The Legal Services Board (LSB) has appointed Dr Daniel Newman to the Legal Services Consumer Panel (the Consumer Panel). Daniel is a legal academic and has been a Senior Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University since 2015. His research focuses on access to justice.
Daniel will take up the position on 14 March 2022.
The appointment occurs following the resignation of Owen Derbyshire.
Chair of the LSB, Dr Helen Phillips, said:
‘I am pleased to congratulate Daniel on his appointment to the Consumer Panel. His experience, academic expertise, and commitment to increasing access to justice will add significant value to the Panel’s work as it delivers against our shared strategic objectives: Fairer Outcomes, Stronger Confidence, and Better Services.
‘The Panel will particularly benefit from Daniel’s insights and understanding of issues affecting citizens and people who need legal services in Wales.
‘I would also like to thank Owen Derbyshire for his invaluable contribution to the Consumer Panel.’
Chair of the Consumer Panel, Sarah Chambers, said:
‘I am delighted to welcome Daniel Newman to our Panel. His deep expertise in access to justice, advice deserts, Welsh affairs, vulnerability, and diversity issues will make a huge contribution to our agenda over the coming months and years.’
Dr Daniel Newman, said:
‘I am so excited to be joining the Panel. In all my scholarship, I look to promote access to justice and working with the Panel gives me the opportunity to have wider impact again. The Panel’s vision to empower consumers of legal services is one that I share, and I hope to support the interests of consumers to make sure legal services function in a way they feel is fair. Nobody should be excluded from accessing justice, I will support the Panel to help ensure legal services can bring access to justice for all.’
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About Dr Daniel Newman
Dr Daniel Newman is a senior lecturer in law at Cardiff University with extensive research expertise on access to justice, legal aid and the legal profession. He writes on both criminal justice and social welfare law. His books have included Legal Aid Lawyers and the Quest for Justice (Hart, 2013), Justice in a Time of Austerity (Bristol University Press, 2021) with Jon Robins, and Experiences of Criminal Justice (Bristol University Press, 2022) with Roxanna Dehaghani. He is currently writing Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice (Hart, 2023) with Jacqueline Kinghan, Jess Mant and Catrina Denvir. He edited Leading Works in Law and Social Justice (Routledge, 2021) with Faith Gordon, and is currently editing Leading Works on the Legal Profession (Routledge, 2023), and Access to Justice in Rural Communities (Routledge, 2023) with Faith Gordon. He has published two dozen peer reviewed academic journal articles, including in leading generalist journals such as Legal Studies and Modern Law Review. He edits the book series, Perspectives on Law and Access to Justice, for Bristol University Press with Jess Mant. He has been working on the Legal Aid Census with Catrina Denvir, Jacqueline Kinghan, Jess Mant and Sasha Aristotle; the largest survey of legal aid lawyers ever conducted in England and Wales, which will soon be released by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group. His work on access to justice has been cited in the UK and Welsh parliaments, and he has appeared as an expert on access to justice on TV and radio and in newspapers.