JAC's Jane Furniss - inconsistencies in her Register of Interest
Multiple identities are registered in Companies House.
15/6/23
By email: complaints@judicialappointments.gov.uk
Complaints Manager
Judicial Appointments Commission
5th Floor, Clive House
70 Petty France
London, SW1H 9EX
Inconsistencies in the Register of Interests of Jane Furniss.
Dear Complaints Manager,
Jane Furniss has registered her interests as • Trustee - Cumberland Lodge • Board Mentor - Critical Eye.
Her biography discloses “ Jane Furniss was appointed to the JAC as a lay member on 1 September 2017 and reappointed on 1 September 2020.
Jane is a Trustee of the leadership college, Cumberland Lodge, and provides mentoring support and advice to chairs and senior executives through Critical Eye. She was a non-executive director on the Board of the National Crime Agency until March 2019, and was Senior Independent Director of the Solicitors Regulation Authority until December 2017.
Until 2013 Jane was Chief Executive of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. She was Deputy Chair of the homelessness charity Crisis from 2005 to 2016. Earlier in her career she held senior roles in HM Inspectorate of Probation and the Probation Service and as a Director-General at the Home Office she led a strategic change programme to reform the way the criminal justice system works.” Jane Furniss CBE – Judicial Appointments Commission
Identities and appointments registered in Companies House
Jane FURNISS
Total number of appointments 1
Date of birth March 1954
CUMBERLAND LODGE (05383055)
Company status Active
Correspondence address
Cumberland Lodge, The Great Park, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 2HP
Role ACTIVE Director
Appointed on 25 February 2016
Mary Jane FURNISS
Total number of appointments 4
Date of birth March 1954
TECHSTRAT LIMITED (02955619)
Company status Dissolved
Correspondence address
Nethersyde House, The Hame Stainland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX4 9HT
Role Secretary
Appointed on 4 October 1994
CRISIS UK (04024938)
Company status Active
Correspondence address
Nethersyde House, The Hame Stainland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX4 9HT
Role RESIGNED Director
Appointed on 8 February 2006
Resigned on 3 March 2016
Occupation Non-Executive
JSSC (04826715)
Company status Dissolved
Correspondence address
Nethersyde House, The Hame Stainland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX4 9HT
Role RESIGNED Director
Appointed on 1 September 2003
Resigned on 22 February 2006
Occupation Civil Servant
1 person with significant control / 0 statements
The Workforce Development Trust Limited
Correspondence address 1 Temple Way, Bristol, England, BS2 0BY
FAIRWEATHER PROJECT (BRADFORD) LIMITED(THE) (01704344)
Company status Active
Correspondence address
Nethersyde House, The Hame Stainland, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX4 9HT
Role RESIGNED Director
Appointed before 13 June 1991
Resigned on 22 June 1992
Occupation Probation Officer*
Mary Jane FURNISS
Total number of appointments 1
Date of birth March 1954
IMPERIAL COURT (KENNINGTON LANE) MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED (03540536)
Company status Active
Correspondence address
140 Tachbrook Street, London, England, SW1V 2NE
Role ACTIVE Director
Appointed on 20 July 2016
Identity 2 includes Jane Furniss's appointment to Crisis UK which is disclosed in her biography. This confirms that Mary Jane Furniss and Jane Furniss, born March 1954, are two identities of the same person and, on balance of probability identity 3 also belongs to Jane Furniss. If you find that this is the case, then she has failed to register Imperial Court (Kennington Lane) Management Company Limited. Please investigate her for misconduct for failing to register all of her interests and for holding multiple synthetic identities which enable her to conceal her interests from due diligence and audits.
Jane Furniss's appointment to Critical Eye could not be substantiated. Does she also use a different name? If she does, please disclose this to me so that I can complete my due diligence assessment.
I have highlighted The Workforce Development Trust Limited for further investigation and consideration of whether Jane Furniss in any way continues to operate and provide benefit to this company.
Yours sincerely,
Alison Wright.