There is one main board:

Our committee oversees the work that we do.

This Committee is made up of Directors and lay members.

Rita Leat, Special Adviser, CILEX

Rita Leat, PPR's Managing DirectorRita Leat took up post as the COO for The National Association of Licensed Paralegals in 2011 managing the strategic and operational functions of the organisation. She added to her role in 2013 by becoming the Responsible Officer for Ofqual, dealing with compliance. Rita became a founder Director of The Professional Paralegal Register in 2014. Her early career was in teaching and lecturing in Law, where she held a variety of posts including delivery on the LL.B. and other post-graduate courses. As a legal editor for five years at ILEX, she enhanced her skills for developing legal qualifications for the Paralegal sector.  From 2007 to 2009 she utilised her commercial law expertise as a commercial lawyer for GlaxoSmithKline.  Her role as a Director of the PPR encompasses the strategic development of a voluntary registered scheme for Paralegals who work in the unregulated market. Rita took up the post of Managing Director of the PPR in November 2015 and works on a pro-bono basis.

Register Regulatory Committee

The focus of the Register Regulatory Committee (RRC) is to ensure that the Register operates within good practice principles, ensuring a robust framework of proportionate regulation to maintain the high standards that Paralegals must abide by.

The RRC hears complaints through the Complaints Committee and/or Adjudication and Appeals Panel.

Amanda Lee – Chair

Amanda Lee is an arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is the Founder of the ‘Careers in Arbitration’ initiative and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Law, where she teaches Mediation and ADR. She regularly speaks and publishes on issues relating to dispute resolution.Amanda is a Director of ArbitralWomen and a member of the Global Advisory Board of ICDR Y&I. She serves as an Ambassador for R.E.A.L. – Racial Equality for Arbitration Lawyers, and The Alliance for Equality in Dispute Resolution. She is a member of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association’s International Arbitration Committee. Amanda became the first female Chair of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Young Members’ Group in 2017 and in that capacity served as a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators’ Board of Management from 2017 to 2018. She is a member of a number of other professional organizations and has served on and chaired a number of further committees during her career to date. Amanda mentors young and aspiring practitioners both informally and via schemes offered by a number of leading universities, in addition to serving as a Professional Ambassador for Aspiring Solicitors. This gives her an insight into many of the challenges facing legal professionals of all levels.

Karl Thompson

Karl has a multi-disciplinary background as a qualified legal practitioner lawyer, civil and commercial mediator (with multiple national and international accreditations and panel memberships), chartered manager, chartered IT professional /information scientist, IT/Legal academic and visiting lecturer in further education.His experience in the legal sector spans over 37 years.

His roles include that of Head of legal, legal manager, legal practitioner specialising in Civil and housing litigation, landlord & tenant, Equalities legislation, local government in house legal practice and as a director of information technology and law running his own consultancy. He served as Chair and Director of a sizeable board publicly funded, in a borough wide Equalities council. Now chair emeritus he also offers advice to various boards and is a member of the Association of Chairs.

He is a member of the Civil Mediation Council, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a CIARB approved trainer; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executive & Commissioner for Oaths, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Leadership & Management & City & Guilds Institute; Member of the Chartered Institute of IT-BCS, an accredited counter fraud specialist, a data protection practitioner accredited by the Law Society & ICO via PDP. He was also joint first to receive the IOP’s Qualified Paralegal status as a Fellow of the IOP, and a member of the New York Paralegal Assn. He is a member of INADR the International Academy of Dispute Resolution (Chicago, Illinois).

Stephen Rippingale-Peters

Stephen is a Fellow of the Institute of Paralegals and is Registered in Tier 4 on the Professional Paralegal Register. Stephen has worked closely with Solicitors, Barristers and Insolvency Practitioners over the past 28 years and has been running his own businesses specialising in complex investigation on a variety of subject matters both in the UK and overseas. He was the first investigator in a scheme to assist victims of fraud, being piloted by the Home Office and Police, and was engaged over an extended period in the identification of personal assets of a Director following the collapse of a major listed company. Stephen has worked with major household names and has been recommended by word of mouth as far afield as New York, Cape Town, Sydney, and Nantucket, and has built a reputation as a fair minded professional with a pragmatic approach to challenges. Most recently Stephen was responsible for compliance planning and strategy in his role as COFA at a Law Firm.