The Legal Services Board has 8 members and a Board apprentice.
About the Board
Catherine Brown (Interim Chair – Lay)
Catherine Brown is an experienced non-executive and chief executive who has worked in the private and public sectors. She has a wide interest in effective regulation – having previously been CEO of the Food Standards Agency and currently serving as a Board member of Natural Resources Wales, where she also chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. Catherine has been appointed as the first Chair of the Enforcement Conduct Board, which is a new independent oversight body for the civil enforcement sector.
Catherine has an interest in diversity and inclusion, having been vice chair of the Wellcome Trust advisory group on increasing diversity and inclusion in science, and having previously served an Equal Opportunities Commissioner. Catherine is Chair of mySociety – a non profit that pioneers the use of on line technologies in the cause of civic participation, and is also Chair of hubbub – a charity that works with corporates to support behaviour change in the interests of the environment. Catherine is a qualified coach with a board level practice and also carries out consultancy work supporting organisations to improve their governance and leadership arrangements.
Term of Appointment
- 01 April 2023 – 31 March 2027
- 01 April 2019 – 31 March 2023
Catherine Brown
Richard Orpin, Interim Chief Executive and Board Member
Richard joined the LSB in 2023. Before being appointed Interim Chief Executive in 2025, Richard was Director, Regulation & Policy, leading the policy, strategy, research and regulatory teams at the Legal Services Board.
Prior to joining the LSB, Richard spent nine years at Ofcom, where he worked on telecommunications, media and postal services policy. He has also held roles in central government, including as Head of Domestic Gambling Policy at the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.
Richard Orpin
Habib Motani (Member – Non Lay)
Habib Motani qualified as a solicitor in 1980. He is a Consultant to Clifford Chance LLP, having spent over 30 years as a partner in the firm’s banking and finance practice. He is a Honorary Professor at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Trustee at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, The Institute of Ismaili Studies and The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom. He is also a member of the Steering Group of the Canary Wharf Multi-faith Chaplaincy.
Term of Appointment
- 18 April 2022 – 17 April 2026
Habib Motani
Dr Gary Kildare (Member – Lay)
Dr Gary Kildare is the former Chief HR Officer Europe and Global Head of Labour Relations for the IBM Corporation. He is an Independent Non-Executive for Crowe UK a leading audit, tax, advisory and risk firm and a member of The Public Interest Committee. He is also a Non-Executive Director to The Insolvency Service; a Non-Executive Director for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Chair of the People Committee; a board member of The British Quality Foundation; a Board Advisor and mentor with Criticaleye the leadership peer to peer board community; and a member of The Court of Heriot-Watt University. Gary is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a visiting professor in Business at Edinburgh Napier Business School.
Term of Appointment
- 01 April 2021 -31 March 2025
- 01 April 2025 – 31 March 2029
Dr Gary Kildare
Flora Page (Member – Non-lay)
Flora Page KC has been both a solicitor and a barrister. In 1996, she joined Clifford Chance, qualifying as a solicitor in 1998. She worked for the Law Commission, the University of Law, and ultimately established her own firm, Old Bailey Solicitors. Having obtained higher rights of audience in 2002, in 2013 she cross-qualified as a barrister, and joined 23 Essex Street Chambers. Her practice focusses on financial and corporate wrongdoing. Flora also had a period at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she has worked in both enforcement and consumer redress policy development.
Flora is Chair of the Institute of Business Ethics. She is also a part-time PhD student at University College London, researching corporate integrity. She was a long-serving committee member of the Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates, and then a member of the Executive of the Criminal Bar Association. She has been a member of the 23 Essex Street Equality and Diversity Committee, and a Financial Conduct Authority Equality and Diversity Superuser.
Term of Appointment
- 1 August 2020 – 31 July 2024
- 1 August 2024 – 31 July 2028
Flora Page
Lizzie Peers (Member – Lay)
Lizzie Peers has over nine years’ experience as a Non-Executive Director across a variety of national and local organisations including the University Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, the Ministry of Justice, DEFRA, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England. She has over 20 years of experience as an external auditor and regulator with the Audit Commission and Ernst and Young LLP.
Term of Appointment
- 1 October 2023 – 30 September 2027
Lizzie Peers
Clare Brown (Member – Non Lay)
Clare is a Barrister at 2 Temple Gardens. She is on the Treasury A Panel and is frequently instructed by the Government in high profile public law cases. She formerly worked for the European Court of Human Rights and for the Ombudsman of Human rights in Bosnia. Clare is also a senior lecturer on the Bar Course at City Law School, University of London.
Term of Appointment
- 1 June 2023 – 31 May 2027
Clare Brown
Christine Nwaokolo (non-lay member)
Christine qualified as a solicitor in 2011 and since then she has specialised in family law. She is a Law Society Children Accredited Panel Member and has Higher Rights of Audience in Civil Law. Christine has worked at various high street firms where she has been appointed to leadership roles such as managing teams, supervising trainee solicitors, and managing Legal Aid Contracts.
Most recently, she has moved into undertaking legal work as a Consultant Solicitor, a role which will her enable her to continue her passion for court advocacy as well as manage a caseload of childcare cases.
Christine has also worked for two local authorities: London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the London Borough of Lewisham. At Lewisham she was a senior lawyer and the lead court advocate.
Alongside a legal career, Christine has developed her practice in panel decision making roles. In 2022, she became an Independent Lay Chair for the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Fitness to Practice Hearings. In 2023, Christine was appointed as a Legally Qualified Chair of Police Misconduct Hearings, for the Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime.
Term of Appointment
- 1 May 2024 until 30 April 2028
Christine Nwaokolo
Committees
Audit and Risk Assurance Committee
The Audit and Risk Assurance Committee is responsible for ensuring the maintenance of appropriate audit and risk processes within the organisation and the governance of the internal audit and external audit programmes.
Members
- Lizzie Peers (Chair)
- Dr Gary Kildare
- Clare Brown
- Marta Philips – Independent Lay Non-Voting Member
LSB Audit and Risk Committee – Terms of Reference (pdf, 49kb)
Remuneration and Nomination Committee (RNC)
The Remuneration and Nomination Committee is responsible for the overall remuneration approach and policy relating to all members of staff at the LSB and helps with succession planning for the Board and its committees.
Members
LSB Remuneration and Nomination Committee – Terms of Reference (pdf, 52kb)