Mental health and disability committee fact file CHAIRMAN

Carolyn Kirby is the deputy vice-president of the Law Society and the council member for Mid and West Wales.

She has been in private practice in Swansea since 1979.

During six years as a non-executive director of a health authority, she sat on managers' hearings for psychiatric patients.

In 1996 she was appointed as a legal member of the mental health review tribunal, becoming chairman for Wales in 1999.

She represents the interests of clients with severe disabilities and is chairman of Cancer Information Support Services, a charity offering support to cancer sufferers.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Meg Andrews, Law Society Council member, Hartley & Worstenholme, West YorkshirePaul Bacon, Bryan & Armstrong, MansfieldMarion Chester, Association of Community Health Councils, LondonLuke Clements, solicitor, HerefordProfessor Nigel Eastman, consultant forensic psychiatrist, barrister, St George's Hospital, LondonPeter Edwards, Peter Edwards & Co, LiverpoolPhil Fennell, senior law lecturer, Cardiff Law SchoolRichard Gordon QC, Brick Court Chambers, LondonKate Harrison, Scott-Moncrieff Harbour & Sinclair, LondonNicola Mackintosh, Mackintosh Duncan, LondonEvelyn McEwen, Age Concern England (now retired)David Ruebain, David Levene & Co, LondonLucy Scott-Moncrieff, Scott-Moncrieff Harbour & Sinclair, LondonRichard Stein, Leigh Day & Co, Londonl For information about the work of the committee contact Ashmita Shah at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL.