The Right Hon Sir Robin Auld



Former Lord Justice Auld sat on the Court of Appeal of England and Wales from 1995 to 2007, and was for some time the Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales.

He was Counsel to the Inquiry into the Brixton Disorders in 1981, and for the British Government before the Australian Royal Commission into British Nuclear tests in Australia in 1984-85, Chairman of the William Tyndale Schools Inquiry from 1975-76 and of the Inquiry into Sunday Trading from 1983-84. In 1999-2000, he conducted the review of the Criminal Courts of England and Wales. He also has experience of the region, having served as Member of the Commission into Casino Gambling in the Bahamas during 1967, as acting Chief Justice of the TCI for a short period in 2005, and now as a Justice of the Court of Appeal, Bermuda.


Counsel to the Inquiry - Alex Milne

Alex Milne is a practising barrister in the United Kingdom, and a Recorder of the Crown Court. He was called to the Bar in 1981 and has worked in the City of London and for Amnesty International. For the last 21 years he has specialised in criminal trial advocacy, appearing in a wide range of criminal trials. Between 2001-2004 he appeared as counsel before the Bloody Sunday Tribunal into alleged shootings by British soldiers in Londonderry in 1972. From 2004 to 2006, he was responsible for drafting the report arising from the review into the death in custody of Christopher Alder for the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).


Counsel to the Inquiry - Sarah Clark

Sarah Clark is a practising barrister in England and Wales.  She was educated at the University of Cambridge and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 2004.  Sarah spent the following year in Malawi, East Africa working with the Legal Aid Department reviewing homicide cases where prisoners are on remand for up to seven years.  After completing her pupillage at 18 Red Lion Court in 2005, Sarah was taken on as a tenant.  She now specialises in Criminal Litigation, both for the Defence and the Crown and has been instructed alone in a range of complex matters in the Crown Court as well as being a led Junior.  Between February to May 2008 she was seconded to the Serious Crime Division of Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office.


Secretary to the Inquiry - Laurance O'Dea


Assistant Secretary to the Inquiry - Bahar Ala-eddini
Bahareh Ala-eddini was educated at King’s College London and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 2008.  She is a part-time lecturer at the University of East London for the module Criminal Justice Process.  Prior to starting her Law degree Bahareh worked at York St John College (part of the University of Leeds) as Research Assistant on a project analysing the attitudes of 14-25 year olds towards Muslims and Arabs post-9/11 and the War in Iraq.  Since April 2008 Bahareh has worked as an Associate Hospital Manager (Mental Health) for the South London & Maudsley Trust.  Her role involves sitting on a lay panel responsible for deciding whether a patient’s section should be renewed/revoked under the Mental Health Act 2008.  From April to October 2008 Bahareh undertook a part-time internship with the Institute of Criminal Policy Research under the supervision of Tim McSweeney, to evaluate the criminal justice-based treatment interventions across the Thames Valley.

Solicitor to the Inquiry - Jacqueline Duff LL.B.

Since being admitted as a Solicitor in 1980, Jacqueline has worked as a government lawyer with the Crown Prosecution Service, Department of Trade and Industry, Serious Fraud Office and Treasury Solicitor. In 1999 she established her own firm, which specialises in criminal law, prosecuting criminal and regulatory cases on behalf of a number of UK government departments and agencies. The firm has also been involved in a number of Public Inquiries and Formal Investigations, including Bloody Sunday, The Derbyshire, The Gaul, Mubarek and Victoria Climbie.