Robert Venables, Esq

Career: admitted slr 1962, in private practice London, Petersfield and Portsmouth 1962-70; Treasy Slr's Dept: legal asst 1970-73, sr legal asst 1973-80, asst Treasy slr 1980-89; charity cmmr 1989-97, admin dir and sec Cobbe Collection Tst 1997-2000, conslt Bircham Dyson Bell (formerly Bircham & Co) 1997-2007; Bircham Dyson Bell visiting prof of charity law London South Bank Univ 2005-08; memb: Petersfield UDC 1968-71, Int Nuclear Law Assoc 1976-91 (memb Bd 1981-83), First Div Assoc (Exec Ctee 1980-82 and 1987-92, chm Legal Section 1981-83), Law Soc (memb Cncl 1993-2001), City of Westminster Law Soc 1976-2001 (pres 1997-98), City of Westminster and Holborn Law Soc 2001-; tstee: Law Care (formerly SolCare) 1997- (chm 1998-2003 and 2004-07), Incorporated Cncl of Law Reporting for England and Wales 1998-2010, Law Soc Charity 1999-, Vision Aid Overseas 2003-09; co-opted memb E Hants DC 2001 and 2003- (chm Standards Ctee); FRSA 1995