Panel Speakers
Chair - Nick Hanning, ILEX Council
Member and Advocate
Nick has been a Fellow of the Institute
of Legal Executives since 1990. In 2000 he was one of the small
group to qualify as the first ever Legal Executive Advocates and in
2009 was among the first Legal Executives to become a partner in a
Solicitors' Practice.
He has been a Council Member since 2005 and
Chair of the ILEX Pro Bono Forum since June 2007 besides being
closely involved in Finance, Practice Rights and Legal Services
Reform among other things.
Closer to his home in Poole, Nick is Secretary
of the Bournemouth & District Branch of ILEX and Chair of
the Trustees of Bournemouth & Poole Pro Bono, a charity
providing pro bono legal advice and training to local
voluntary and community groups.
In his day job, Nick is a partner and personal
injury and employment lawyer with RWPS LLP in Poole where he
specialises in occupational stress claims, especially for the
targets of bullying and harassment. Having secured the then largest
ever award for a first breakdown case in 2001 he also acted for
the Claimant in the seminal House of Lords case of
Majrowski -v- Guy's and St Thomas's NHS Trust which
established the principle of vicarious liability of employers under
the Protection from Harassment Act.
Dr Dianne Hayter - Chair of the Legal
Services Board
Currently Chair of the Legal Services Board, Dianne was formerly
Chair of the Consumer Panel of the Bar Council. Dianne is also a
member of the Board for Actuarial Standards, the Insolvency
Practices Council, and the Determinations Panel of the Pension
Regulator. She was previously Vice Chair of the Financial Services
Consumer Panel, and on the National Consumer Council.
Prior to that she was the Chief Executive of a number of
organisations, including Alcohol Concern, the European
Parliamentary Labour Party and the Pelican Cancer Centre, as well
as Director of Corporate Affairs at the Wellcome Trust. She served
for a year as Chair of the Labour Party’s National Executive
Committee, is a trustee of a number of charities and was a JP for
over a decade.
Chris Kenny - Chief Executive
of the Legal Services Board
Chris Kenny is the inaugural Chief Executive
of the Legal Services Board. His early career was in the Department
of Health and the Treasury, where he held a variety of policy and
management posts including Principal Private Secretary to the
Secretary of State. As Oftel's Director of Regulatory Policy and
then Director of Compliance between 2000 and 2003, he worked on
access and competition issues and worked with industry and consumer
bodies to establish the Telecoms Ombudsman.
Most recently, as Director of Life and
Pensions for the Association of British Insurers, he led the
industry's input into the work of the Pensions Commission and the
Government's response to it and worked with Lord Hunt of Wirral on
the independent review of the Financial Ombudsman Service. Chris
has also held non-executive posts in the NHS and third sector.
Alan Kershaw - Chair of ILEX Professional
Standards
Alan was appointed in June 2008 as the first chair of
IPS. Alan is a specialist in professional regulation and
brings with him a long record of achievement. He was the
first chief executive of the Council for the Registration of
Forensic Practitioners from 1999 to 2007. Prior to that, he
had spent 16 years working for the General Medical Council, his
final three years as director of education and
standards. He also holds board appointments on a
number of other professional standards setting
bodies.