Jayne Willetts

Solicitor Advocate

Jayne is the founder of specialist regulation practice Jayne Willetts & Co which provides advice and representation to the legal services market on all aspects of regulation and professional discipline.

Described in Chambers & Partners Directory as “knowledgeable, reassuring, decisive and a fantastic advocate” Jayne continues to be ranked in Band 1 nationally for her professional discipline work.

As well as advising on compliance and disciplinary issues, she appears as an advocate before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and in appeals to the Administrative Court. She is Chair of the Birmingham Law Society Professional Regulation Committee and a member of the Law Society Regulatory Processes Committee as well as being a contributing editor to Cordery on Legal Services. She is also Legal Adviser to the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists.

Her qualification as a solicitor advocate in 1994 was the first by a woman solicitor for civil cases. In 2000, she was elected President of Birmingham Law Society and was the first woman to be appointed to that office since the Society was incorporated in 1818. She was also the first female Chairman of the Law Society Young Solicitors’ Group in 1990.