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Civil Service Commissioners

Libby Watkins DL

Libby is currently Deputy President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.

She practised at the Bar in London before serving as Senior Crown Counsel and later Registrar of the Supreme Court in Bermuda. Accompanying her diplomat husband, she lived in Pakistan, Canada and Swaziland where she became involved with various NGOs and charities. A former member of the National Lottery Charities Board, later Community Fund, Libby chaired the Wales Committee.

She is a trustee of Barnardo’s and a member of the Lord Chancellor‘s Advisory Committee on the Appointment of JPs in Gwent. She is a Fellow of Gray’s Inn. A Welsh speaker, she is a Deputy Lieutenant of Gwent.