About the Board


LSB Board members

RNC & ARAC members

The Legal Services Board has 10 members, including the Chief Executive:


Alan Kershaw (Chair) (Member – Lay)

Alan has specialised in professional regulation since 1983. He has worked in both executive and non-executive roles, and has served as an independent member of a range of professional bodies. He has been involved in standards setting for professional groups across the main sectors: healthcare, law, finance, property, science. He has experience in all parts of the regulatory process, with a particular focus on standards and education, governance and strategy, and the effective handling of fitness to practise cases. He has published articles on regulation in professional journals and has delivered papers at national and international conferences. His other principal appointment is as Chair of the Architects Registration Board. He is also Chair of the Board of the National Register of Public Service Interpreters. He was a lay member of the original SRA Board and more recently served as a member of the Intellectual Property Regulation Board and of the Admissions and Licensing Committee of CILEX Regulation.

Term of Appointment 

  • 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2027
Alan Kershaw

Alan Kershaw


Catherine Brown (Member – Lay)

Catherine Brown is an experienced non-executive and chief executive who has worked in the private and public sectors.  She has a wide interest in effective regulation – having previously been CEO of the Food Standards Agency and currently serving as a Board member of Natural Resources Wales, where she also chairs the Audit and Risk Committee. Catherine has been appointed as the first Chair of the Enforcement Conduct Board, which is a new independent oversight body for the civil enforcement sector.

Catherine has an interest in diversity and inclusion, having been vice chair of the Wellcome Trust advisory group on increasing diversity and inclusion in science, and having previously served an Equal Opportunities Commissioner. Catherine is Chair of mySociety – a non profit that pioneers the use of on line technologies in the cause of civic participation, and is also Chair of hubbub – a charity that works with corporates to support behaviour change in the interests of the environment. Catherine is a qualified coach with a board level practice and also carries out consultancy work supporting organisations to improve their governance and leadership arrangements.

Term of Appointment 

  • 01 April 2023 – 31 March 2027
  • 01 April 2019 – 31 March 2023

Catherine Brown


Habib Motani (Member – Non Lay)

Habib Motani qualified as a solicitor in 1980. He is a Consultant to Clifford Chance LLP, having spent over 30 years as a partner in the firm’s banking and finance practice.  He is a Visiting Professor at the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Lay Governor and Vice Chair of the Board of Governors at the Glasgow School of Art and a Trustee at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, The Institute of Ismaili Studies and The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom. He is also a member of the Steering Group of the Canary Wharf Multi-faith Chaplaincy.

Term of Appointment 

  • 18 April 2022 – 17 April 2026

Habib Motani


Dr Gary Kildare (Member – Lay)

Dr Gary Kildare is the former Chief HR Officer Europe and Global Head of Labour Relations for the IBM Corporation.  He is an Independent Non-Executive for Crowe UK a leading audit, tax, advisory and risk firm and a member of The Public Interest Committee.  He is also a Non-Executive Director to The Insolvency Service; a Non-Executive Director for the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Chair of the People Committee;  a board member of The British Quality Foundation; a Board Advisor and mentor with Criticaleye the leadership peer to peer board community; and a member of The Court of Heriot-Watt University. Gary is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a visiting professor in Business at Edinburgh Napier Business School.

Term of Appointment 

  • 01 April 2021 -31 March 2025

Dr Gary Kildare


Flora Page (Member – Non-lay)

Flora Page has been both a solicitor and a barrister. In 1996, she joined Clifford Chance and subsequently worked for the Law Commission and the University of Law. Flora than established her own firm, Old Bailey Solicitors. Having obtained, in 2002, higher rights of audience, she cross-qualified, in 2013, as a barrister, and joined 23 Essex Street Chambers. Her practice focusses on financial crime, and she prosecutes and defends in equal amounts.

She is a leading junior, a Grade 4 Prosecutor, and a facilitator for Advocacy and the Vulnerable training. Flora has also had a period at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she has worked in both enforcement and consumer redress policy development. She is also a part-time PhD student at University College London, researching corporate misconduct. She was a long-serving committee member of the Solicitors’ Association of Higher Court Advocates, and then a member of the Executive of the Criminal Bar Association. She has been a member of the 23 Essex Street Equality and Diversity Committee, and a Financial Conduct Authority Equality and Diversity Superuser.

Term of Appointment

  • 1 August 2020 – 31 July 2024
Photo of Flora Page

Flora Page


Lizzie Peers (Member – Lay)

Lizzie Peers has over nine years’ experience as a Non-Executive Director across a variety of national and local organisations including the University Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, the Ministry of Justice, DEFRA, the National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.  She has over 20 years of experience as an external auditor and regulator with the Audit Commission and Ernst and Young LLP.

Term of Appointment

  • 1 October 2023 – 30 September 2027

Lizzie Peers


Matthew Hill, (Chief Executive)

Matthew joined the LSB in August 2019 as Chief Executive and executive Board member.

Matthew started his career in the Civil Service, working in a wide range of areas over a twenty year span. His brief has included food safety, animal health, alcohol, civil contingencies, broadcasting, gambling, creative industries and healthcare regulation. Before joining the LSB,  Matthew was Executive Director, Strategy at the General Dental Council. Before that, he was Director, Regulatory Risk & Analysis at the Gambling Commission.

Photo of Matthew Hill

Matthew Hill


Clare Brown (Member – Non Lay)

Clare is a Barrister at 2 Temple Gardens. She is on the Treasury A Panel and is frequently instructed by the Government in high profile public law cases. She formerly worked for the European Court of Human Rights and for the Ombudsman of Human rights in Bosnia. Clare is also a senior lecturer on the Bar Course at City Law School, University of London.

Term of Appointment 

  • 1 June 2023 – 31 May 2027

Clare Brown


Kate Briscoe (Member – Lay)

Kate is the CEO and Co-Founder of LegalBeagles; the UK’s largest legal advice forum as well as JustBeagle; an independent search and legal comparison site to directly connect consumers to 10,000 regulated law firms across England and Wales.  She has served as an expert panel member for the Solicitors Regulation Authority and, as a consumer rights advocate and consumer litigator, at Howlett Clarke Solicitors.

Term of Appointment 

  • 1 June 2023 – 31 May 2027
Kate Briscoe

Kate Briscoe


Meena Sankar (Board Apprentice)

Meena is a dedicated professional from South Africa with 18+ years in the construction industry. Currently, Meena serves as a Specification Consultancy service line lead, contributing to business development efforts at international and regional levels.

Her expertise is primarily centred around Design Management and Specification Consultancy, skills carefully cultivated through hands-on involvement across various sectors. Meena’s journey encompasses diverse areas, including the oil and gas sector, cultural and commercial projects, healthcare facilities, retail establishments, educational institutions, residential developments, hotels, as well as sports and leisure complexes.

Term of Appointment 

  • 1 January 2024-31 December 2024

Meena Sankar


Committees

In line with good governance the Board has established two committees to help it fulfil its duties. These are:

Audit and Risk Assurance Committee

The Audit and Risk Assurance Committee is responsible for ensuring the maintenance of appropriate audit and risk processes within the organisation and the governance of the internal audit and external audit programmes.

Members

LSB Audit and Risk Committee – Terms of Reference (pdf, 49kb)

Remuneration and Nomination Committee (RNC)

The Remuneration and Nomination Committee is responsible for the overall remuneration approach and policy relating to all members of staff at the LSB and helps with succession planning for the Board and its committees.

Members

LSB Remuneration and Nomination Committee – Terms of Reference (pdf, 52kb)