Judging Panel

Bill Knight
Immediate Past President, City of London Law Society, chairman, Financial Reporting Review Panel

Bill Knight is a solicitor who has chaired the Financial Reporting Review Panel since 2004. He is deputy chairman of council at Lloyd’s of London and a Gambling Commissioner. He is a former senior partner of Simmons & Simmons and chairman of the Law Society’s Company Law Committee. He is currently Master of the City of London Solicitors Company.

Richard Bennett
General counsel, HSBC

Career to date: 1976-79 - assistant solicitor with Stephenson Harwood; 1979-88 - assistant group legal adviser with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation; 1988-92 - deputy group legal adviser with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation; 1993-97 - head of legal and compliance for Asia-Pacific with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking corporation; 1998 to date — head of legal and compliance with HSBC Holdings.

Group General Counsel. Telefónica Europe plc

Justine Campbell was appointed Group General Counsel of O2 in October 2006. She joined O2 on its formation and prior to this held the position of Head of Competition Law, responsible for European and national competition law matters across the Group. Justine has been involved in the telecommunications industry since 1999, when she joined BT plc as a senior competition counsel. Before joining BT, she spent five years as a lawyer with Freshfields, in London and Brussels, as a member of their specialist anti-trust group advising on competition law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, anti-trust investigations and strategic alliances. She holds a degree in law from Trinity College, Dublin in 1991 and qualified as a solicitor in 1995.

Anthony Cann
Anthony Cann is a non-executive director of Smith News and joined the Board on 31 August 2006. He is Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees. He is a solicitor, now non-practising, and was the worldwide Senior Partner of Linklaters, an international law firm, from 2001 until September 2006. He is a non-executive director of Panmure Gordon & Co plc and Chairman of Trustees of Changing Faces.

Tim Clark
Tim Clark was, for 7 years, the Senior Partner of Slaughter and May, one of the leading international law firms. As part of his role as Senior Partner, he had overall responsibility for the firm's external relationships and played a leading part in the development and implementation of strategy for its integrated network of independent law firms across the world. After joining Slaughter and May in 1973 as a trainee, Tim became a partner in 1983. His practice primarily involved mergers and acquisitions, corporate and general corporate finance. He advised companies and institutions from a range of jurisdictions, in particular, Europe and the USA. Tim is a non-executive director of Big Yellow Group PLC, Mint Partners Limited and the COIF Charitable Funds and a Vice Chair of Business for New Europe. He is also a member of the International Chamber of Commerce UK Governing Body, the Development Committee of the National Gallery and the International Advisory Board of Uria Menendez and a trustee of the Geoffrey de Havilland Flying Foundation.

Professor Laura Empson
Chair, management of professional services firms, Cass Business School

Professor Empson joined Cass Business School from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where she was director of the Clifford Chance Centre for the Management of Professional Service Firms. In her current role, Professor Empson focuses on the management of firms in the legal, consulting, accounting and investment banking sectors and is currently researching leadership in professional service firms and the challenges posed by new modes of organising professionals.

Jonathan Goldsmith
Secretary General, Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)

Jonathan Goldsmith is the Secretary General of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents over 700,000 European lawyers through its member bars and law societies. The CCBE deals with a wide range of EU and global issues, such as anti-money-laundering legislation, an EU-wide Code of Conduct, competition matters affecting the legal profession, and GATS. He is an English solicitor. He began his legal career in the UK Citizens Advice Bureaux as advice worker (1978-1980) and community lawyer (1980-1986). After that, he joined the Law Society of England and Wales, first as Deputy Head, Communications and then, from 1995-2001, as Director, International, promoting the interests of solicitors abroad.

Jeremy Hand
Chairman of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association

Jeremy Hand is managing partner of Lyceum Capital. In addition to sourcing and leading Lyceum's investments in Asquith Schools and Asquith Nurseries, Fox IT, VELO, National Britannia Group and Digica, Jeremy co-led the Southern Cross acquisition. Before co-founding Lyceum Capital in 1999, he was a founding shareholder, director and Investment Committee member of Duke Street Capital (formerly Hambro European Ventures. Jeremy is vice chairman of the British Ve nture Capital Association and is a former chairman of its taxation committee.

Carol Hui
Carol Hui is General Counsel and an Executive Director of Amey plc. She is responsible for the Amey’s Legal and Secretariat functions, Contract Services, Property Services, Insurance and Risk Management. As an Executive Director, she participates in the development of Group strategy and policy, and approval of key projects and investments.

Carol was previously a lawyer at Slaughter and May. Thereafter she joined the British Gas Group and became Deputy General Counsel of BG plc. Before joining Amey, she was the Group Company Secretary and Director of Legal Services at TDG plc.
At Amey, Carol and her legal team handle major contracts including PFI / PPP projects, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, litigation, corporate and finance, employment and pensions matters. They also manage a range of external law firms.
In April 2008, she was awarded European General Counsel of the Year by the International Law Office and Association of Corporate Counsel. She was appointed by two successive Prime Ministers to serve as a Member of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration from 1995 to 2000.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a member of Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Group and serves on the Editorial Board of the International In-House Counsel Journal. Carol enjoys visual arts, literature, current affairs and travelling and is a Cordon Bleu cook.

Sean McGovern
Sean McGovern was appointed Head of Legal at Lloyd's in April 2000 and is now Director & General Counsel. He is responsible for legal issues at Lloyd's and leads Lloyd's regulatory activities around the world. He is also resp onsi ble for developing Lloyd's relationships with managing agents and brokers. Sean is a Director of Lloyd's Reinsurance Company China Limited. He is also a non-executive Director of Xchanging Insurance Services Limited, which provides processing services to the London Insurance Market.

Miller McLean
Miller McLean was appointed Group Secretary and General Counsel, The Royal Bank of Scotland Group in August 1994. He is a trustee of the Industry and Parliament Trust, non-executive chairman of The Whitehall and Industry Group, director of The Scottish Parliament and Business Exchange and president of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.

Helen Mahy
Group Company Secretary and General Counsel – National Grid plc and member of its Executive Committee

Helen Mahy is Company Secretary to National Grid plc Board and Committees providing Company Secretariat services and support to all Group companies and ensuring National Grid maintains appropriate system of governance to comply with statutory, regulatory and best practice requirements. She is responsible for Group Legal Function, ensuring professional and appropriate legal support is provided throughout the Group and also Heads up Group Risk and Compliance function. Co-sponsor of the Group Inclusion and Diversity programme and Chair of the National Grid UK Women's Network

Zahida Manzoor CBE
Legal Services Complaints Commissioner and Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales

Ms Manzoor was appointed as Legal Services Ombudsman in March 2003 and as Legal Services Complaints Commissioner in February 2004. A former member of the NHS Policy Board and Regional Chair of the NHS Executive, Northern and Yorkshire Regions, she oversaw many improvements in the Health Service for over 60 hospitals and Health Authorities. Ms Manzoor was Commissioner and Deputy Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality and Chair of the Bradford Health Authority, the first Asian woman to fill these posts. Ms Manzoor is a trustee of the NSPCC and in Autumn 2007 accepted an invitation to become a trustee of the National Media Museum.

Terry Miller
General counsel, London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games

Terry Miller is the General Counsel of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). As general counsel, she heads an internal legal team responsible for providing advice on all aspects of LOCOG’s operations, including compliance with contractual obligations under the Host City Contract with the International Olympic Committee, implementation of sponsorship and supply contracts, and protection of the Games brand.

Jonathan Pearl
Corporate Vice President & General Counsel of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB

Sony Ericsson, a 50:50 joint venture between Sony Corporation and LM Ericsson, is the third largest phone handset maker by value in the world with 10,000 employees and a turnover of around US$15 Billion a year. Jonathan is Company Secretary of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, and a member of the company’s Executive Committee. He is responsible for all Sony Ericsson’s IPR and Legal issues and also has other functions, such as Compliance, Anti-Counterfeit, Trade Affairs and Export Control, reporting to him. Jonathan heads a Global team of 70 professionals located in Sweden, France, Germany, U.K., U.S.A., Singapore, Japan and China. Before he joined Sony Ericsson Jonathan spent 12 years working at Sony Electronics Europe, and prior to that he was with Apple Computer. Jonathan is also a Trustee of the legal pro bono charity LawWorks.

Professor Joe Peppard
Professor Peppard holds the Chair in Information Systems and is also Director of the Information Systems Research Centre, the IT Leadership Forum and has recently launched the innovative Cranfield IT Leadership Programme. Over the years he has held academic appointments at Loughborough University, Trinity College Dublin, Groningen University, and the University of South Australia. The focus of Professor Peppard's research and teaching is in the area of information systems and technology strategy and management and he has published widely in academic and general business and management journals.

Anthony Salz
Executive vice chairman, NM Rothschild

Anthony Salz is an executive vice chairman in the investment banking business of Rothschild. Before joining Rothschild in 2006 he spent more than 30 years at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as a corporate lawyer, the last 10 as senior partner. He is a trustee of the Tate Foundation, the Eden Project, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Media Standards Trust, and is a director of habitat for Humanity GB. He is a member of the advisory panel for the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue. He was vice chairman of the BBC Board of Governors from 2004 to 2006. Anthony is a law graduate from Exeter University. In 2003 he received a Business in the Community Ambassador Award for his work relating to homelessness and education.

Sue Woodman
Partnership counsel, Alchemy Partners

Sue is responsible for legal issues relating to the structure, formation and ongoing administration of the Alchemy Investment Plan and the Alchemy Special Situations Fund. Prior to joining Alchemy, Sue was in private practice, initially at Clifford Chance and latterly at Wedlake Saint where she advised on the establishment of Alchemy. Sue is also chairman of the British Venture Capi tal Association's legal and technical committee and a trustee of Merlin.

Rosalind Wright CB QC
Chairman, Fraud Advisory Panel

Rosalind Wright is the Chairman of the Fraud Advisory Panel. She is also an independent member of the DBERR Legal Services Group and Insolvency Service Steering Board and is a member and past Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of OLAF, the European Anti-Fraud Office.

Rosalind was Director of the Serious Fraud Office, from 1997 to April 2003. She was also previously General Counsel and an Executive Director for 10 years at the Securities and Futures Authority, one of the principal City financial services regulators. Prior to taking up that appointment, she was an Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions at the DPP’s Department, where she worked for 18 years, after five years in practice at the Bar.