Annex A |
SIR THOMAS BOYD-CARPENTER (Chairman)
spent his career in the army serving latterly as Deputy Chief of the Defence
Staff responsible for strategic planning, resource allocation and personnel
policy. Since his retirement he has been serving as Chairman of the Kensington,
Chelsea and Westminster Health Authority and as Chairman of the Social
Security Advisory Committee as well as working as a consultant with 'People
in Business'.
NAOMI ANGELL is a partner with Goodman Ray Solicitors where she
specialises in children's law and heads the adoption team. She recently
stood down from the Law Society's Family Law Committee, and is a
member of the Society of Labour Lawyers.
DR CAROLE KAPLAN is a senior lecturer and consultant in child and
adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Child Health, Newcastle University
and City Health Trust. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
She is also a member of the Council on Tribunals.
DR JANET LEWIS is Research Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
which funds research and development projects in the field of housing,
social care and social policy.
SUZAN MATTHEWS QC was called to the Bar in 1974 and has specialised
in family work since 1979. She served as a member of the Gas Consumer
Council until 1996 and is the Chair of the Valley Trust, a charity which
aims to support adults and children in relationship breakdown.
PROFESSOR PHYLLIDA PARSLOE is a senior research fellow and emeritus
professor in the School for Policy Studies at Bristol University. She
is a member of the Alcohol Research and Education Council, a non-executive
director of Frenchay Health Care Trust, and a member of Horfield Prison
Board of Visitors.
PROFESSOR SIMON ROBERTS is Professor of Law at the London School
of Economics and Political Science. His specialist field is the study
of dispute processes with a particular focus on negotiation and mediation.
JANE SIMPSON is a partner with Manches and Co Solicitors where
she heads the Family Law Department. She is a former Chair of the Solicitors
Family Law Association and has been a member of the Board of the Family
Mediators' Association. She is currently a member of the Lord Chancellor's
Ancillary Relief Advisory Group and a non-executive director of the Tavistock
Portman NHS Trust.
DAVID SKIDMORE an Assistant Chief Probation Officer in the West
Midlands, is currently responsible for probation work in North West Birmingham,
and for community safety and work with victims of crime. Until recently,
he has been responsible for Family Court Welfare work, and was a member
of the Coventry & Birmingham Guardian ad Litem Panel Committee and
of the Family Court Business Committees in Coventry, Birmingham &
Wolverhampton.. He is a member of both the Coventry and Birmingham Guardian
ad Litem Panel Committees and of the Family Court Business Committees
in Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE WALL was appointed to the Family Division
of the High Court in 1993. He is family division liaison judge for the
Northern Circuit.
COLIN WEBB, a former Deputy Editor of The Times, recently took
early retirement from his position as general manager of the Press Association
in order to work in family mediation. He has trained with the Family Mediators'
Association and National Family mediation and works as a mediator at the
Eye-to-Eye centre in Camberwell, specialising in children's issues.
Mr Webb resigned from the Board in 1997 due to a conflict of interest
and returned in 1998.
ANTHONY WELLS OBE is the former Director of the National Council
for Family Proceedings. Prior to that he worked as the regional staff
development officer for the Probation Service in the South West Region
with a particular interest in divorce court welfare.