The Ministry of Justice and Legal Services Board (LSB) today announced the appointments of Kate Briscoe and Lizzie Peers as new lay members of the Board of the LSB. Barrister Clare Brown has also been appointed as a new non-lay member of the Board.
The appointments were made by the Lord Chancellor in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice in accordance with the Legal Services Act 2007.
Kate Briscoe and Clare Brown have been appointed from 1 June 2023 for four years. Lizzie Peers has been appointed from 1 October 2023 for four years.
Non-Lay member Jemima Coleman will step down from the Board on 31 May 2023, having served two terms.
The LSB’s Chair, Alan Kershaw, said:
‘I am delighted to welcome Kate Briscoe, Clare Brown and Lizzie Peers to the Board. Their range of professional experience will bolster the Board’s breadth of knowledge and diversity of thought. We look forward to benefiting from their invaluable contribution to our ambition to better connect people and small businesses with legal services.
‘I would like to extend my sincere thanks and that of the whole Board to Jemima Coleman, who steps down from the Board at the end of May following two terms of office. Jemima’s contribution to legal services regulation over the seven years she has been a Board member has been considerable, with some very challenging decisions. We wish Jemima all the very best for the future’.
Biographies
Kate Briscoe is the CEO and Co-Founder of LegalBeagles; the UK’s largest legal advice forum as well as JustBeagle; an independent search and legal comparison site to directly connect consumers to 10,000 regulated law firms across England and Wales. She has served as an expert panel member for the Solicitors Regulation Authority and, as a consumer rights advocate and consumer litigator, at Howlett Clarke Solicitors.
Clare Brown 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.
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.