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Email

ef269@cam.ac.uk

College Teaching Officer (Robinson College)

MA (Cantab), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Keele)

Interests

Criminal law, sentencing, the relationship between disciplinary/regulatory matters and criminal proceedings, criminal procedure and evidence.

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

I am a part-time College Teaching Officer at Robinson College, where I supervise Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure and Evidence, and Criminology, Sentencing and the Penal System on the undergraduate course.

Having read Law as an undergraduate at Cambridge, I went to Kaplan Law School to complete the BPTC as a Lord Denning Scholar of The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. At the end of the BPTC I was awarded the Cloth Fair Scholarship by the Kalisher Trust. Returning to Cambridge, I completed the MPhil in Criminology before doing a PhD at Keele University on an ACORN scholarship which was jointly funded by Keele and The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. This research was a change from my previous academic interests as it took a socio-legal track to explore the capacity of professional associations to influence the behaviour of the profession, examining especially this capacity in relation to the socio-economic demographics of entrants to the profession. During my PhD I was a College Teaching Associate at Robinson College.

After my PhD I completed pupillage at a leading set of criminal chambers in London. Since October 2016 I have combined being a tenant practising from 5 Paper Buildings, both prosecuting and defending, with being a College Teaching Officer.

 

Publications

 

Books

New Trajectories in Law: Sentencing, 2021)

A Practitioners' Guide to Ancillary Orders in the Criminal Courts (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Social Mobility and the Legal Profession: The Case of the English Bar (Routledge, 2018)

Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781138052697
Published Mar 2018

Articles

"Leaving the Gloss Off: A critique of the appellate courts’ approach to reinterpretation of law cases" [2022] 138 LQR 239

Citation:
[2022] 138 LQR 239
Published: Apr 2022

"Experts and pretenders: Examining possible responses to misconduct by experts in criminal trials in England and Wales" [2020] E&P, 24(2), 180-207

Citation:
[2020] E&P, 24(2), 180-207
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1365712720913336
Published: Apr 2020

"The new law on releasing terrorist offenders: is it acceptable in principle, and if so, will it achieve its intended purpose? (Legislative comment) " (2020) Archbold Review, 3, 4-7

Citation:
(2020) Archbold Review, 3, 4-7
Published: Apr 2020

"We need to talk about Charlie: Putting the brakes on unlawful act manslaughter" (2018) Criminal Law Review, 8, 612-632

Citation:
(2018) Criminal Law Review, 8, 612-632
Published: Aug 2018

"Driving force: dangerous driving and self-defence " [2018] Cambridge Law Journal 77(1), 9-12

Citation:
[2018] Cambridge Law Journal 77(1), 9-12
Published: Mar 2018

"Overcrowding under the disciplinary umbrella: Challenges of investigating and punishing sexual misconduct in universities" [2018] International Journal of Law in Context, 14(1), 1-21

Co-Author/s:
A.D. Johnson
Citation:
[2018] International Journal of Law in Context, 14(1), 1-21
Published: Jan 2018

"Punishment and Rehabilitation: Uneasy bedfellows under s.44 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013?" (2017) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50(3), 439-455

Citation:
(2017) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 50(3), 439-455
Published: Sep 2017

"Couldn’t Tell You Even If I Wanted To? Anonymity of Journalists’ Sources, Voluntary Disclosure and Abuse of Process" (2017) Journal of Criminal Law, 81(3), 167-176

Citation:
(2017) Journal of Criminal Law, 81(3), 167-176
Published: Sep 2017

"IPP: How long is too long?" (2017) Archbold Review, 3, 4-7

Citation:
(2017) Archbold Review, 3, 4-7
Published: Mar 2017

"Causing or allowing the death of a child: challenges to working out ‘which of you did it’?" (2016) Criminal Law Review, 9, 616-624

Citation:
(2016) Criminal Law Review, 9, 616-624
Published: Sep 2016

"Yes, no, maybe – recent cases on consent and freedom to choose" (2016) Archbold Review 1, 6-9

Citation:
(2016) Archbold Review 1, 6-9
Published: Jan 2016

"Case in detail: R v Hunter" (2015) Archbold Review 5, 4

Citation:
(2015) Archbold Review 5, 4
Published: May 2015

"Lies, damned lies and [criminal] statistics" (2014) Archbold Review 6, 6-9

Citation:
(2014) Archbold Review 6, 6-9
Published: Jun 2014

"Bristow: A dangerous intervention? " (2014) Archbold Review 1, 6-8

Citation:
(2014) Archbold Review 1, 6-8
Published: Jan 2014

"First time lucky? Exploring whether first time offenders should be sentenced more leniently" [2013] 77 JCL 163

Citation:
[2013] 77 JCL 163
Published: Apr 2013

"Courts: In camera or on camera?" [2012] 176 CL&J 585

Citation:
[2012] 176 CL&J 585
Published: Oct 2012

"From Chicago to Malta: possible explanations for avoiding jury service" [2012] Arch Rev. 6, 6-7

Citation:
[2012] Arch Rev. 6, 6-7
Published: Jun 2012

"R v Gnango: The Curious Case of Bandana Man - Parts 1 and 2" [2012] 176 CL&J 181 and 212

Citation:
[2012] 176 CL&J 181 and 212
Published: Apr 2012

Conference Papers

"Social mobility and socio-economic diversity in legal education: What can be learnt from an attempt to improve diversity at the Bar?" ('How do we research and teach equality and diversity in legal education settings?' LERN and Sheffield Law School)

Conference:
'How do we research and teach equality and diversity in legal education settings?' LERN and Sheffield Law School
Published: Sep 2016

"'12 Angry Men' (and women) and their smartphones" (British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Nottingham)

Conference:
British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Nottingham
Published: Jul 2016