Ms Catharine Seddon

Biography

Catharine spent 20 years as a film maker. She started as a graduate trainee producer with the BBC and soon specialised in high-end film documentary, ultimately setting up her own production company which made films principally for C4. Having been a magistrate since 2002, she eventually left television to take up other judicial roles and to become a member of the Human Tissue Authority, its Audit and Risk Chair and its Senior Independent Director.

Catharine is the Deputy Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and Chair of its Audit and Governance committee. She is a board member of CAFCASS (Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service) and an Institute Director of CII (Chartered Insurance Institute), appointed to the board of the PFS (Personal Finance Society). A former Senior Independent Director of the Gambling Commission, the Legal Services Board and member of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator, she now sits on the Health Service Products Appeal tribunal and on tribunals in mental health and employment. She also sits as a lay assessor on civil cases in the County courts and she is still a presiding magistrate in Central London courts.  She is a tutor for the Civil Service College and a trustee and director of the special needs charity, CPotential.

Committee membership

• Disciplinary Committee

Declaration of interests