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Full Title: Category: Honorary Bencher Bench Call Date: 24.10.2023 Bio: Professor Martin Chalkley is an economist who trained at Southampton and Warwick Universities obtaining a PhD in 1985. He specialises in the economics of incentives and payment systems and began working with the legal profession in 1996, assisting in the design and evaluation of graduated fees schemes. He has continued to advise the Bar Council, specialist Bar associations and the Ministry of Justice since then until the present. He was head of economics at the University of Dundee from 2004 until 2008 and was President of the Scottish Economic Society from 2005 to 2007. As an academic economist he has published widely on the issues surrounding how fee payment systems affect the effectiveness of public service delivery. He is currently a professor economics at the University of York. He is married to Heather and together they have a son and daughter. |