Combar’s officers and committees

Combar operates through its Officers and the members of its Executive Committee.

Its Officers and Executive Committee members are members of Combar who serve voluntarily after being appointed in Combar’s Annual General Meeting.

Combar’s present Officers and Executive Committee members are as follows:

Officers

Chair: Henry King KC (Fountain Court Chambers)
Vice-Chair/Treasurer: Philippa Hopkins KC (Essex Court Chambers)
Secretary: Fionn Pilbrow KC (Brick Court Chambers)
Equality and Diversity Committee Chair, Anna Boase KC (One Essex Court)
Consultation Chair: Anneliese Day KC (Fountain Court Chambers)
Chair, International Committee: Jeremy Richmond KC (Quadrant Chambers)

Executive Committee members 

Yash Bheeroo (3 Verulam Buildings)
Andrew Burns KC (Devereux Chambers)
Niamh Cleary (Fountain Court Chambers)
Josephine Higgs KC (7 Kings Bench Walk)
Zulfikar Khayum (Atkin Chambers)
Gemma Morgan (Quadrant Chambers)
Helen Morton (Essex Court Chambers)
Tom Mountford (Blackstone Chambers)
Thomas Munby KC (Maitland Chambers)
Luke Pearce KC (Twenty Essex)
Alex Potts KC (4 Pump Court)
George Spalton KC (4 New Square Chambers)

Combar Chambers’ Committee Representatives

Samar Abbas Kazmi / Nicholas Maciolek (Atkin Chambers)
Matthew Abraham (South Square)
Imran Benson (Hailsham Chambers)
Stuart Benzie (Radcliffe Chambers)
Emily Betts (Gatehouse Chambers)
Timothy Frith (Lamb Chambers)
Veronique Buehrlen KC (Keating Chambers)
Nick Daly (Fountain Court Chambers)
Marc Delehanty (Serle Court)
Gregory Denton-Cox (4 Stone Buildings)
Anton Dudnikov (Essex Court Chambers)
Henry Ellis (Quadrant Chambers)
Arshad Ghaffar /Erin Hitchens (XXIV Old Buildings)
Harry Gillow  (Monckton Chambers)
Orlando Gledhill KC (One Essex Court)
Ben Griffiths (Erskine Chambers)
Michal Hain (Twenty Essex)
Richard Harrison (Devereux Chambers)
Michael Holmes (7 KBW)
Ben John (Maitland Chambers)
Simon Johnson (Enterprise Chambers)
William Clerk (2 Temple Gardens)
Luka Krsljanin (Blackstone Chambers)
Amardeep Dhillon (Five Paper)
David Lascelles (Littleton Chambers)
Kate Livesey (4 Pump Court)
David Lord KC (Three Stone)
Shail Patel KC (4 New Square)
Georgina Petrova (Brick Court Chambers)
Helen Pugh (Outer Temple Chambers)
Richard Samuel (3 Hare Court)
Daniel Stilitz KC (11 KBW)
Carlo Taczalski (Crown Office Chambers)
Adam Temple (3 VB)
Karishma Vora (39 Essex Chambers)
Sarah Walker (Selborne Chambers)
John Wardell KC (Wilberforce Chambers)
Henry Warwick KC (Henderson Chambers)
Hermione Williams (New Square Chambers)
Emile Yusupoff (The 36 Group)

Individual Members’ Representatives

Shobana Iyer (Swan Chambers)
Duncan Macpherson  (1EC Barristers)
Nichola Gibson (Matrix Chambers)

Sub-committees

Combar also operates a number of sub-committees who have responsibility for particular aspects of Combar’s activities and operations. The following are presently Chairs of these committees:

Africa Committee Co-Chairs: Jamie Goldsmith KC (One Essex Court), Jamsheed Peeroo (36 Stone)

Consultation, Policy and Reform Committee: Chair, Anneliese Day KC (Fountain Court Chambers)

Continuing Education Programme Chair: Josephine Higgs KC (7 Kings Bench Walk); Vice-Chair: Gerard Rothschild (Brick Court Chambers)

Gulf Committee Chair: Saima Hanif KC
Sophia Hurst (Serle Court)
Ali Al-Karim (Brick Court Chambers)
Timothy Killen (3VB)
Tim Lau (Blackstone Chambers)
James Leabeater KC (4 Pump Court)
Khadija Leuenberger (36 Stone)
Zoe O’Sullivan KC (Serle Court)
Philip Punwar (Outer Temple Chambers)
Andrew Spink KC (Outer Temple Chambers)
Justina Stewart (Outer Temple Chambers)
Karishma Vora (39 Essex Chambers)
Michael Wheater KC (Gatehouse Chambers)

Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity Chair Anna Boase KC:

Black Inclusion Chair – Zulfikar Khayum
Women’s Equality Chair – Georgina Peters
Disability Chair – James MacDonald KC

India and Asia Committee Chair: Sapna Jhangiani KC (Blackstone Chambers) Vice Chair: Chintan Chandrachud (Brick Court Chambers)

Junior COMBAR Chair: Andrew McLeod (One Essex Court); Vice-Chair: Ravi Jackson (3 Verulam Buildings)

North America Committee Chair: Tom Mountford (Blackstone Chambers)
Vice-Chair: Andrew Burns KC (Devereux Chambers)
Rumen Cholakov (3 Verulam Buildings)
Katherine Ratcliffe (Essex Court Chambers)

Offshore Committee Chair: George Spalton KC (4 New Square Chambers) ; offshore-based Co-Chairs; Quentin Cregan (Maples Group); Hannah Tildesley (Walkers Global); Andrew Willins KC (Appleby)

Pro Bono Initiatives Co-Chairs: Alice Carse (4 Pump Court), Michael Ryan (7 Kings Bench Walk)

Mentoring Scheme for Under-represented Groups Committee
Co-Chairs: Emily Betts (Gatehouse Chambers), James Thompson (Keating Chambers)
Adam Baradon KC (Blackstone Chambers)
Lucy Colter (Four New Square)
Daniel Corteville (7KBW)
Philippa Hopkins KC (Essex Court Chambers)
Tamara Kagan (One Essex Court)
Zulfikar Khayam (Atkin Chambers)
Adam Temple (3 VB)
Ben Lask (Monckton Chambers)
Angharad Parry (Twenty Essex)
Craig Ulyatt (Fountain Court Chambers)
Ben Woolgar (Brick Court Chambers)

Wellbeing and Mentoring Committee Chair: Oliver Caplin KC (Twenty Essex); Vice-Chair: Helen Morton (Essex Court Chambers)

Practitioner Mentoring Committee Chair: Sa’ad Hossein KC (One Essex Court); Vice-Chair: Gemma Morgan (Quadrant Chambers)

Junior Advocacy Committee Chair: Philippa Hopkins KC (Essex Court Chambers)