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London Region Courts Board
The London Region Courts Board is made up of people from different parts of the community and the judiciary. We work in partnership with HMCS London, the organisation responsible for the administration of the courts in the capital.
We focus on the key issues for London’s magistrates’, Crown and county courts including public confidence, customer service, buildings, trials, delays to proceedings, future plans and services provided to local communities. We are not, however, a forum for challenging or discussing judicial decisions or individual cases.
Board Members
The Board is made up of seven people from different parts of the community and the judiciary. The Courts Act 2003 (include link to first HMCS courts board page) states that each board must have:
- at least one judge
- at least two magistrates from within the Courts Boards area
- at least two people with knowledge or experience of the courts in the local area
- at least two people who are representative of the people living in the Courts Boards area.
London Region Courts Board members
| Derek Sawyer | Chair (Courts) |
| Judge Vera Mayer | (Judiciary) |
| Dr Rohan Collier | (Community) |
| Anthony Hazeldine CBE | (Magistrate) |
| Simon Pellew OBE | (Community) |
| Diane Sebastian | (Magistrate) |
| His Honour Judge Martyn Zeidman Q.C. | (Judiciary) |
| Raj Chada | (Courts) |
- Derek Sawyer is the Chair of the London Region Courts Board. As a councillor in Islington, he was actively involved in supporting and promoting crime prevention and safer communities. For many years Derek was the spokesperson for London local government on community safety and policing and was appointed by the Home Secretary to be a member of the Metropolitan Police Committee. He was the Deputy Chairman of the Greater London Magistrates Courts Authority, and has been involved in a wide variety of local and national charities concerned with heritage, the regeneration of inner city areas, and community safety; and was also a member of the Council of City University for fifteen years. Derek is also a Trustee of Crime Concern, the national crime prevention charity, having been a member of its Board since 1994.
Derek Sawyer
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Vera Mayer is a Circuit Judge, appointed in 2002. She sits in the county and crown courts and also in the Family Division. Before her appointment she was a member of the Bar for 24 years, specializing in family and children’s law
Judge Vera Mayer
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- Rohan Collier has been a consultant in equality and diversity since September 2003. Clients include several London Boroughs, Government departments, Health Authorities and the Law Society. Until August 2003 Rohan was the Head of Equality and Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service. She has been a university lecturer, and has written many books and articles on equality and diversity. Rohan is also a trustee of 'Standing Together', a London-based domestic violence charity.
Dr Rohan Collier
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- Tony Hazeldine is a magistrate on the Sutton bench, and has been human resources director in a number of civil service departments. He is a school governor, a member of the Judicial Studies Board, and serves on the Membership Council of the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Tony is also on the Standards Committee of the London Borough of Sutton.
Anthony Hazeldine CBE
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- Simon Pellew runs a charity, Time for Families, that provides relationship education for prisoners and their partners. Previously Simon set up and ran another charity working with unemployed people and refugees in Peckham. Simon is interested in management issues with regard to the running of the courts service, especially finance and IT.
Simon Pellew OBE
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- Dee Sebastian is a full-time broadcaster and journalist with the BBC World Service. As a freelance she does ‘voiceover’ work, and has just completed a series of films called World Challenge – a competition to encourage entrepreneurs in the developing world who can make money while preserving the environment. She is a magistrate on the Haringey Bench, in Adult and Youth courts. Dee is a volunteer counsellor for Childline.
Diane Sebastian
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- Martyn Zeidman is a Circuit Judge appointed in 2001. He has a mixed itinerary sitting primarily on crime at Snaresbrook Crown Court but also spending 50 days a year at Edmonton County Court (civil and family cases) and 20 days as President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal for restricted cases. He was called to the Bar in 1974, took silk in 1998 and had a mixed civil and criminal practice. He is chairman of a marriage guidance council and was appointed to the London Courts Board in 2007.
His Honour Judge Martyn Zeidman Q.C.
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- Raj Chada is a Partner at Hodge Jones and Allen, specialising in criminal litigation with particular expertise in fraud, drug trafficking, money laundering and public order offences. Raj previously worked for Amnesty International and in the US for a centre that represented prisoners on death row. He has also undertaken a human rights mission abroad to collect evidence for war crimes prosecutions. Raj is a member of Liberty, Amnesty International, Haldane Society, Young Fraud Lawyers Association and London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association (LCCSA). He was previously the Leader of Camden Council and was instrumental in its pioneering work on antisocial behaviour.
Raj Chada
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