Commissioners

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.

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 18 February 2025.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.