Just weeks after bringing in a former chief executive of Cheshire and Kent County Councils, Sir Michael Pitt, to succeed David Edmonds CBE as chairman, the Legal Services Board has announced the appointment of David Eveleigh, general counsel to BT’s global services division, and Marina Gibbs, a director of competition policy at watchdog Ofcom, as non-executive board members of the regulatory body.
Announced by the Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice yesterday (10 April), the positions arose as the terms of independent consumer consultant Barbara Saunders and Lloyds Banking Group’s group general counsel Andrew Whittaker ended in March. The LSB has also lost Stephen Green, who resigned from the board to assume the chair of the Office for Legal Complaints.
