Current Michael Napier Appointments
Officer, International Bar Association Committee on Alternative and New Law Business Structures
Chairman Emeritus Harbour Litigation Funding Ltd.
University of Manchester Outstanding Alumnus Award 2013
Legal Business Lawyer of the Year Award 2012
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Queen’s Counsel (Honoris Causa)
Honorary Bencher Gray’s Inn
Doctor of Laws (LLD) Sheffield and Nottingham Trent Universities
and the University of Law
Visiting Professor Nottingham Trent University
Fellow Royal Society of Arts
Fellow Institute of Continuing Professional Development
Freeman City of London Law Society
Freeman Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire
Member, The Athenaeum
Former
Attorney General’s pro bono envoy 2001 – 2015
Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Thalidomide Trust 2001 – 2014
Trustee National Pro Bono Centre
Director probonouk.net Ltd
Chairman Irwin Mitchell Holdings Ltd
Senior Partner Irwin Mitchell LLP Solicitors
President Law Society of England and Wales
Member Legal Services Board
President Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Member Civil Justice Council (Joint chair advisory group on courts and tribunals)
Chairman Civil Justice Council Working Party on third party funding code of conduct
Chairman Civil Justice Council Working Party on Damages Based Agreements (contingency fees)
Member of the Risk and Ethics Advisory Committee to the Board of the Uppsala Monitoring Centre,Sweden. (World Health Organisation Global Pharmaceutical Monitoring Programme)
Member Department of Work & Pensions working group on management and leadership
Trustee, Galleries of Justice (National Centre of Citizenship and the Law)
Chairman, Centre of Advanced Litigation, Nottingham Trent University
Council Member ‘Justice’
Chairman, Hospital Advisory Committee, Rampton Special Hospital
Member Mental Health Act Commission (Regional Chairman 1983-92)
President South Yorkshire Medico-Legal Society
Trustee, Pitsmoor Citizens Advice Bureau