Derek Wood, Esq, CBE, QC

Career: called to the Bar Middle Temple 1964 (bencher 1986, treas 2006); recorder of the Crown Court 1985-2002; princ St Hugh's Coll Oxford 1991-2002 (now hon fell); Dept of the Environment: memb Advsy Gp on Commercial Property Devpt 1975-78, memb Working Gp on New Forms of Social Ownership in Housing 1976, memb Property Advsy Gp 1978-94, chm Review of Rating of Plant and Machinery 1991 and 1996-98; chm: Standing Advsy Ctee on Trunk Rd Assessment Dept of Tport 1986-94, Working Pty on Code of Practice for Commercial Leases in England and Wales 1995, Bar Standards Bd Review of Bar Vocational Course 2005, Pupillage 2009, CPU 2010; drafted Univ of Oxford's Code of Statutes 2000-04; memb Cncl London Borough of Bromley 1975-78; dep chm Soc of Labour Lawyers 1978-91, chm Chislehurst Constituency Lab Pty 1972-76 and 1979?84, cncllr London Borough of Bromley 1975-78; memb Governing Cncl RICS 2003-06; chm: Oxfordshire Community Fndn 1995-2001, Attlee Fndn 2004-10 (tstee 2002-10); govr Quintin Kynaston Sch 2003-; hon fell UC Oxford 2002; hon fell Central Assoc of Agric Valuers 1988, Hon RICS 1991; FCIArb 1993

Books and Publications: Leasehold Enfranchisement and Extension (ed, part of Halsbury's Laws of England series), Handbook of Arbitration Practice (jt ed, 1987, 2 edn 1993, 3 edn 1998); contrib to various works on property law