Reappointment of 7 lay panel members of the Judicial Conduct and Investigations Office

The Lord Chancellor, in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice, has announced the reappointment of 7 lay panel members of the Judicial Conduct and Investigations Office. The members are:

Clive Chalk; Victor Marshall OBE; Patrick Stayt; Lynne Vernon; Suzy Walton; Peter Wrench; Wendy Yeadon.

The reappointments will run from 1 July 2022 – 31 March 2023.

The Judicial Conduct and Investigations Office is an independent office which supports the Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice in considering complaints about the personal conduct of judicial office-holders.

Appointments and reappointments are made by the Lord Chancellor and are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. The reappointments have been made in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.

biographies

Clive Chalk is a retired Chief Superintendent with the Metropolitan Police Service. He is a Lay Member of the Governing Board for Hounslow Clinical Commissioning Group and Lay Chair of the General Dental Council’s Investigating Committee.

Victor Marshall OBE is the professional standards co-ordinator for the Police Superintendents’ Association. Victor joined Sussex Police in 1979 and served in a variety of roles including firearms, public order, uniform, CID and professional standards retiring as a detective superintendent. He was appointed OBE, in 2010, and holds two Royal Humane Society awards for saving lives.

Patrick Stayt: undertakes a number of voluntary roles and was formerly a member of the Police Remuneration Review Body and National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body. Patrick was previously National Secretary of the Police Superintendents’ Association for England and Wales. He retired from the Police Service, in 2010, after a 30-year career and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service.

Mrs Lynn Vernon is a retired Detective Chief Inspector. During her 30 years’ service with Greater Manchester Police she managed public protection, counter corruption and homicide investigation units. She now undertakes various roles as a lay member of the General Chiropractic Council Investigating Committee, Social Work England and the Royal college of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She is a Medical Education Partner at Manchester University, involved in the admissions for the Medical and Dental schools and the student Health and Conduct panel. She is a former chair of the GDC Investigating Committee.

Dr Suzy Walton is a Chartered Director, Chartered Occupational Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist who has sat on over a dozen boards of large organizations both in the UK and internationally. She is a member of the board of the Institute of Directors and Vice President at the Royal Society of Medicine. Suzy is a regulatory board member and Chairman at Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She was a former member of the State Honors Committee which makes recommendations for awards to the Prime Minister and The Queen.

Mr Peter Wrench is an independent adjudicator of student finance appeals and complaints for DfE and Welsh Government. He is also: a member of the Code Adjudication Panel of the Phone-paid Services Authority; a member of the Disciplinary Tribunal of the CILEx Regulation; a member of the Fitness to Practice Committee at the Nursing and Midwifery Council. He was formerly a member of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee of the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner.

Ms Wendy Yeadon is an Independent Chair at Social Work England. She is also Chair of Discipline, Appeals and Licensing Hearings at the ACCA. Wendy is: a Lay Adjudicator at the Solicitors Regulation Authority; a Chair of Fitness to Practice Panels at the Nursing and Midwifery Council and; a selection panel member at the Judicial Appointments Commission. Wendy was formerly a Lay Member of Professional Conduct Panels, Chartered Institute of Legal Executives.

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