THE CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW CONFERENCE 2010

CHAIR

Professor Ian Dennis MA, PhD, University College London; Editor, Criminal Law Review

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Lord Justice Leveson, Chairman, Sentencing Guidelines Council (London Conference only)

SPEAKERS

Professor Andrew Ashworth QC, DCL, FBA, CBE, University of Oxford

Professor Diane Birch, JC Smith Professor of Law, University of Nottingham

Anthony Edwards, Senior Partner, TV Edwards

Kingsley Hyland OBE, Crown Prosecution Service

Professor David Ormerod, Queen Mary, University of London

Dr David Thomas QC, LLD, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Professor Andrew Ashworth QC, DCL, FBA, CBE is Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford. He is a Case Commentator for the Criminal Law Review, Co-editor of Emmerson, Ashworth and Macdonald, Human Rights and Criminal Justice, and is the Author of Sentencing and Criminal Justice and Human Rights, and Serious Crime and Criminal Procedure.

Professor Diane Birch is JC Smith Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham. She is an Editorial Board Member for the Criminal Law Review and Editor of Blackstone’s Criminal Practice. Diane is also a Consultant to the Law Commission’s Reports on Hearsay and Previous Misconduct.

Professor Ian Dennis is Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Criminal Law at University College London. He is the Editor of the Criminal Law Review, a door tenant of chambers at 9 Bedford Row, London WC1, and a consultant to the Law Commission on reform of the criminal law. He is the author of The Law of Evidence (4th ed, 2010) and numerous articles and essays on criminal law, criminal evidence and procedure.

Anthony Edwards qualified as a solicitor in 1974 and has always specialised in criminal law. He is Senior Partner of TV Edwards LLP, a duty solicitor, and a higher courts advocate (Criminal Courts). Anthony Edwards is a member of the Council of Justice and of the editorial boards of Criminal Law Review and Cordery on Solicitors. He is a member of the Law Commission’s advisory group on criminal law. He is the author of Advising a Suspect in the Police Station (Sweet and Maxwell) and, Fixed Fees in the Criminal Courts; (with Roger Ede) of Criminal Defence, A Guide to Good Practice (Law Society) and (with Joanne Savage) of Sentencing Handbook Guidelines in the Criminal Courts.

Kingsley Hyland OBE is a Solicitor-Advocate and Head of the Complex Casework Unit for CPS North East. Admitted as a solicitor in 1981 and a lawyer with the CPS since 1986, he served as the CPS representative on inter-agency Intercept as Evidence Review in 2003-4 and chaired the PII sub-group of the Joint ACPO/CPS Advanced and Specialised Disclosure Project in 2004-5. He sits on the Peer Review Group of the ongoing inter-agency review of RIPA. He is the CPS representative on National Source Working Group and on the National Undercover Working Group, the CPS lead tutor on covert law enforcement issues, and Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Leveson was appointed Queens Counsel in 1986, and a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales in 2000. From 2002 he was a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit. In 2006 he was both appointed as Deputy Senior Presiding Judge and as Lord Justice of Appeal. He was Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales in 2007and was appointed Chairman of the Sentencing Guidelines Council in January 2010.

David Ormerod is Professor of Criminal Justice at Queen Mary College, University of London. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and many case commentaries. He is the author of Smith and Hogan, Criminal Law (12th ed. 2008), Smith and Hogan Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (10th ed. 2009 ),Smith’s Law of Theft (9th ed 2007) with David Williams and Fraud: Criminal Law Procedure (2008) with Clare Montgomery QC. David is the Criminal Law Review Cases Editor; General Editor for Blackstone’s Criminal Practice; and serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Evidence & Proof and Covert Policing Review. He lectures regularly to the Judicial Studies Board, the legal profession and to various prosecution agencies. David is also a member of the Criminal Justice Council, and is a Barrister in the Chambers of David Etherington QC, 18 Red Lion Court, London. He is a Bencher of Middle Temple.

Dr David Thomas QC, LLD has specialised in the study of the law and practice of sentencing for over thirty years. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) in 1996. He is the Editor of Current Sentencing Practice, the Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing), Sentencing Cases Editor of the Criminal Law Review, Sentencing Editor of Archbold, author of the Sentencing Referencer, and a regular contributor to other publications. He frequently lectures on behalf of the Judicial Studies Board and other organisations, including the Criminal Bar Association. David is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

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