Commissioners

Her Honour Judge Angela Rafferty KC was appointed to the JAC as a Judicial Commissioner on 9 June 2024. Angela was called to the Bar in 1995, appointed a Recorder in 2009 and took silk in 2015.  Since 2019, Angela has sat as a Senior Circuit Judge in the Central Criminal Court.

Angela is a contributing editor to Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice, and co-author of Chapter ‘Advocacy and the Vulnerable’ in Rook and Ward, as well as being a regular contributor and author for national and academic publications. She also trains the judiciary in Scotland and Northern Ireland in the management and approach to vulnerable people in criminal cases, trains Metropolitan Police Officers in cases of serious sexual offences and is a Judicial College Murder course tutor.

Upper Tribunal Judge Clive Lane was admitted as a solicitor in 1985 and was in private practice until 2001. He was a Legal Chair of the Appeals Service (now Social Entitlement Chamber) from 1999 until 2007.

He was appointed a Deputy District Judge (Civil) in 2001. He served as an Immigration Judge from 2001 until 2009 when he was appointed a Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber).

Since 2021, he has been authorised to sit as a Judge of the High Court (Family Division). In 2024, he was appointed a Justice of the Court of Appeal of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Clive was appointed to the JAC as a Senior Judicial Commissioner for a term of three years on 1 July 2025.

Noel was appointed to the JAC as a Judicial Commissioner for a term of three years on 1 January 2024.

Noel became a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) in April 2020 having previously been appointed as a fee-paid First-tier judge in the same jurisdiction. He was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in April 2006.
He was the Co-chair of the Association of Lawyers for Children from 2017 to 2019 and was a committee member of the Law Society’s Children Law sub-committee for 10 years.

He currently sits on the Senior President of Tribunal’s Diversity Task Force.

Mr Justice Adam Johnson was appointed to the JAC as a Judicial Commissioner on 1 October 2022.

Adam was admitted as a solicitor in 1990 and took silk in 2017. He served as a Deputy High Court Judge from 2018 to 2020 and was appointed to the High Court, Chancery Division in 2020.

Tanweer was appointed to the JAC as a Judicial Commissioner for a term of three years from 14 December 2023.

In 2017, Tanweer was appointed Deputy Senior District Judge (Chief Magistrate) and District Judge (Magistrates’ Courts) in 2009. He also served as an Associate Judge on the Sovereign Base Area of Episkopi and Dhekelia (Cyprus). He was called to the Bar in 1990, admitted as a solicitor in 1993 and is now a Bencher at Inner Temple.

In 2004, he was appointed Deputy Lead Diversity and Community Relations Judge where he leads 150 judges engaged in diversity work. In 2022, he was awarded a CBE for services to judicial diversity.

Uche was appointed to the JAC as a Non-Legally Qualified Judicial Commissioner for a term of three years on 1 January 2024.

Uche, since 2004, works as a consultant histopathologist for Barking, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) University Hospitals NHS. In 2018 BHR University Hospitals NHS Trust appointed Uche as Clinical Lead for histopathology and Pathology Clinical Director until March 2024.

He was appointed a magistrate in 2006 and for over 10 years has been a presiding justice in both the adult criminal court and the family panel.

Christopher was appointed to the JAC as a Lay Commissioner for a term of three years on 1 January 2024.

Since 2018, Christopher has been Chair of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and is a Non-Executive Director (NED) at three other organisations.
He is a non-lawyer who has been appointed to expert and advisory Panels and worked on Lord Bellamy’s Criminal Legal Aid Review. Christopher has been a Member of the Criminal Legal Aid Advisory Board from 2022 to 2023.

Clare was appointed to the JAC as a Lay Commissioner for a term of three years on 1 January 2024.

Since 2004, Clare has served as Professor of Law at the University of Durham with particular expertise in the legal regulation of online abuse and sexual offending.

Clare was appointed an honorary King’s Counsel in 2020 in recognition of her work championing equality in the legal profession and the influence of her research in shaping new criminal laws.

In 2019, she was appointed a member of Parliament’s Independent Expert Panel.

Sarah was appointed to the JAC as a Lay Commissioner for a term of three years in October 2025. She is also a Civil Service Commissioner, independent Non-Executive Director and governance specialist. Within the state-funded and independent education sector, she has advised on operations, finance, stakeholder management, governance and capital projects.  

She has worked with and for the Department for Education, academy trusts, local authorities and independent schools’ groups. She is on the Interviewing Committee for the INSEAD Louis Franck Scholarship Award and has previously been a trustee of The Knowledge Schools Trust and Bourne Education Trust, where she chaired the Audit and Risk Committee. She has held other governance roles following her earlier career in consulting. 

Siwan Davies was appointed to the JAC as Lay Commissioner with knowledge of Welsh matters on 1 December 2025 for a term of three years. 

Siwan had a distinguished international career in parliamentary service, with expertise in strategic leadership in political environments, governance, ethical leadership and organisational change. Siwan has extensive experience of statutory and senior appointments and Welsh matters and has served as non-legal director of lawyers in different organisations. A native Welsh speaker, she lives in west Wales.

Tony was appointed to the JAC as a Lay Commissioner on 1 October 2025 for a term of 3 years. 

After a very varied 35-year career as an Army officer, Tony went into a FTSE 100 company in 2011 working on major contract bids. In 2016 he joined the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn as Under Treasurer (Chief Executive). He left at the end of 2022 and was made an Honorary Bencher of the Inn.   

Following consultancy work on a military training project, Tony was appointed as Chair of the UK Radiation Protection Council in January 2025. Later that year, he became the Deputy Chair of Trustees at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. 

Nicolina Andall  has been appointed to the JAC as a Professional Commissioner for a term of three years commencing 1 July 2024. She has been a Qualified Solicitor since 2001 with her professional history spanning the City and 3 International Companies as Senior Counsel including latterly as an Executive Director.  She has been a member of the Advisory Board for Halsburys Laws of England since 2016.

Since 2018, Nicolina has been an Independent Panel Member for the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Transport.  She was appointed as a Lay Member of the London Recruitment Advisory Committee, Lord Chancellor’s Department in 2020 and was promoted to Deputy Chair in 2024.   She has been a NED for a range of organisations for the past 10 years including being Chair of her Local Chamber of Commerce.

Tom Cross KC was appointed to the JAC as a professional (barrister) member on 1 July 2024. He was called to the Bar in 2007, and practises from 11KBW Chambers specialising in a range of areas including public and regulatory law, civil liberties and human rights, education, professional discipline, and employment law. He acts for a wide range of parties in different types of cases, and in a variety of venues: from Tribunals to the Supreme Court.

Much of his work concerns issues of equality or discrimination law. His current appointments include the Attorney-General’s ‘A’ Panel of Crown Counsel and the “A” Panel of Counsel of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He was appointed as King’s Counsel on 24 January 2025.