President Leeha James

Leeha embodies the qualities of a truly selfless leader. Between managing her own firm, publishing papers, delivering presentations, and being involved in other non-profit organisations, Leeha tirelessly gives up her time to lead the BCLS Team.

Leeha’s immense contribution to BCLS over the last three years has been central to all we have achieved. As a leader, she has helped take BCLS through a period of incredible growth and change.

Vice President Kate Fuller

Kate Fuller is a lawyer, a feminist and a hard core Fall Out Boy fan. She is a practising criminal lawyer, who also has extensive experience in domestic violence and child protection law. Some would consider that she has been appearing in the Cleveland and Wynnum Magistrates Court so long that her name should probably appear on the asset register.

In 2016, Kate became a founding partner of Fuller & White Solicitors where she remained until 2021. The highlight of her career has been instructing on murder trials and successfully running appeals. Kate is passionate about access to justice and court advocacy.

Kate has worked with the Bayside Community Legal Service since 2014 as both a volunteer and committee member. In 2020, she became Vice President and is thrilled to continue working with our employees, volunteers, and committee members.

Treasurer Paul Coves

Secretary Karen Hewitt

General Member Marshall Bostock

Besides being a volunteer lawyer at BCLS advising clients on criminal and family law matters, Marshall also sits on the management committee at BCLS and assists with the overall governance. Marshall considers himself very lucky and strives to give back to help those who have not been as fortunate as himself.

General Member David Boca

Meet David Boca. David operates a boutique accountancy and tax practice in Manly. David has also worked in privately-held and ASX listed enterprises in senior finance positions so his commercial understanding of how business operates from a financial perspective underpins his recommendations and advice on all matters of business and tax.

David started working with BCLS in December 2019 as the accountant and joined the management team in 2021. David decided to dedicate his time and volunteer his services as the accountant for BCLS and also joined the management committee as he values the work BCLS carries out in the general public. If he can make even a small difference to the local community by contributing to the work performed by the team at BCLS. His mission is to add value to the business and is driven by positive results and outcomes.

General Member Peter Goodwin

Peter has over 40 years experience first as a Solicitor ( 6 years) then as a Barrister particularly in the areas of Criminal Law, Personal Injuries ,Wills and Estates and in all general litigation. After 40 plus years in the legal profession Peter decided it was high time he started to put something back into the community and so volunteered with BCLS.