The Lord Chancellor, having consulted the Master of the Rolls, has approved the reappointment of Elisabetta Sciallis as a lay advice and consumer affairs member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC).
The Lord Chancellor, having consulted the Master of the Rolls, has reappointed Elisabetta Sciallis as a member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee, for 3 years from 1 June 2026. She has been a member of the CPRC since 1 June 2023.
Ms Sciallis has been Principal Policy Advisor for Consumer Rights at Which? since 2022. She previously worked as a legal executive at the UK European Consumer Centre within the Chartered Trading Standards Institute. A qualified lawyer with more than 20 years' experience in commercial and consumer law, she has also lectured in consumer law at Brunel University.
CPRC is the statutory body that governs the practice and procedure to be followed in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal, the High Court, and the County Court.
Appointments and reappointments are made, by the Lord Chancellor, under the Civil Procedure Act 1997, and are regulated by the Commissioner for Public Appointments. This reappointment has been made in line with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.
