Anja Lansbergen-Mills appointed to Civil Procedure Rule Committee

September 28, 2018

The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice has appointed Dr Anja Lansbergen-Mills from Exchange Chambers as a barrister member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) from 12 October 2018 for 3 years.

The CPRC is a non-departmental public body which makes rules of court, for the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the County Court. CPRC is chaired by the Master of the Rolls and comprises 16 members – 8 judicial (of which 6 are appointed by the Lord Chief Justice) and 8 non-judicial (appointed by the Lord Chancellor in consultation with the Master of the Rolls).

Dr Lansbergen-Mills was called to the Bar in 2014 and practices in commercial and chancery law.

She is a committee member of both the Northern Chancery Bar Association and the Northern Circuit Commercial Bar Association.

Dr Lansbergen-Mills is keen to promote social mobility and diversity at the Bar, to which end she has participated in a ‘Law Futures Day’ organised by the Social Mobility Foundation and in the ‘Pathways to Law’ initiative developed by the College of Law and the Sutton Trust (delivered by Eversheds Sutherland as ‘Eversheds Unlocked’). She is helping to organise the Chancery Bar Association’s forthcoming ‘Women at the Chancery Bar’ conference and has spoken as a panellist in a discussion of the experience of women in the legal sector.

Before she was called to the Bar Dr Lansbergen-Mills completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, during which time she was employed by the University in various research posts and taught EU Law to both undergraduate and master’s students.