The Board

Yvonne Brown is the Principal of Yvonne Brown and Co. Solicitors, which was established in Hackney in October 1994. Having qualified in 1985, she worked for 4.5 years as an Assistant Solicitor with Dowse and Co. In 1989 she joined the West End firm of Claude Hornby and Cox, where she was made a partner and remained there for some 2.5 years following which she established her own firm. Yvonne is a founding member of the Black Solicitors Network and is currently the Chair of the Group.

Yvonne is a member of The Law Society's Children Panel and a substantial proportion of the work undertaken by her at her firm is in relation to public law care proceedings. The firm holds Legal Aid Franchises in the areas of family and education. The firm was the first in Hackney to gain a Legal Aid franchise in the area of education law. Yvonne is committed to the education work undertaken by the firm as she considers that unless black children are afforded a proper opportunity of securing a good education, then the whole black community will suffer in the longer term.

Yvonne has participated in several community and professional groups throughout her professional practice. She is a member of the Association of Lawyers for Children, the Solicitors Family Law Association and the Education Law Practitioners Group. For four years she was the vice-chair of the Inner and North London Panel of Guardian ad Litem which had responsibility for practice standards.

In 2002 she was invited to contribute to the Life with Britain Series by delivering a lecture to the George Padmore Institute in Islington. Yvonne was a member of the Black Music Industry Association where she was the Secretary. She was a Trustee of the Avenues Youth Project in West London and a number of mental health groups within East London.