Richard Clark (Chair)

Former Executive Partner, Slaughter and May

Richard Clark is the former Executive managing partner of Slaughter and May. Richard became a partner in Slaughter and May in 1991 and was a leading litigation lawyer and Head of Dispute of Resolution, with an international practice covering financial institutions, international trade, insurance, fraud and asset tracing, media and Art Law. Richard retired from Slaughter and May in 2017 and is now a leading commercial mediator.

Richard also has a number of non-executive and trustee roles including as a Senior Advisor at Sanctuary Counsel (advising businesses on a range of strategic, communication and reputational issues), trustee of  The King's Fund, and a trustee of the Thrombosis Research Trust. Richard is also an Honorary Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and a Fellow of the Commercial Law Centre at the University of Oxford.

Richard’s former roles include Governor and Board Member of Falmouth University and Council Member of Tate St Ives.

Isabel Parker (Non-Executive Director)

Partner, Deloitte

Isabel is a Partner at Deloitte and has many years of experience in pushing boundaries and driving change in the legal profession. Before joining Deloitte, Isabel was the Executive Director at Digital Legal Exchange and before that the Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she was part of the leadership team driving the firm's digital transformation initiative. Isabel was also accountable for the development of client facing digital products, and worked with a number of corporate legal teams on their digital transformation strategies. During Isabel's tenure, Freshfields was named the FT's Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe in 2019. Isabel herself was named as one of the 10 most innovative lawyers in Europe in 2018, and in 2020 was a winner in the European Women of Legal Tech Awards professional services category.

Isabel is a passionate advocate for change in the legal sector. She sits on a several committees focussed on legal technology adoption and reform of legal education, and is also a mentor for the University of Oxford’s Law and Computer Science Programme.

Jacques Cadranel (Non-Executive Director)

Chair of the Risk & Audit Committee of the British Medical Association and Journal 

Jacques Cadranel’s executive career spanned over 25 years in the commercial arena, with a primary focus in growing and scaling companies.

This included holding a range of finance and strategic roles within established businesses, most recently Group Finance Director of Which?, and CFO-Europe at Thomson Reuters, where the successful development and execution of new plans delivered record growth exceeding all expectations. In addition to this Jacques has also established and scaled a range of new ventures, including his own start-ups, across an number of markets including, consumer legal services, SAAS energy buying platforms and Clean Tech.

In recent years, Jacques has focused in exclusively in non-executive roles and developing an advisory business to scale and grow businesses.

Within this context he currently serves as Chair of the Risk & Audit Committee of the British Medical Association and Journal, and just completed his full seven year tenure at Ordnance Survey as NED and chair of both OS’s Audit and Risk Committee and Pensions Committee.

Joseph Catanzariti (Board member)

Chair, The College of Law

Joseph Catanzariti is a highly experienced employment and workplace relations lawyer who was a Senior Partner and Practice Head at Clayton Utz prior to taking up his current role as Vice President of the Fair Work Commission. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in Work and Organisational Studies, School of Business at Sydney University and Visiting Professorial Fellow, School of Law, Faculty of Law at University of NSW.

Joseph was appointed to the Board of the The College of Law Limited in 2009 and has served as Chair since that time. He is also Chair of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Nominations Advisory Committee and Director of College of Law New Zealand Limited.

In the 2016 Australia Day Awards, Joseph was made a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law, to legal education, to labour and to professional legal bodies.

Neville Carter (Board member)

Chief Executive Officer and Principal, The College of Law

Neville Carter has extensive experience designing and managing large professional education programs along with a strong background in business and management training for the legal profession. He was appointed to the Board of The College of Law Limited in 2009 and is a member of the Executive Committee and the Nominations Advisory Committee and is a Director of The College of Law New Zealand Limited.

Prior to his current role he has held positions as the Managing Director of The College of Law Limited; National Director, Institute of Professional Legal Studies, New Zealand; Associate Professor and Head of School of Legal Practice, UTS and Chair of the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council.

In the 2018 Australia Day Awards, Neville was made a member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his significant service to legal education through executive roles, to the law as a legal practitioner, and to professional standards.

Giles Proctor (Chief Executive Officer)

Dr Giles Proctor qualified as a solicitor with Addleshaw Goddard in Manchester and practiced in corporate and commercial law before entering teaching and completing his PhD.

Giles has designed and delivered commercial diploma courses and corporate training for ‘magic circle’ law firms, whilst at Nottingham Law School and the University of Law. He managed the successful opening of Kaplan Law School, delivering postgraduate legal education, in partnership with Nottingham Law School, to over 16 City firms. Whilst leading Kaplan Law School , the Law School was contracted by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to design and develop the assessment for the changing QLTS exam regime, which has now shaped the SQE assessment regime.

Giles helped found Roehampton Law School (the Law School), which opened in September 2015, the teaching at the Law School being guided by the philosophy of ‘law in practice’, teaching law to students in the context of legal practice, using tutors who are overwhelmingly ex-practitioners. He joined The College of Legal Practice as Chief Executive Officer in February 2020 and leads our business engagement, collaborating with firms and Universities to develop bespoke training programmes around professional education, including SQE.

Peter Liver (Chief Operations Director)

Peter Liver was previously Executive Director for Membership at the Law Society England and Wales where he led on the development of education, learning and training. He also shaped the wider Membership proposition which included accreditations, publications and events.

Peter has extensive senior leadership experience working in the not for profit sector including having been Chief Executive Director for ChildLine UK, and previously Executive Director at the NSPCC. He also set up a Charitable Foundation raising several million pounds which was donated to three children’s charities.

Peter joined The College of Legal Practice in April 2019 as Chief Operations Director and works closely with the CEO and its not for profit parent company The College of Law.

Meet our academic team