Case studies

I was appointed to the Property Tribunal in 2023 and fit in Tribunal work around my day job, working full-time as an architect in Sheffield.

I grew up in South London, went to the local grammar school, and was the first person in my family ever to go to university.  I qualified as a solicitor in the late 1980s and have spent most of my career in commercial dispute resolution.

Aneeta qualified as a Solicitor in 1998. She is a Solicitor Advocate and one of the four founding partners of ABV Solicitors. Aneeta was appointed a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates’ Court) in 2009.

I had completed my law degree and Legal Practice Course and was searching for a training contract in order to qualify as a solicitor when I spotted an advert for a trainee solicitor post within local government.

I am a solicitor advocate; I started my legal working life in the City, doing insurance, banking and regulatory litigation.

Anyone who met me as a child would not have thought I would have become a judge, let alone a judicial lead with the title of President.

My own background is rooted in social housing. I was born and raised in a multicultural, working-class, urban environment, with the additional life experience of having been homeless myself.

I grew up in suburban London and attended the local comprehensive school before studying law at university, I was the first in my family to go to university.

David Chrimes is a (salaried) District Tribunal Judge of the Social Entitlement Chamber, in the SE Region, based at Luton Magistrates’ Court.