The Law Society Council Elections 2020

Stay home and vote!

As many readers may know, the Law Society Council elections open on Monday 17 August. This is your chance to elect representatives who will champion your views on a national level. One candidate each will be elected to the constituencies of The City of Westminster and Holborn to join our other three elected representatives, and if you are a solicitor member of this Society or are registered in either constituency with the SRA, then you will be receiving voting papers on or around 17 August.

The Westminster & Holborn Law Society has the privilege of sending five representatives in total to sit at Chancery Lane (or via Zoom, as has been the case recently). This number is only matched by The City of London and highlights the traditional importance that our unique location has had playing host to solicitors and their businesses.

For this election, the ballot papers will be sent by Civica Election Services by post to the member’s mySRA registered address and by email (to those, who opted-in to receive email communications) from the takepart@cesvotes.com email address.

We encourage members to ensure that their organisation’s mail rooms are aware of those papers coming in. We suggest that to avoid being caught in spam/junk filters, mail rooms “whitelist” the takepart@cesvotes.com email address by adding it to their contacts.

You will find the election manifestos of your six candidates below (in alphabetical order) and I urge you to take the few moments required to vote in due course. This is your local law society and it can work to its full potential when members speak up and are engaged.

The successful candidates will be announced at the Law Society AGM on 15 October 2020.

Voting will close at 4pm on Monday 21 September. ■

Matthew Allan

Junior Vice President

Westminster & Holborn Law Society

Election Candidates

The City of Westminster

Edward Macey-Dare

Nicola Rubbert

Nehal Vasani

Holborn

Pavel Klimov

Paul Sharma

Rakhi Samani