David Norgrove gained a reputation as a tough character after facing down a takeover bid by Sir Philip Green while trustee of the pension fund at Marks & Spencer.
But over the past year the former private secretary to Margaret Thatcher and chair of the Pensions Regulator has been tasked with arguably his biggest challenge yet - reforming the sprawling family justice system so it better supports the children and parents it serves.
Norgrove was appointed at the helm of the Family Justice Review panel nearly 12 months ago, prior to the general election, and was kept on in the role by the coalition. While the government has changed, the scale of the task remains huge - there were 25,810 children involved in public law care applications in 2009 compared with 19,760 in 2008 according to Ministry of Justice (MoJ) statistics.
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