Helen is Chairman of the Queen’s Counsel Appointments Selection Panel. Helen has been a member of the Panel since 2009 and its chair since 2012. Helen also chairs a national children’s charity, a boardroom excellence consultancy and is lead director for a major global chocolate and biscuit company.
As the 2016-17 Silk cohort is announced, Counsel probes the appointments system with the Chairman of the Queen’s Counsel Selection Panel, Helen Pitcher OBE
Q The basic principle of Queen’s Counsel Appointments (QCA) has always been that the process should be open, fair and transparent. But over the years, the process itself has been refined. What have been the major changes and how were the lessons learned – that is, how was it determined that something else would work better?
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