Appointment of a Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber: Bird
The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Chris Grayling MP, has appointed Lynne Patricia Bird to be a Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned to the Social Entitlement Chamber, to exercise the Social Security and Child Support jurisdiction within that Chamber, based at Leeds.
She will take up post with effect from 14 April 2014.
Notes to editors
Lynne Patricia Bird, aged 51, will be known as Tribunal Judge Bird. She was admitted as a Solicitor in 1986. She was appointed as a Fee-Paid Legally Qualified Panel Member of the Appeal Tribunals in 2001, becoming a Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned to the Social Entitlement Chamber (Social Security and Child Support) in 2008.
