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

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

Sir Alex Allan - (chair to 2021)

  • Honorary Bencher, Inner Temple
  • Trustee, Treloar Trust
  • Board member, Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

Christina Blacklaws

  • Chair of LawTech UK Panel
  • Chair of Next Generation Services Advisory Group of UKRI
  • Head of Faculty of Legal Technology and Innovation Institute
  • Council member of the International Bar Association
  • UK President for World Jurist Association

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
  • National adviser on selection to the Church of England Future Clergy Review
  • Visiting professor, University of Chichester Business School

Rachel Langdale QC

  • Barrister, 7 Bedford Row, London
  • Bencher, Middle Temple
  • Member of JUSTICE, Family Law Bar Association and Midland Circuit

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

  • Chancellor of University of Sheffield

Rosemary Rollason

  • Sole principal RJ Rollason Law
  • Legal Assessor for RICS, Health Professions Council and General Dental Council
  • Convener, Financial Reporting Council
  • Panel Member, Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy
  • Member of The Law Society
  • Member of The Association of Regulatory & Disciplinary Lawyers

Dr Maggie Semple OBE

  • Trustee – South Bank Arts Centre
  • Director – The Experience Corps Ltd
  • Director – Maggie Semple Ltd
  • Non-Executive Direction of Jamaica National Bank UK
  • Member of University of Cambridge HR Committee
  • Director – I-Cubed Group Ltd.
  • Member – BAFTA Commercial Committee
  • Non Executive Director – PwC Business Restructuring Services

Monisha Shah (Chair from 2022)

  • Non-executive Board member, Office for Students
  • Member, Content Board, Ofcom
  • Independent Director, Next Mediaworks Plc (India)
  • Trustee, ArtFund
  • Director, Hogerty Hill Limited
  • Trustee, Donmar Warehouse
  • Trustee, Caterham School
  • Senior Independent Member (Chair) of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Commencing April 2021)
  • Chair-elect of the Board of Wikimedia UK, Chair from 1 October 2021
  • Chair of Wikimedia UK

HH Phillip Sycamore CBE

  • Member of the Judicial Appointments Commission Targeted Outreach Programme (as a former Senior Commissioner)
  • Member of the General Dental Council’s Statutory Panellists Assurance Committee
  • Member of the Council of the University of Lancaster
  • Sports Arbitrator (Sport Resolutions (UK) Panel of Arbitrators and a Specialist Panel Member, Judicial Panel of the Football Association)

Andrew Walker QC

  • Barrister, Maitland Chambers, London
  • Bencher, Lincoln’s Inn
  • Recorder – Crime
  • Member of Chancery Bar Association, Property Bar Association, Professional Negligence Bar Association, Commercial Bar Association, Financial Services Lawyers Association
  • Member, PNBA Adjudication Panel
  • Chair, Trinity Law Association