Tribunal Panel

Members
Ian Abrams		Ian Abrams has more than 30 years of Investment Banking experience. Ian is currently a non-executive director of: The Pension Protection Fund; Mizuho International Plc and Theta Enhanced Asset Management. He is a member of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and the Securities Institute and a graduate of the London School of Economics.
Paul Acres QPM		Paul Acres was Chief Constable of Hertfordshire from 2000 to 2004 and previously Deputy Chief Constable of Merseyside. Experienced in investigation and the development of professional standards he now holds several public appointments.
Alan Barber FCIB		Alan Barber is retired after a 40 year career in Banking, holding senior positions with Midland (now HSBC) Bank, both in UK and overseas, and Deutsche Bank in London. He now uses his lending and management experience in a variety of consultancy and non-executive roles.
George Bardwell CBE, FCIPD		George Bardwell is a former senior civil servant, is a Director of Public Administration International, an international development management consultancy firm and a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel.
Ian Beesley MA, FRSS, FRSA		Ian Beesley is a retired PricewaterhouseCoopers ('PwC') management consulting partner. Former HR Leader for PwC's Global Business Process Outsourcing business. 1964-1986 civil servant in the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury and the UK Prime Minister's Office where he led the Efficiency Unit.
David Blunt QC		David Blunt is a practising barrister and a Recorder, and he sits part-time as a Deputy Judge of the High Court and of the Technology and Construction Court.
Steven Boughton		Stephen Boughton retired from Linklaters, a city and international law firms in December 2003. He was a partner for nearly 18 years working on corporate finance transactions in many locations including London, New York and Hong Kong. Since his retirement he has become involved in a number of activities in the voluntary sector in Kent and sits as a Justice of the Peace on the North Kent Bench at Chatham.
Christopher Bright		Christopher Bright is the principal of Competition Consulting. He specialises in competition and regulation. He is also a member of the Competition Commission, a non-executive director of the Jersey Competition Regulation Authority and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative law, University of Oxford.
Bill Brown LLB, CA, ATII		Bill Brown is a retired audit and financial due diligence partner after many years with PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is now in business as a consultant in financial accounting and corporate governance matters. He is also currently a non-executive director of Business Link for London, a leading support organisation. Previously, he has been a non-executive director of Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust.
Richard Collins MA, FCA		Richard Collins is a Member at Kinetic Partners and has had some 20 years' experience of financial services compliance at senior level in premier UK, US and European financial institutions, covering retail, investment banking, investment management and international banking. Most recently he was Group Compliance Director at Lloyds TSB for four and a half years. He is a Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies and a Member of the Guild of International Bankers.
Richard de Lacy QC		Richard de Lacy has practised at the Bar since 1976. He has specialist knowledge of insolvency, claims relating to accountancy and accountants, company law, property law, professional indemnity claims in these fields and in tax advice. He is also a practising arbitrator and an accredited mediator.
D. Anthony Evans QC		Anthony Evans was called to the Bar, Grays Inn in 1965, called to the Queens Counsel in 1983, Recorder of the Crown Court 1980 - 2003. He is a DTI Inspector and was Chairman of JDS Tribunals.
Jonathan Fisher QC		Jonathan Fisher QC is a barrister at 23 Essex Street, London, specialising in all types of fraud, financial crime and regulatory cases. He was Standing Counsel (Criminal) to the Inland Revenue from 1991 to 2003. He is general editor of Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime, a Trustee Director of the Fraud Advisory Panel, an honorary Steering Group member of the London Fraud Forum, and a visiting professor at London School of Economics.
Arthur Harverd FCA		Arthur Harverd is a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Arbitrator. He is the Chairman of the London Court of International Arbitration, a past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the Board of The International Dispute Resolution Centre, London. He has twice acted as a DTI Inspector.
George Helsby		George Helsby is the former Chairman / Non-Executive Director of Public Corporations worldwide; Chairman of the Mental Health Appeals Panel and the South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority Appeals Panel; a Lay Member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel, Post-graduate Medical Education and Training Board Appeals Panel, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals' Clinical Ethics Group. He is also an Accredited Mediator and writer.
Alex Jablonowski		Alex Jablonowski was formerly a divisional CEO at Barclays and CEO of a private and merchant bank. He now advises a number of banking software houses and a major venture capital house. He is a Non-Executive Director of the Veterans Agency, Highways Agency, Companies House, Vehicle Operator Standards Agency, Office of National Statistics and Wilton Park. He is co-author of the 'The Art of Better Retail Banking' published by Wiley in 2005.
Tim Johnston FCA		Tim Johnson is an economist and Chartered Accountant. He is a partner in AMION Consulting, a firm that specialises in urban regeneration and economic development consultancy. Previously he was a senior partner with KPMG and was the firm's national head of its Infrastructure and Government line of business.
Richard Jones QC		Richard Jones is a practising barrister with a wide ranging practice. He has a particular interest in regulatory and disciplinary issues in a number of fields. He sits as a Recorder in the Crown Court and County Court.
Richard Kennett BSc, FCA, MCIArb		Richard Kennett is a Chartered Accountant, Arbitrator and Mediator. He is a Director with Tenon and has worked in the accountancy profession for more than 30 years, both in the UK and overseas. He specialises in auditing, business advisory work and dispute resolution.
Geoffrey Lane BSc (Econ) FCA		Geoffrey Lane is a Consultant with Chantrey Vellacott DFK having been a partner with the firm for 26 years until 2006. He is a former President of the international accounting network DFK and has been a DTI Inspector. He currently specialises in risk management and forensic accountancy.
Eugene McGivern CB		Eugene McGivern was on the Civil Service Appeal Board 1998 - 2004. He was a civil servant with the Inland Revenue until 1998, including Director of Personal and Business Tax Divisions; Appeals and Grievance Officer; Assistant Director in Human Relations Division.
His Honour Christopher McGonigal		Christopher McGonigal was the North Eastern Circuit Mercantile Judge from 1997 - 2003. Prior to that he was the Senior Litigation Partner of Clifford Chance.
Anne Marie Millar FCMA, CPFA, FIMGT, BA (Econ)		Anne Marie Millar has over 15 years experience as a Finance Director in both the private and public sectors (Transport and Health). She has been in her current role as a Deputy Director of Finance for the Department of Health since September 2003. She is a CIMA and CIPFA member.
Geoffrey Mitchell FCA		Geoffrey Mitchell has preparer experience at a top FTSE 100 company, including the introduction of IFRS in 2005; a standard setter and academic. He is currently a company director.
Sir Peter North CBE, QC		Sir Peter North is Chairman of ICSTIS (the premium rate regulator) and of the Oxford University Press Finance Committee, as well as being a member of the Senior Salaries Review Body; and was formerly Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Principal of Jesus College Oxford, a Law Commissioner and Chairman of the ACCA Disciplinary Appeal Committee.
Keith Palmer FSI		Keith Palmer is a consultant in financial services compliance and regulation. Until his retirement from full-time employment in 2002 he was a solicitor with an MBA who had reached the level of managing director and global head of compliance at two European investment banks. He is a lay member of the Financial Services and Markets Tribunal, a member of the Essex South and North Valuation Tribunals and a Fellow of the Securities and Investment Institute.
Ian Plaistowe FCA		Ian Plaistowe was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1992-1993, served as Chairman of the Auditing Practices Board from 1994 to 2002 and was a member of the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board in 2002-2004. He retired from public practice in 2002 and currently serves on the Boards of a number of educational and charitable bodies.
Stephen Powles QC		Stephen Powles has wide-ranging experience of most business sectors especially technology and engineering but including disputes involving accountants and auditors negligence, due diligence failures and assessment of business losses. He is a Crown Court Recorder and commercial mediator.
Robert Rhodes QC		Robert Rhodes was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1989, and has been a Crown Court Recorder since 1987. He is a former Deputy Chairman of the IMRO Membership Appeal Tribunal, and was formerly a member of the Appeal Committee of the ICAEW. He practices, inter alia, in fraud, money laundering, regulatory matters and financial services. He has published many articles, lectured all over the world, and broadcast on both television and radio.
George Staple CB, QC		George Staple was a partner in Clifford Chance and one of its predecessor firms from 1967 until 1991 when he was appointed Director of the Serious Fraud Office. He is now a consultant to Clifford Chance and Chairman of the Review Board for Government Contracts.
Bruce Warman		Bruce Warman has a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol and an MBA from the London Business School. After a long career in the motor industry during which time he qualified as an accountant, he retired as Director of Personnel of Vauxhall Motors in 2003. He now works as a senior executive coach, a member of the Employment Appeal Tribunal, the School Teachers' Review Body and Vice Chairman of the Security Industry Authority where he is also Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is a Fellow of the RSA.
Christopher Whittington MA, FCA		Christopher Whittington qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Cooper Brothers & Co in 1964. Following a period with Unilever Group he joined Morgan Grenfell & Co Ltd in 1968. After some years as Head of the International Division he became Chairman of the Bank in 1988 as well as Deputy Chairman of the Group. He took early retirement in 1989 and became a Non-Executive Director of several UK listed companies. He returned to Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group in 1996 to become Chairman of the UK Audit Committee until November 2004. He is currently Chairman of the Deutsche Bank UK Pension Fund and also Deputy Chairman of a group of hedge funds.
Ann Wilks CBE		Ann Wilks was Secretary (Chief Executive) to the Financial Reporting Council and Secretary to the Financial Reporting Review Panel from 1998 to 2004. Her earlier career was spent in Government, mainly at the Department of Trade and Industry.