The Lord Chancellor, after consultation with the Lord
Chief Justice, has approved the appointment of Gary Kildare, as a
Lay Member of the Legal Services Board, for four years from 1 April
2021.
Gary Kildare is the former Chief HR Officer Europe and Global
Head of Labour Relations for the IBM Corporation. He is also: a
Non-Executive Director (NED) of the Insolvency Service; a NED of
the Defence Infrastructure Organisation in the Ministry of
Defence (MOD) and Chair of the People Committee; and a board
member of the British Quality Foundation.
Gary is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and
Development, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Global Scot
and a visiting professor in business at Edinburgh Napier Business
School.
he Legal Services Board (LSB) is the independent body responsible
for overseeing the regulation of lawyers in England and Wales.
The LSB came into being on 1 January 2009 and took on the
majority of its statutory powers on 1 January 2010.
The LSB’s goal is to reform and modernise the legal services
market place by putting the interests of consumers at the heart
of the system. It is independent of government and the legal
profession and oversees the approved regulators, which themselves
regulate lawyers.
The LSB also oversees the Office for Legal Complaints and its
administration of the Legal Ombudsman scheme that resolves
complaints about lawyers.
This appointment has been made in accordance with the Cabinet
Office Governance Code on Public Appointments and is regulated by
the Commissioner for Public Appointments.
The appointment of Lay Members of the LSB are made by the Lord
Chancellor in consultation with the Lord Chief Justice for
England and Wales.
