Ann Page, head of legal services at the Co-operative Bank, has been named as the new group chair of the Law Society Commerce and Industry Group (C&I Group), the main industry body for in-house lawyers.

Page will take over the role from outgoing chair Alvin Shuttleworth, company secretary and group legal director with British Nuclear Fuels, at the group’s annual dinner on 21 March. She will chair the executive for a 12-month period of office.