Notes on contributors

Lydia Bleasdale is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, University of Leeds, where she is also Director of Community Engagement.

Vivien Cochrane is a solicitor in the Criminal Litigation team at Kingsley Napley in London. She has over ten years’ experience of advising clients in cases covering the full spectrum of criminality and has been involved in some of the most high profile and novel criminal cases in recent history.

Rachel Dunn is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria Law School.

John Fitzpatrick is an emeritus professor of law in the University of Kent, and was Director of the Kent Law Clinic from 1992 to 2018. He previously worked as a caseworker and solicitor in community law centres in Brixton and Hammersmith.

Richard Grimes is a solicitor, a visiting professor at Charles University, Prague and an independent access to justice and legal education consultant. He was formerly Director of Clinical Programmes at the University of York.

Lee Hansen is a Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Essex Law Clinic at the University of Essex. Lee has a background in legal practice in Community Legal Centres in Australia.

Will Hayes is a barrister in the Criminal Litigation team at Kingsley Napley in London. He has extensive experience of representing clients in a vast range of complex and high profile criminal cases at all stages of proceedings, from interviews under caution at the commencement of police investigations right through to cases before the Court of Appeal.

Nick Johnson teaches law at De Montfort University and sits as a Tribunal Judge in the Social Entitlement Chamber. He qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and has taught law for more than 20 years. From 2006 to 2018, he led Nottingham Law School’s Legal Advice Centre.

Vinny Kennedy is a Solicitor and Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University Newcastle and a former Supervising Solicitor for the student Law Clinic at Sheffield Hallam University.

Jane Krishnadas is a Senior Lecturer in Law and the Conceptor and Convenor of the Community Legal Outreach Collaboration, Keele (CLOCK) at Keele University School of Law.

LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group) is a charity working in England and Wales to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal aid and cannot afford to pay and with the not-for-profit organisations that support them.

Tony Martin is a solicitor and Head of Clinics at BPP University Pro Bono Centre. He is also a freelance trainer and Chair of Hammersmith and Fulham Law Centre.

Hugh McFaul is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Open Justice Centre at The Open University.

Tribe Mkwebu is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria Law School, University of Northumbria. He is also a Clinic Supervisor within the University’s Student Law Office.

Donald Nicolson is Professor of Law and Director of the University of Essex Law Clinic and was founding Director of Law Clinics at the Universities of Strathclyde and Bristol. He is on the editorial board of Legal Ethics and the International Journal of the Legal Profession and a trustee of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation.

Julie Price is a Professor in Law in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University and heads the Cardiff Law School Pro Bono “Law in the Real World” schemes.

Frances Ridout is a Senior Lecturer and Supervising Barrister at Queen Mary University of London. She is the Director (Clinical Legal Education) of the Queen Mary Legal Advice Centre.

Beverley Rizzotto is a senior lecturer and manager of the Legal Advice Centre at the University of Wolverhampton. She is also a practising solicitor in the West Midlands region.

Victoria Roper is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a Trustee of the UK Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO), a Senior Fellow of the HEA and a member of national Education and Training Committee of the Law Society for England and Wales.

Francine Ryan is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Open Justice Centre at The Open University. She is also responsible for the operation and supervision of the Open Justice Law Clinic.

Michael Sales is a software developer with over 15 years’ experience in public and private sector roles, currently working at Newcastle University providing web and collaborative development support to the university research community.

Christopher Simmonds is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria Law School.

Rachel Stalker is a Senior Lecturer and Solicitor in the School of Law at Liverpool John Moores University. She established the pro bono Legal Advice Centre in 2014 and coordinates its continuing work.

Ann Thanaraj is the founder and host of ‘Lawyering in a Digital Age: Equipping students for technologically advancing practice of law’, an international initiative which brings together a global audience to shape the direction of legal education fit for a digital age; Ann is also Head of Online Learning at Teesside University and former Head of Law at University of Cumbria.

Linden Thomas is a Senior Lecturer and Supervising Solicitor of the pro bono programmes at the University of Birmingham Law School. She also manages the School’s Centre for Professional Legal Education and Research (CEPLER) and is Co-Chair of the Clinical Legal Education Organisation.

Lucy Yeatman is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and an in-house solicitor specialising in family law at the Liverpool Law Clinic.