Complaints Committee

Lord Faulks

Chair of the Committee

Lord (Edward) Faulks has a long career as a barrister specialising in claims arising from the Human Rights Act, professional and clinical negligence, personal injury, education, police claims and public law. He became a KC in 1996. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2010 and served as Justice Minister from 2013-2016. He now sits as an unaffiliated peer.

Bulbul Basu

Bulbul Basu is a qualified accountant and has over 20 years' experience working within the financial services industry in London. During this time, she has worked in many different roles in different institutions and has an expert understanding of controls, corporate governance, and regulatory affairs within the financial services context.

Sarah Baxter

Sarah Baxter is a prominent journalist and editor, she is a past deputy editor of The Sunday Times, editor of The Sunday Times Magazine, Washington correspondent at The Sunday Times, and political editor of the New Statesman, among other roles. She is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stony Brook University, which is part of the State University of New York.

Manuela Grayson

Manuela Grayson is a solicitor and is a Legally Qualified Chair for a number of professional regulatory tribunals including the General Pharmaceutical Council and the Tax Disciplinary Board, and an Adjudication Chair of fitness to practise committees for Social Work England. Previously she had a career as a senior broadcast journalist for the BBC and was an editorial adviser to the BBC Trust.

Sarah Havlin

Sarah Havlin is a lawyer, regulator and arbitrator. She has worked in commercial legal practice and was commissioned in independent leadership, policy and judicial roles in Northern Ireland.

Lord Jones

Lord (Carwyn) Jones spent nine years as First Minister of Wales until December 2018. He was previously the chief legal advisor to the Welsh Government and held ministerial responsibilities for Open Government and Rural Affairs. He is a professor of Law at Aberystwyth University, chair of the environmental charity Size of Wales, and a non-executive director of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission.

Alastair Machray

Alastair Machray is the former Editor of The Liverpool Echo and Editor-in-Chief of Trinity Mirror Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. He spent 25 years as a daily newspaper editor, making him the longest-serving daily editor in the UK. He has worked in both national and regional newsrooms, winning numerous awards, including, in 2020, an MBE for services to local journalism. He lives on The Wirral and now runs a media consulting business.

George McInnes

George McInnes retired from Poole Hospital/University Hospitals Dorset in 2024, having been a consultant radiologist and Clinical Director of Radiology from 2014 to 2019. He qualified in Medicine at the University of Glasgow and worked as a radiologist in Scotland, Bermuda and Barcelona, where he was also the UK’s Medical Advisor for Telemedicine Clinic.

Asmita Naik

Asmita Naik is an independent consultant on international development and human rights following a career at the United Nations in Geneva in the 1990s. She serves as a magistrate and on various professional regulatory bodies. She co-authored a 2002 landmark report which put the issue of sexual exploitation by aid workers on the global agenda and has been involved in measures to strengthen oversight of the aid sector since then.

Allan Rennie

Vice Chair of the Committee

Allan Rennie is Honorary Professor of Communications, Media and Culture at the University of Stirling and a non-executive director of NHS Forth Valley. In a 30-year career in local and national newspapers, he edited the Clydebank Post, Daily Record, Sunday Mail, served as Editorial Development Director of Trinity Mirror Nationals and was managing director of Media Scotland. 

Harriet Wilson

Harriet Wilson was Managing Editor of Tatler, Conde Nast Director of Editorial Business and Rights as well as its code of conduct representative. She has also served on the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee.

Ted Young

Ted Young was editor of Metro. He started in journalism at the Harrow Observer and over his career has worked at the Northern Echo, Today, The Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, London Lite, Mail Online, and New York Daily News. He served for five years on the Editors’ Code of Practice Committee.