Equality and Diversity Committee

CHAIR

Catherine Edwards
Keele University

Senior Practitioner in Law

c.edwards@keele.ac.uk

VICE-CHAIR

OTHER MEMBERS

Premdeep Ahark – Blackhams incorporating Allsopp & Co
Associate

Shapla Begum – Freeths LLP
Legal Assistant

Monika Bindal – Crown Prosecution Service
Solicitor

Natalie Carman – Shakespeare Martineau
Solicitor

Rupi Chandla – Eversheds Sutherland
Associate

Hannah Dookhun – Capsticks Solicitors LLP
Solicitor

Timothy Evans – Gowling WLG
Principal Associate

Lorna Gavin – Gowling WLG (UK) LLP
Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Corporate Responsibility

Kiran Hayre – Higgs & Sons Solicitors
Solicitor

Amy Hextell – Pinsent Masons LLP
Solicitor

Melanie Isherwood – Weightmans LLP
Partner

Steven Jonas – Jonas Roy Bloom
Partner

Julia Jones – Bevan Brittan LLP
Senior Associate

Alice Kinder – Bexley Beaumont
Senior Associate

Julia Lowe – Higgs & Sons Solicitors
Partner

Emily Morris – Irwin Mitchell LLP
Paralegal

Nwabueze Nwokolo
Solicitor

Dinah Patel – Higgs & Sons Solicitors
Associate

Kerry Russell – Shakespeare Martineau
Solicitor

Emily Rust – DWF LLP
Trainee Solicitor

Eileen Schofield – Schofield & Associates
Principal, Chair of Birmingham Law Society Board

Makhan Singh – Murria Solicitors Limited
Solicitor

Sonya Smith – Birmingham City University
Associate Professor; Employability & Vocational Legal Education

Kathryn Stewart – Capsticks Solicitors LLP
Solicitor

Sharon Thandi – Devonshires Solicitors
Solicitor

Linden Thomas – University of Birmingham Law School
Solicitor

James Turner – Tuckers Solicitors LLP
Partner