Kevin was appointed in 2008 and is responsible for directing the activities of the Ombudsman. He read law at university for 3 years and graduated with honours, prior to studying to be a Barrister in London at the Inns of Court School of Law. He was called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, after successfully passing his Bar exams and is also professionally qualified by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). Having initially served for a period of four years between 2015- 2019, in 2021 Kevin was re-elected to the Board of Directors of the Ombudsman Association, a body that advises government and helps to oversee the ombudsman and complaint handling landscape in the UK, Ireland, British Overseas Territories and British Crown Dependencies. In November 2018, Kevin was invited to join the Board of Trustees at Citizens Advice Stevenage.
Kevin has a dual-mandate serving also (from the 1st January 2022) as the Chief Ombudsman at the Independent Football Ombudsman (“IFO”), a scheme that was established by the football authorities (The Football Association, The Premier League, and The Football League) to receive and adjudicate on complaints which have not been resolved at an earlier stage. Prior to this appointment, Kevin sat on the IFO’s Advisory Board between 2015 and 2021 where he advised his predecessor on football-related casework and dispute resolution procedures.
Kevin has a keen interest in consumer affairs and has appeared several times on television, radio and in the press to provide expert opinion on a range of issues that affect consumers. He has a specialist understanding of consumer law and has written and presented a series of accredited courses and seminars in this field.
Kevin was previously employed for 2 years as in-house legal counsel at a global certification and testing business and in 2005 he was part of the team of advisers that set up the University of Hertfordshire Law Clinic, a pro-bono legal advice centre that served the local community. Kevin’s previous non-legal and ADR career includes positions in the retail, financial and online gaming industries.
Kevin and his colleague, Deputy Chief Ombudsman Judith Turner, are the co-authors of Volume 28 of Atkin's Court Forms and Precedents on Ombudsman schemes in England and Wales. Published by LexisNexis in 2020, it forms part of the UK’s only encyclopaedia of civil litigation forms, precedents and procedure and is a leading authority on the process that should be followed by complainants.
