James Bogle TD VR, a former army officer, is a barrister, in private practice in the Inner Temple, called to the Bar in 1991, specialising in banking and commercial, regulatory and Court of Protection law. He has also appeared in environmental law cases, numerous high-profile public law and end-of-life cases and freedom of speech and religion cases. He is an experienced advocate appearing before the English courts at all levels and is a member of the Bar of Dubai and the British Virgin Islands. He was Deputy Head of Chambers (and later effective Head) from 2002 to 2014.

Born, and partly educated, in Australia, he was a Commonwealth University Scholar at the ANU and Melbourne University, later gaining an MA in philosophy and law at Surrey University. He is a Catholic convert from the Anglicanism of his family.

He was commissioned at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in 1981, into the Queen’s Own Hussars, serving as a regular officer for 5 years and later as a reservist for 25 years. Having worked for numerous MPs and peers, he has considerable experience in public affairs. He has undertaken media, debating and speaking engagements both nationally and internationally and has been involved in campaigns addressing religious persecution and human rights violations. He was recently a delegate of the British Burma Campaign Society’s goodwill and reconciliation visit to Japan.

He was a visiting lecturer in law and medical ethics at St George’s Hospital Medical School, is a visiting lecturer and mentor at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and has advised on proposed education legislation. He is a trustee of the realty trust of Farnborough Abbey, EWTN (UK) and the Catholic Union Charitable Trust (of which he was chair). He was Chairman (later Vice-Chairman) of the Catholic Union of Great Britain for some 20 years. As a former Colonel Commandant of Army Cadets, he has extensive experience in children and safeguarding issues.

His publications include A Heart for Europe, 1990 (biography of Karl I of Austria), Law and Medical Ethics, 2005, Colloquium on Freedom of Conscience, 2015, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion, 2019, In Defence of Monarchy, 2023, and he writes for various media outlets and academic journals. He is a Knight of Malta, a Freeman of the City of London, holds the Territorial Decoration (TD) and Volunteer Reserves Service Medal (VR) and is a member of the Company of Scriveners, London, and the Merchants’ House, Glasgow (founded by his ancestor in 1605). He is married to writer, speaker and journalist, Joanna Bogle.

Paul Diamond was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1985; and specialises in the law of religious liberty, freedom of speech and European law. He studied for his LLM at Magdalene College, Cambridge; and he won a scholarship to study international law at the Hague Academy of International Law, The Netherlands.

He is one of the leading barristers in the law of religious liberty; and he has appeared at every level in the national courts (including the House of Lords) as well as the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg and the Court of Justice of the European Union, Luxembourg. He was barrister to the Keep Sunday Special Campaign and to the Christian Legal Centre. Paul has argued many ground-breaking cases; on religious rights, freedom of speech and civil liberties.  He handles some of the most controversial cases in the national courts; from freedom of religion, free speech to complex matters of abortion and gendercide.

Recently, he won the important free speech case of Felix Ngole and appeared in the Birmingham School case where children as young as 4 were educated about LGBT issues. He has worked on cases at the highest levels; including with the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, religious leaders, political leaders and the famous Soviet dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky. He has brought important cases to the European Court of Human Rights on religious liberty; and was involved in the famous Eweida & Others v United Kingdom (the British Airways Cross case) to the recent tragic case of Alfie Evans (Alfie was denied medical treatment in Rome after the Pope intervened in the case; and Alfie subsequently died) to the important European Citizens Initiative case before the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Paul is an eloquent speaker and political strategist; who is able to combine his legal, media and political skills into his professional work.

Robert Harris is Strategy Director of Voice for Justice UK. He is the author of an acclaimed book on the subject of marriage, and has contributed to several books and reports on a number of topics. He has been interviewed on television and radio and has spoken at numerous events. He currently serves as a member of the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group and was previously its Joint Convenor (2014-2019). He is a member of the Board of Reference of Immanuel Online School.

In 2015, he organized a conference on the theme of Magna Carta in the year of its 800th anniversary. Following this event, VfJUK in collaboration with Wilberforce Publications published a book, Magna Carta Unravelled: The Case for Christian Freedoms Today, to which he contributed a chapter focused on high-profile legal cases involving religious conscience in the workplace. More recently, he chaired the planning group that set up CIDAC.

Robert is a philosophy graduate of University College London, and also has a diploma in law from the University of Law.  He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His photographic work has been published by The Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, BBC and other leading news outlets, and also in the works of Nobel prizewinners.

Will Jones is the Editor of the Daily Sceptic, a widely-read UK-based news and comment website covering all aspects of the ‘culture wars’. He has a PhD in political philosophy, a degree in mathematics and a diploma in theology. A Christian and regular churchgoer who lives in Leamington Spa, he has been writing about the challenges currently facing Christians in the UK for the past decade.

Gabriel Olearnik helps businesses, governments and individuals all over the world solve the largest and most complex disputes. He does this by partnering with elite law firms, investigators and tech innovators.

Over the last few years, he has been involved in over 400 disputes with an aggregate value of $100 billion and have closed several innovative deals, with a particular emphasis on private equity investments and investment treaty arbitrations.

In the wider context, his cultural output has been extensively published in the United States, including in Dappled Things and the San Diego Reader. He has provided live commentary on British culture for a national TV audience on the occasions of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding and the death of Queen Elizabeth II, with peak audience viewing of over 2 million.

Gabriel is a former Secretary-General of the Polish City Club and the founder and CEO of Catholic Voices Poland. In 2016 he was made a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre.

Nina Power (BA (Hons), MA, PhD, LLB, FRSA) is Senior Editor of Compact Magazine, and the author of One-Dimensional Woman and What Do Men Want? as well as of many articles for newspapers and magazines including The Telegraph and The Sunday Times. She taught Philosophy at the University of Roehampton for thirteen years, and regularly teaches Adult Education at the Mary Ward Centre, London. She has a long-standing commitment to freedom of expression, having co-founded Defend the Right to Protest in 2011. She is increasingly concerned with protecting the right to hold philosophical and religious beliefs without persecution and is keen to protect those who suffer social and economic punishment as a consequence of their beliefs.

Lynda Rose is an Anglican priest and writer.  Called to the Bar in 1983, she subsequently went into ministry and became one of the first women to be ordained in the Anglican Church.  Currently she is CEO of Voice for Justice UK, the campaigning group founded to defend the disadvantaged and marginalised, and to defend Christian freedoms in an increasingly secular world.  She also serves as Convenor of the Lords and Commons Family and Child Protection Group, an independent all-party Parliamentary research group.  

She is author of several books for both the religious and general markets, and regularly writes for Christian Today, and the Christian media.

Ian Shelley is a Director of Voice for Justice UK. He qualified  as a Chartered Accountant  and  then worked in investment banking for fifteen years,  first in analysis and corporate finance at Cazenove & Co in the City of London,  and later based overseas in Asian emerging markets. Since he returned to the UK he has been self-employed as a landlord and property developer.

Ian  studied  Economics,   Sociology    and  Theology  at  York  and    Oxford Universities. He is married  with two  school-age children  and lives in Oxford and London. He has been a Christian  for forty years,  has been a short-term missionary in the Indian subcontinent and is now actively involved in his local Anglican parish. His main interests are family life, travel and country living.

Formerly Executive Officer of campaigning organisation Right To Life and then a freelance Project Consultant, Peter brings over a decade of experience and leadership in the charity sector, as well as critical skills in organisation, research, campaigning and communications. He has worked closely with leading figures in the fields of human rights and ethics. Alongside his non-profit work, Peter has deep practical experience of engagement, volunteer mobilisation and supporter outreach through his commercial consulting practice. Peter was Communications Manager for the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford for several years, working to ensure that the Anscombe Centre’s external messaging through media and other social engagement aligned with its mission to inform Catholics and the wider public on bioethics, as well as conduct research and give occasional talks on bioethical matters.

From 2021-23, he was Deputy Chairman (Political and Campaigning) for the Watford Conservative Association, as part of his project consultancy as Election Agent for the WCA, a position within the leadership team of the WCA which involves being responsible for ensuring that literature is legally compliant, that Candidates for all Elections are nominated successfully, and that the expenses for all Elections are kept within legal limits and submitted to local authorities within the required timeframe after Election results have been declared.

For 10 years, Peter was Executive Officer at Right to Life UK on issues relating to disability equality, pre- and post-natal care (esp. for families of children with disabilities, such as Down’s syndrome), suicide prevention, palliative medicine, and informed medical consent. This included organisational and media representation, Parliamentary and public strategy, as well as responsibility for RTL’s online and research endeavours, writing submission papers to inquiries and consultations including for overseas Parliamentary Committees and the United Nations. He also took part in public debates, engaged in media appearances, wrote articles, and gave talks on university campuses.