Editors

Derek French, BSc. Derek French works in legal publishing. He is co-author of Mayson, French and Ryan on Company Law and author of Applications to Wind up Companies and How to Cite Legal Authorities. He is editor of Blackstone's Statutes on Company Law and has also written on insolvency law, accountancy and management.

Stuart Sime, LLB, Barrister. Stuart Sime is the course director of the full-time bar vocational course at the Inns of Court School of Law, where he teaches civil litigation, commercial and company law. He was a practising barrister until 2005. In his early career he spent a number of years in the litigation department of the Treasury Solicitor's Office. He is author of A Practical Approach to Civil Procedure.

Contributors

Evan Ashfield, LLB, Barrister. Evan Ashfield is Head of Chambers, Temple Chambers. He is co-author of Sale of Goods and Consumer Credit in Practice, a contributor to Inns of Court School of Law Manuals and former Chairman of the Free Representation Unit.

Julie Brannan, MA (Oxon), Solicitor. Julie Brannan is Director of the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice. She was formerly a litigation partner at Herbert Smith.

Stuart Bridge, MA (Cantab), Barrister. Stuart Bridge is a University Lecturer in Law and a Fellow of Queens' College in the University of Cambridge. He is an editor of Theobald on Wills and of Megarry and Wade's The Law of Real Property. He is currently a Law Commissioner for England and Wales and he sits as a county court and Crown Court recorder.

Julie Bowne, LLB Barrister. Julie Browne is a deputy course director of the bar vocational course and the City aw School, where she teaches advocacy, civil litigation, drafting, company law and commercial law. She was called to the Bar in 1989 and during 10 years in full-time practice, she undertook a wide variety of general civil and commercial work, including insolvency, company and property litigation. She is the series editor of the 14 bar vocational manuals, published by Oxford University Press. She is also an experience CPD trainer in advocacy, evidence, case preparation, drafting and litigation.

Iain Colville, LLB, Barrister. Iain Colville is a barrister at Arden Chambers. He practises in the fields of housing, landlord and tenant, planning, compulsory purchase, and local government law, and he has extensive experience acting for private individuals, registered social landlords and local authorities. His publications include A Guide to the Planning Process (Arden's Housing Library); A Guide to the Greater London Authority Act, Annotations to the Greater London Authority Act 1999, Current Law; and a chapter on ‘Planning and Human Rights' in Human Rights Act 1998 - A Practitioner's Guide.

District Judge Peter Jolly, MA (Oxon). Peter Jolly was appointed a district judge in November 1993. He sits full time at Portsmouth Combined Court, dealing with a mixed civil and family caseload. Before appointment he was a partner in a provincial High Street practice with offices in surrey and Hampshire.

Adrian Keane, LLB, Barrister. Adrian Keane is Professor of Law and Dean of the Inns of Court School of Law, City University, where he teaches evidence and advocacy on the Bar Vocational Course. His many publications include The Modern Law of Evidence.

Lisa Laurenti, LLB, solicitor (non-practising). Lisa Laurenti is a deputy course director of the bar vocational course and the City Law School, teaching civil litigation, professional negligence and drafting. When in practice, she was a partner in a Legal 500 firm where she specialised in professional indemnity and civil fraud work.

Andrew Lidbetter, MA (Oxon), BCL, Solicitor. Andrew Lidbetter is a litigation partner at Herbert Smith specialising in public law including judicial review and human rights. He is the author of Company Investigations and Public Law, is on the advisory board of Judicial Review and frequently writes and speaks on public law.

Alan Owens, LLB, Solicitor. Alan Owens is a partner in the commercial litigation and arbitration department at Irwin Mitchell, specialising in group claims, particularly in the financial and antitrust sectors. He has lectured widely on civil procedure and is an editor of the Civil Court Service Newsletter.

His Honour Judge William Rose, Circuit Judge. William Rose was appointed a circuit judge in 1998 and was the resident circuit judge at Wandsworth County Court in south-west London from 2001 until his death on 10 May 2007. He was the author of Pleadings Without Tears and a contributor to the Inns of Court School of Law Manuals on Remedies and Opinion Writing. He was a Member of the Board of Examiners of the Inns of Court School of Law between 1990 and 2001. He was Director of Studies at the Judicial Studies Board from 2002 to 2004 and was appointed a Judicial Member of the Parole Board in 2004.

John Ungley. John Ungley is a master of the Supreme Court, assigned to the Queen’s Bench Division. He was appointed to the masters’ corridor in 1997 and since October 1999 has been assigned to clinical negligence cases. With the late Master Nigel Murray and latterly Master Basil Yoxall, he developed the ‘suggested model directions’, now in version 4, which have become the norm for clinical negligence cases. He is a member of the Clinical Disputes Forum and the Clinical Negligence and Serious Personal Injury Committee of the Civil Justice Council. Until 2004, he was a recorder of the Crown Court, Western Circuit. John Ungley plans to retire in October 2008.

District Judge Michael Walker, CBE. Michael Walker was appointed a district judge in April 1994. For 13 years he sat full time at Wandsworth County Court with a mixed workload of civil and family cases but more recently has been seconded to the Senior Presiding Judge’s office at the Royal Court of Justice. Before his appointment to the bench, he was a partner in a South London firm of High Street, legal aid, solicitors. Since 2000 he has been Honorary Secretary of the Association of District Judges.

Matthew Weiniger, MA (Cantab), Solicitor Advocate. Matthew Weiniger is a partner at Herbert Smith practising in the international arbitration group. He specialises in international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution (particularly in banking, investment and joint venture disputes). He also advises on matters relating to public and private international law.

District Judge Ivor Weintroub, LLB. Ivor Weintroub sits in Bournemouth County Court. He is also a Recorder of the Crown and County Courts and is an Honorary Visiting Lecturer to the Business and Law Department of Bournemouth University LPC course. He has lectured and been a tutor judge on civil and family courses for the Judicial Studies Board.

Angela Wright, BA (Hons), solicitor. Angela Wright is a senior lecturer on the corporate legal practice course at the College of Law, London, Moorgate. Previously she was a partner in a Legal 500 London firm of solicitors specialising in family law and was also a consultant in relation to legal aid matters.