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Mrs Victoria Smith

Biography

Victoria Smith

Victoria qualified as a Solicitor in 1997 and has, since qualification, worked in a number of different legal environments. For many years she was a principal legal advisor in the Magistrates’ Court advising Magistrates’ on law, practice and procedure in the Court room. She then worked in commercial legal practice for a national law firm number of years before leaving practice to follow a portfolio career.

She currently combines a number of roles such as lay member of the House of Commons Standards Committee, Legally Qualified Tribunal Judge and an Independent Member of the Ministry of Defence Service Complaints Panel. She also sits for a number of Regulators on Fitness to Practice Panels.

Victoria is married with grown up children. She lives in South Wales where she is Chair of Governors at her local comprehensive school. In her spare time she enjoys running in the hills around her home, learning to play the piano and arial yoga. She is an enthusiastic if somewhat inept gardener.

 

Committee membership

  • Preliminary Investigation Committee – appointed 2022

 

Declaration of Interests

Directorships
  • Smith Allen Associates Ltd - Director and Company Secretary
  • Franklin and Smith Property Investments and Developments Ltd - Director

Shareholdings
  • Shareholder in the companies listed above.

Consultancies
  • None

Appointments to other bodies
  • None

Membership of other veterinary or allied organisations
  • House of Commons Standards Committee – Lay member
  • MOD Service Complaints Panel – Independent member
  • Property Tribunal – Tribunal Judge (fee paid)
  • Student Loans Company – Independent Assessor
  • Heath and Care Professions Council – Chair of Fitness to Practice panels
  • General Pharmaceutical Council – Lay member of Fitness to Practice Committee
  • General Optical Council – Lay member of Fitness to Practice Committee
  • ICAEW – Lay member of Appeal Panel
  • ACCA – Lay member of the Fitness to Practice Committee

Employment
  • Ad hoc Peripatetic Legal Advisor at Smith Allen Associates Ltd HMCTS

Qualifications (other than veterinary qualifications listed in the Register)
  • LLB (Hons)

Interests relating to immediate family or close friends
  • None

Other relevant information
  • None

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