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Hello Members, how time has flown by with our 50th Anniversary Year. Here is your 5th Newsletter to bring you up to date with all the events which we have been involved in during this year. To also let you know what else we will be doing up to our AGM in February 2014. Since our last newsletter we have all been busy adjusting to new challenges. There are many new ones to face with our evolution into Charter status ongoing by CILEX working towards independence and new concepts of service delivery and regulation of Members. I hope you enjoy this new style newsletter and find the articles and news of interest. Please do provide your news stories too for future editions. Please read on ................... It’s been a busy few months for the Branch! SEPTEMBER 2013 NO. 5 PATRICIA WHITE - CHAIR JO BROADHEAD - VICE CHAIR DONATA CROSSFIELD - TREASURER & SECRETARY YORK AND NORTH YORKSHIRE BRANCH
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Hello Members, how time has
flown by with our 50th
Anniversary Year. Here is your
5th Newsletter to bring you up
to date with all the events
which we have been involved in
during this year. To also let you
know what else we will be
doing up to our AGM in
February 2014.
Since our last newsletter we
have all been busy adjusting to
new challenges. There are many
new ones to face with our
evolution into Charter status
ongoing by CILEX working
towards independence and new
concepts of service delivery
and regulation of Members.
I hope you enjoy this new style
newsletter and find the articles
and news of interest. Please do
provide your news stories too
for future editions.
Please read on ...................
It’s been a busy few months for the Branch!
SEPTEMBER 2013
NO. 5
PATRICIA WHITE - CHAIR JO BROADHEAD - VICE CHAIR DONATA CROSSFIELD - TREASURER & SECRETARY
YORK AND
NORTH YORKSHIRE BRANCH
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Jo Broadhead, is a matrimonial lawyer at Raworths LLP in Harrogate, a role that she has held for 13 years whilst studying for and completing her CILEX education to become a Fellow in 2009. Jo was also awarded the CILEX Presidents Medal in 2010 and she is our branch Vice Chairperson for 2013/2014.
Presidents medal award ceremony April 2010
As well as always wanting to be a lawyer, Jo has always had a passion for motorsports and has travelled all over the world with her partner to support his off road racing career. Jo enjoyed attending many events but never had the time or bravery to become any more involved than her ‘race support’ duties of refuelling both man and bike, pit board work and a change of goggles when required!
However there were many changes which occurred in Jo’s life just as she qualified as a fellow, not least she found that she had a whole host of free time on her hands from the gap left by no longer requiring study time, a serious health scare and she had the need for a new challenge and goal now that she had reached her previous one to become a Lawyer.
She decided ‘if you can’t beat them join them’ and she bought her first motorbike much to the astonishment and admiration of her partner. After a couple of weeks of customising the bike to her signature colour she couldn’t wait to get going. She says that she had watched so many races she thought that it looked ‘pretty easy’ but nothing had prepared her for the test of balance, skill and stamina. With a wobbly start including some quite impressive fall offs she slowly mastered the technique required. From the very first day on the bike she was bitten by the racing bug and most weekends she will now be found at the track.
She finds racing an escape from the 9 to 5 nature of being a lawyer and she says that dealing with an emotional aspect of the Law such a family work, it helps to keep everything in perspective and enables her to leave the emotion of some cases at the office on an evening.
Jo says that she has approached her riding career in the same way she did her studies, she says that you get out what you put in and this has taken her racing career all around the UK and as far afield as Austria when she rode for GBR.
Jo says ‘riding is an adventure you really never know how the day will turn out, what challenges it will throw at you and the adrenaline rush racing gives is addictive.’ She adds ‘this is much like a day in the office as you never know who will come in, with what problems and adrenaline rush of advocacy in court is also, oddly addictive!’
Clients who have read my profile are often fascinated by my riding and find it hard to believe that the suited person sat before them will be up to her knees in mud at the weekend but this often leads to clients feeling more comfortable and in turn being able to open up to me. Equally many riding colleagues often have an image of a Lawyer, which at the track I couldn’t be further from. This in turn has led to considerable new work referrals as people get to know you as a person and not the suited lawyer!
Jo philosophy on life is best summed up in by her nieces’ favourite phrase, YOLO (you only live once) Jo lives life to the maximum and relishes the challenges that it throws at her. She says that sometimes in life you end up in a muddy heap wondering how you got there but the quicker you get up the better. In the words of one of Jo’s riding inspirations ‘the quicker you get the bike back rubber side down the less fuel you will lose!’
Jo and her bike in Austria
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE - Jo Broadhead
BRANCH EVENTS DURING 201325th February 2013 - AGM held at York Barbican - For the first time the Branch held an evening of Networking and CPD for Members and opened up the invitation to Non-Branch Members and the Public. We were joined by Diane Burleigh OBE our Chief Executive , Nick Hanning our President and Chris Hoskins Regional Liaison Officer. 1hour CPD was available and I hope everyone has remembered to include this in this years CPD which ends 30 September 2013.
11th April 2013 - The Branch arranged another event open to the public which took place at York Barbican Centre - we were joined by 21 local businesses who helped to raise funds for Yorkshire Air Ambulance, our chosen charity for 2013.
29th June 2013 - Our 50th Celebration took place at Ramada Jarvis Mercure Hotel in York, it was a most enjoyable evening with dancing, dinner, casino. Our Guest Speaker was Lord Crathorne KCVO who shared with us his many experiences of working closely with the Queen and Royal Family. Our Branch raised a total of £761.60 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS& REMINDERS
SEPTEMBER 2013 CPD REGISTRATION DEADLINE 30TH
OCTOBER 2013
ANNUAL LEGAL SERVICE - YORK MINSTER 13TH - TICKET ENTRIES ONLY NUMBERS BY MONDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER 2013
NOVEMBER 2013
CPD EVENT W/C 18TH TO BE HELD IN YORK, SCARBOROUGH, HARROGATE & NORTHALLERTON - TIMES & VENUES TBC WITH ATTENDEES
WORK BASED LEARNING; CPD & FELLOWSHIP CRITERIA
NOT TO BE MISSED GUIDANCE ON THE NEW RULES PROVIDING CLARITY ON WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR CPD FROM 1ST OCTOBER 2013
FEBRUARY 2014AGM WEDNESDAY 26TH FEBRUARY 2014 - TIME & VENUE TBC
