Austin Allison
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Austin was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1969 and has been a Bencher since 2003. In practice in the Temple 1970 to 1987. Head of Group Compliance at Standard Chartered Bank 1987 to 1995. Director, Westdeutsche Landesbank 1996 to 2000. TT International 2000 to 2019 and a Partner from 2001, Head of Compliance and Legal 2000 to 2011, General Counsel from 2011, director of TT International Funds plc from 2001. Chairman BACFI 1995. General Council of the Bar 1991 to 1996. Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 1996. Austin has now retired from TT International and since 2020 he has been a member of the British Horseracing Authority’s independent Judicial Panel ( licensing and disciplinary matters and appeals from decisions of racecourse stewards).
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Stephen Bacon
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Stephen, practised for 11 years in Manchester chambers before joining Express Newspapers from where he retired as head of legal. Currently he is a media law consultant mainly for News UK publishers of The Times, the Sunday Times and the Sun.
Stephen was chairman of BACFI in 1997 to 1998 and 2006 to 2008. He represented employed barristers on the Bar Council and Gray’s Inn Barristers Committee for many years. Prior to the Access to Justice Act 1999 he lobbied successfully for various rights for employed barristers to be enacted. He was instrumental in obtaining the right to conduct litigation. Work on behalf of BACFI in this sphere continued prior to the Legal Services Act 2007. Previously a submission was incorporated in the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Stephen has had many articles and interviews published concerning BACFI and the employed bar, working in-house and media law.
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Ian Brookes-Howells
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Ian was called to the Bar in 1989 and completed pupillages at East Anglian Chambers and did a unique in-house Commercial Pupillage with the Legal Advisor at GEC Plessey Telecoms before embarking on his career as an in-house counsel. He is a senior commercial counsel who works for multinational corporations on an interim and consultancy basis. Ian specialises in commercial contracts for IT, outsourcing and fintech services.
Ian focuses on commercial transactions and contracts in the Banking, financial services, energy, telecommunications and IT service sectors. Prior to this Ian was a senior counsel for over 15 years at BT Group plc.
He is also passionate about diversity and equality, and was the founder of BT’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employee network. Ian is a Rotarian, and enjoys doing charity fundraising and community work. He lives with his husband David in Royal Leamington Spa and they enjoy their holiday cottage in mid-Wales, railways, travel and history.
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Simon Broomfield
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Simon was called to the Bar in 2002. He is General Counsel and Company Secretary at Brooks Macdonald Group PLC. Simon is also a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.
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Stephen Collier
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Stephen is an active Chairman across public-sector and private-sector health and care organisations. He is Chair of Eden Futures, the Sovereign Capital backed supported living provider; Chair of NHS Professionals, the Department of Health owned flexible workforce provider; and a non-executive Director and Chair of Workforce at St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (home of ‘24 hours in A&E’) He is also health and care sector advisor to a number of investors and operators; and a Trustee of Resurge Africa, a charity working in Ghana and Sierra Leone.
After practice in chambers, Stephen joined American Medical UK as an in-house counsel which in turn led to him becoming Chief Executive of a large hospital in Glasgow. He then managed a number of international healthcare investments for Generale de Sante and combined this with a legal and commercial role in the UK, majoring on operations, financing and acquisitions. He worked with private equity investors in General Healthcare Group and, following a period as its Strategy Director, he was appointed BMI Healthcare’s Group Chief Executive in 2011 and led BMI’s repositioning, and refinancing - stepping down from that role at the end of 2014 and moving into the present portfolio stage of his career.
He served on the Bar Council from 2004 – 2014, and during that period was joint chair of the Employed Barristers Committee, and then Treasurer of the Bar Council 2011-2014 where he introduced the current income-based practising certificate fee. He is a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn.
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Nicholas Dee
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After call, Nicholas trained also as a chartered accountant and specialised in tax with two international accounting firms. He then joined what became SmithKline Beecham as a senior vice president and Director of Taxation. He was previously chairman of the CBI Tax Committee and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He currently sits in the First Tier Tax Tribunal and is a generalist CAB adviser.
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Helen Fletcher Rogers
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After being called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn, she spent most of her career as an in-house lawyer with Kodak becoming European General Counsel. She served on the BSB Qualifications Committee for 6 years and is still liaising with the BSB on pupillage issues. She is a member of the Council of BIICL and is secretary of a number of charities.
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Tricia Howse
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Tricia Howse, CBE is a freelance law lecturer and writer on economic crime. Co author of the 2006 Fraud Review, she is a former Assistant Director of the Serious Fraud Office and has held senior posts at the Financial Services Authority, the Bank of England and HM Customs & Excise. Tricia is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn, Trustee of the Portsmouth Royal Maritime Club and honorary secretary of the European Criminal Law Association.
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Lucinda Orr
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Lucinda is an employed barrister working in a specialist Litigation firm, Enyo Law LLP, in the City of London. Enyo Law covers high value, big ticket litigation – the so-called “Super cases”. Lucinda trained as a barrister in one of the top Shipping Chambers and subsequently practised for a number of years in the Litigation departments of US firms, Skadden Arps and Quinn Emanuel.
A member of the Bar Council of England and Wales since 2008, Lucinda has spent several years on the General Management Committee and was the Chair of the Employed Bar Committee in 2017. She is the Chair of the Annual Bar Conference 2018, and sits on the Bar Representative Committee. She is also elected to Gray’s Inn Barristers’ Committee.
She was the Chair of BACFI from 2012 – 2015.
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Patrick Rappo
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Patrick is a Partner at the London office of DLA Piper UK LLP and Co-Chair of the Global Investigations & Compliance Group. Patrick represents companies and individuals across high risk sectors and high risk jurisdictions, and has been involved with a number of high profile investigations and prosecutions – including Global Investigations Review’s “Most Important Case of 2020”: SFO v Barclay’s Bank. He works on a range of matters from proactive compliance programme design and implementation, to responding to government investigations and prosecutions, including the DoJ, SFO and World Bank. He previously lead the Bribery & Corruption Divisions at the UK Serious Fraud Office and has been a specialist criminal law advocate at 9 Bedford Row. In addition, Patrick also holds positions as; Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn; Approved Advocacy Trainer for the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple; Pupil Supervisor and Trustee of the Fraud Advisory Panel.
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Dame Vivien Rose
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Dame Vivien Rose, Lady Rose became a Justice of the Supreme Court on 19 April 2021.
Lady Rose took her first degree at Newnham College, Cambridge and a post-graduate degree at Brasenose College, Oxford. She was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn in 1984 and was in practice at Monckton Chambers for ten years. She was appointed Standing Counsel to the Director General of Fair Trading in 1992.
In 1995 she left private practice to join the Government Legal Service serving as a legal adviser on financial services at HM Treasury until 2001. In 2002 she was appointed to the Senior Civil Service and moved to the Ministry of Defence as Director of Operational and International Humanitarian Law. From 2005 to 2008 she was seconded to the Office of Counsel to the Speaker of the House of Commons.
In 2006 she was appointed to her first judicial role as a fee-paid Chairman of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. She was appointed to further tribunal posts and became a Recorder in the criminal jurisdiction, South Eastern circuit in 2010. In May 2013 Dame Vivien was sworn in as a High Court Judge in the Chancery Division. She was President of the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) between 2015 and 2018 and was a nominated judge of the Financial List from its inception. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in January 2019.
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Christiane Valansot
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Christiane was called in 1989. After pupillage, Christiane joined City solicitors, then worked as in-house counsel in investment banking and latterly as general counsel for a trade association for asset managers thus gaining over 20 years’ experience as an in-house practitioner in financial services. Christiane is now an independent consultant. She is a long standing BACFI member and former BACFI chairman. Christiane is also an employed bar advocacy and ethics trainer at Middle Temple.
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