Brunning Temple Garden Chambers
Carin Hunt Outer Temple Chambers
   
Elected Circuit Reps (from 2025 AGM until 2027 AGM):
Stuart Jamieson ParkLane Plowden (North Eastern)
James Bentley Guildhall Chambers  (Western)
Lucy Coulson No 5 (Midlands)
Marcus Grant Temple Garden Chambers (South Eastern)
Matthew Hooper  7 Harrington Square (Northern)
Alys Williams Civitas Law (Wales & Chester)
   
Junior Sub-Committee
Holly Girven Farrar's Building (Chair)
Dan Laking 39 Essex Chambers
Marcus Coates-Walker 1 Crown Office Row
Kate Longson Ropewalk Chambers
Anirudh Mandagere Deka Chambers
Spencer Turner 12 KBW

 

Responsible for Events
Annual Conference: Hannah Saxena, Marcus Coates-Walker
Annual Lecture: Stephen Cottrell, John Platts-Mills
Northern Circuit Conference: Matthew Hooper, Chris Gutteridge
London Winter Conference:   Charlie Woodhouse KC, Kathy Howells
Continuing Education:   Spencer Turner, Tom Westwell
Remote Seminars:   Dan Laking, Antonia Ford

 

Co-opted committee members (as at 14.02.2026):

 

Hylton Armstrong

Park Lane Plowden

Judith Ayling KC

39 Essex Chambers

Rehana Azib KC

2 Temple Gardens

Helen Bell

2 Temple Gardens

Leila Benyounes

Park Lane Plowden

James Candlin

12 KBW

Jamie Clarke

Crown Office Chambers

Elliott Clifton-Thompson

No 5

Marcus Coates-Walker

1 Crown Office Row

Emma Corkill

39 Essex

Andrew Davis KC

Crown Office Chambers

Katherine Deal KC

3 Hare Court

Lisa Dobie

1 Chancery Lane

Antonia Ford

Pump Court Chambers

Angela Frost

12 KBW

Bruno Gil

Old Square Chambers

Holly Givern

Farrar's Building

Chris Gutteridge

Exchange Chambers

Laura Hibberd

Deka Chambers

Freddy Lyons

Farrar's Building

Katherine Howells

Old Square Chambers

Samantha Jones

39 Essex Chambers

Ruwena Khan

Park Square

Daniel Laking

39 Essex Chambers

Edward Lamb KC

Deka Chambers

Sarah Lambert KC

1COR

William Latimer-Sayer KC

Cloisters (PIBA rep on the Ogden Committee)

Kate Longson

Ropewalk Chambers

Pankaj Madan

12 KBW

Anirudh Mandagere

Deka Chambers

Martyn McLeish

Cloisters

Meghann McTague

2 Temple Gardens

Jasmine Murphy

Gatehouse Chambers

John Platts-Mills

Devereux

Rachel Russell

St John's Chambers

Hannah Saxena

Farrar’s Building

Shahram Sharghy

1COR

Kane Simons

18 St John Street

Nigel Spencer-Ley

Farrar’s Building

John-Paul Swoboda KC

12 KBW

Spencer Turner

12 KBW

Tom Westwell

Devereux

Richard Whitehall KC

Deans Court

Marc Willems KC

Cobden Chambers

Charlie Woodhouse KC

Old Square Chambers

Emma Zeb KC

Gatehouse Chambers

 

PIBA Administrator: Jo Davies