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Editor
Fiona Bawdon
Independent Lawyer is edited by the legal journalist Fiona Bawdon, who has written about legal aid for the national and legal press since 1988. She was launch editor of the well-respected magazine Litigation Funding and co-author of the first book on conditional fees (Conditional fees: A survival guide, Law Society 1995).
fiona.bawdon@independent-lawyer.com
Contributing editor
Jon Robins
jon.robins@independent-lawyer.com
Office manager
Tanya Steklova
admin@independent-lawyer.com
Independent Lawyer's editorial board:
Ulla Barlow
Management director & co-founder of the innovative not-for-profit legal aid firm Law for All.
Sara Chandler
Senior supervising solicitor at the College of Law's legal advice centre. Formerly solicitor at Plumstead Community Law Centre and represents not-for-profit groups on the Law Society council.
Martyn Day
Senior partner at Leigh Day & Co, known for his ground-breaking environmental and human rights cases.
Jane Hickman
Senior partner at Hickman & Rose, a leading criminal appeals solicitor and secretary and co-founder of the Criminal Appeal Lawyers Association. Imran Khan
The leading human rights solicitor who made his name with the Stephen Lawrence case, now specialising in what have become known as 'impact cases'.
Michael Napier
Senior partner at Irwin Mitchell, a former Law Society president and pioneer of clinical negligence and multi-party actions.
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Roger Smith
Solicitor and director of the law reform and human rights group Justice, former director at Legal Action Group.
Kerry Underwood
An expert on personal injury
and employment law, his
firm has pioneered new
funding methods.
Henry Witcomb
A barrister at One Crown Office Row, specialising in clinical negligence and catastrophic injury claims.
REGULAR COLUMNISTS
Practice management
Vicky Ling
A management consultant who specialises in advising legal aid firms. She was formerly a manager at the Legal Aid Board, and helped develop its franchising scheme.
vicky@vling.demon.co.uk
Case analysis
Dominic Thomas
A barrister at Charter Chambers, specialising in criminal and human rights cases.
domttom@hotmail.com
Gordon Wignall
A barrister at 36 Bedford Row, London, specialising in civil and costs-related cases.
Gwignall@36bedfordrow.co.uk
Summaries of key legal aid cases supplied by LexisNexis.
Not-for-prophets
Neil Francis-Paul
A regular, no-holds barred account of life in the voluntary sector.
Legal aid surgery
Richard Miller
Director of the Legal Aid Practitioners Group and a former legal aid solicitor answers readers' queries in Independent Lawyer's Surgery column.
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