Dr. Michael Stockdale
Dr Michael Stockdale is Director of the Centre for Criminal and Civil Evidence and Procedure and Director of Staff and Building Development in the School of Law at Northumbria University, where he has lectured since 1983. He has taught evidence since 1986 and written numerous books, articles and other publications in the fields of criminal and civil evidence. He currently teaches criminal and civil evidence on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including the LL.B (Hons) Full Time, Part Time and Open Learning programmes, the LLB (Hons) Exempting Degree, the BSC in Forensic Science and the LL.M's in Medical Law and Child Care. He is frequently consulted on evidential issues both by practising barristers and by supervisors/firms within the Law School's Student Law Office (which deals with a live client caseload).
Jonathan Bainbridge
Jonathan Bainbridge is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law
at Northumbria University and the programme Director of the LL.B (Honours)
degree (Full Time). He is a solicitor (now non-practicing) and teaches
Business Law and Practice and Sales, Acquisitions and Corporate Finance
on the Legal Practice Course and the LL.B Honours (Exempting) degree.
He has taught both criminal and civil evidence to undergraduates. He
is interested in the implications for professionals of money laundering
regime under both the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, as amended by the
Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, the Money Laundering Regulations
2003 and the consultation about the new Money Laundering Regulations
2007 implementing the 3rd Money Laundering Directive.
John Bates
John Bates is a practising solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law at Northumbria University. He currently teaches Tort, Litigation and Evidence on the LL.B (Hons) Exempting degree programme and Tort on the LL.B (Hons) and GDL/CPE programmes. He also teaches the Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Litigation option on the Bar Vocational Course. Before joining the School of Law, John spent several years in private practice and was a director/partner in a leading Peterborough law firm, where his practice focussed on personal injury and employment litigation. He is a supervisor in the Student Law Office at Northumbria.
Joanne Clough
Joanne Clough is a practising solicitor and full time lecturer in the
School of Law at Northumbria University. Before joining the School of
Law, Joanne worked as a full time specialist in criminal defence work
for a number of firms both in Bristol and later, in Co Durham. Joanne
is a fully accredited member of both the Police Station and the Court
Duty Solicitor schemes. She teaches crime, criminal litigation and criminal
evidence on the LLB full time undergraduate programme and also teaches
criminal law on the LLB part time and open learning undergraduate degrees.
She is a Supervisor in the Student Law Office at Northumbria.
Alan Davenport
Alan Davenport is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Deputy Programme Leader
for the full-time GDL course. He is an academic lawyer,
having obtained an M.Phil by research from the University
of Wales, Aberystwyth. He
teaches Civil Liberties to undergraduate students and
Public Law to students across the whole portfolio of
courses within the School of
Law. His main interests are in the laws relating to public
order and police powers and he has a particular interest
in the effect of the
Human Rights Act 1998 on criminal procedure and rules of
evidence.
Lisa Down
Lisa Down is Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law at Northumbria
University, where she has taught since 2002. She teaches Evidence, Opinion
Writing, Conferencing and the Personal Injury / Clinical Negligence
option on the Bar Vocational Course. For her LLM, Lisa completed research
into the new bad character provisions and the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
She also regularly updates the Cavendish Law Cards on Evidence. Lisa
is actively involved in the Student Law Office at Northumbria where
she offers assistance in the consideration of evidential matters. Lisa
is Deputy Programme Course Leader of the Bar Vocational Course and Programme
Leader of the part-time Bar Vocational Course.
Andrew Evans
Andrew Evans is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Northumbria University.
He teaches Property Law to full-time and part-time students
on the LLB degree and the CPE course. His core professional
interest is Criminal
law, and he is currently working towards an LLM thesis
on the treatment of illegally obtained evidence in criminal
trials. He is a trainee barrister,
and will begin a pupillage focussed on Crime work with
18 St John Street Chambers in Manchester in September
2007.
Ross Fletcher
Ross Fletcher is a Senior Lecturer in Law
at the School of Law at Northumbria University, where he
has lectured since
2002. He currently
teaches civil procedure on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate
programmes including the LL.B (Hons) Bar Exempting
Programme and the
Bar Vocational Course, as well as Company Law on the LLM
Commercial Law Full Time and Distance Learning
Programmes. He is
also Programme Leader on the LLM Commercial Law Distance
Learning Programme and is in charge of the Law
School ’s successful Mooting programme.
Judith Gowland
Judith Gowland is a full-time senior lecturer in the School of Law at Northumbria University. Before joining the School of Law, Judith worked as a full-time specialist in criminal defence work for a number of firms in the North East and became a fully accredited member of both the Police Station and the Court Duty Solicitor schemes. Judith currently teaches criminal litigation on the LPC and Foundations on the LLB full-time undergraduate programme. Judith is Programme Leader on the GDL full-time programme. Additionally, Judith supervises students working in a criminal firm in the Student Law Office at Northumbria.
Russell Hewitson
Russell Hewitson is a solicitor and property
law consultant with Blackett Hart & Pratt LLP. He is also a magistrate.
After several years as a solicitor with a leading Newcastle
commercial law firm, he joined the Law School in 1992 and is
now a principal lecturer. Russell is subject leader for Property
Law and Practice on the postgraduate professional Legal Practice
Course, in addition to being the module tutor for the Termination
and Renewal of Business Tenancies module on the LLM Advanced
Commercial Property course. Research interests include evidential
property issues, conveyancing, landlord and tenant law and
licensing law. Russell is also responsible for the development
of the School's international activities. He is editor of Sweet & Maxwell's
Precedents for the Conveyancer, and author of numerous articles
and books on property issues including Business Tenancies (Cavendish
Publishing Ltd), The Conveyancers' Yearbook (Shaw & Sons),
Property Law and
Practice (Northumbria Law Press) and Conveyancing Searches
and Enquiries (Jordans).
John Horne
John Horne is a solicitor (non-practising). After several
years as a partner in a leading Newcastle 'legal aid' firm,
he joined the Law School in 1998 as a senior lecturer. His
primary area of interest is mental health law. He is a member
of the team which teaches the well-respected distance learning
LL.M.s in (a) mental health law and (b) mental health law,
policy and practice. He edits the Journal of Mental Health
Law (published by Northumbria Law Press, the publishing 'wing'
of the Law School). John is a part-time legal member of the
Mental Health Review Tribunal service and a former Mental Heath
Act Commissioner.
Adam Jackson
Adam Jackson is a barrister (non-practising) and a full time
lecturer at Northumbria University. He currently teaches criminal
law, criminal litigation and evidence on the LLB full time
undergraduate programme as well as teaching evidence on a number
of other programmes including the LLB part time and open learning
undergraduate degrees and as part of a stand alone evidence
module to forensic scientists and criminologists. In addition
Adam is currently researching an MPhil into the proposed criminalisation
of European environmental protection.
Kevin Kerrigan
Kevin Kerrigan is an Associate Dean in the School of Law at Northumbria University, where he is in charge of the School’s undergraduate programmes. He is also a practising solicitor and Human Rights Act consultant with experience of conducting criminal and human rights cases in courts at all levels. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of criminal litigation, human rights and legal education. In particular, he has an active interest in clinical legal education and runs a criminal appeal clinic at Northumbria University’s Student Law Office. He has written numerous articles and text books and delivered papers at academic conferences and training courses for professionals, including, police, lawyers, social workers, mental health professionals and court clerks.
Rebecca Mitchell
Rebecca Mitchell is a principal lecturer
in the School of Law. Rebecca teaches Business Law and
Practice and Commercial
Law on the postgraduate
professional Legal Practice Course, and also teaches Commercial
Law at undergraduate level,
in addition to being
one of the module tutors for the LLM Commercial Contracts
module. Rebecca has a commercial background
in practice and specialised
in corporate tax with a firm of City solicitors. Research
interests include evidential
corporate issues
and insolvency. Rebecca is also responsible for the development
of solicitors' training at postgraduate
level within the School
of Law.
Andrea O’Cain
Andrea O’Cain is Associate Dean for Professional Programmes in
the School of Law, in which she has worked for 16 years. Andrea specialises
in Criminal Procedure and Education Law, and has taught on a wide range
of programmes, including the Legal Practice Course, the Bar Vocational
Course and the Exempting Degree programmes. Before coming to Northumbria,
Andrea was a partner in private practice specialising in criminal defence
work. She currently has close links with the Crown Prosecution Service.
Professor Philip Plowden
Professor Philip Plowden is Dean of Northumbria University’s School of Law. He is dual qualified as a solicitor and a barrister, and currently practises at the Bar, specialising in public law and human rights. He is the author of Criminal Litigation In Practice (Northumbria Law Press) and numerous other publications on criminal litigation and evidence, human rights, and legal education. He is the academic member of the Law Society's Criminal Law Committee, and is actively involved in criminal practice, running miscarriage of justice appeals out of the Law School's Student Law Office.
Dr. Eimear Spain
Dr. Eimear Spain is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Northumbria University. She was awarded a PhD in Criminal Law and Psychology in 2008. Eimear joined the Law School from Macquarie University, Sydney and has also previously taught at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include criminal law, law and psychology, law and emotions and constitutional law. She has in the past conducted extensive research in constitutional and criminal law, particularly criminal defences, resulting in the publication of a number of articles and book chapters. She also works as an academic consultant in the Student Law Office in Northumbria University.
Zena Smith
Zena Smith is a senior lecturer in law at the School of Law at Northumbria University where she has been lecturing since 2005. Prior to joining the School of Law Zena worked for a number of years in practice as a solicitor specialising in both family law and criminal litigation. She became accredited on both the police station and court duty solicitor schemes. She now teaches family law on the undergraduate programme and criminal litigation on both the undergraduate programme and the LPC. She is module leader for the LPC criminal litigation programme.
Natalie Wortley
Natalie Wortley is a barrister and a member of New Court Chambers in
Newcastle. She joined the School of Law as a senior lecturer in 2005 and
teaches evidence, criminal procedure and advocacy. She continues to practise
at the Bar, specialising in criminal law and prison law. Natalie is a
member of the Bar Council’s Law Review Committee (Criminal Law).
She is a former Inns of Court Pegasus Scholar with a particular interest
in death penalty cases. She is actively involved in pro bono work and
is a consultant for the Student Law Office and a trustee of the Rift Valley
Newcastle Justice Project.