Appointment of a Salaried Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, Social Entitlement Chamber: Barber
The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Chris Grayling MP, has appointed Phillip Arthur Barber 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 Wakefield.
He will take up post with effect from 3 March 2014.
Notes to editors
Phillip Arthur Barber, aged 48, will be known as Tribunal Judge Barber. He was called to the Bar (G) in 1991 and was admitted as a Solicitor in 1999. He was appointed as a Fee-Paid Legally Qualified Panel Member of the Appeal Tribunals in 2002, becoming a Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, assigned to the Social Entitlement Chamber (Social Security and Child Support) in 2008. He was also appointed as a Fee-paid Lawyer Chairman of the Rent Assessment Panel in 2006, which transferred into the First-tier Tribunal, Property Chamber in 2013.
