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Attorney General welcomes new website to help questioning of vulnerable witnesses post-Savile
Attorney General Dominic Grieve has highlighted the importance of the way in which vulnerable witnesses are questioned at a special reception to mark the launch of a new website called The Advocate's Gateway, which brings together best practice in the area. Read more about the story on the Kingston University website03 May 2013Read More
Kingston Business School building shortlisted for architectural award
Kingston’s Business School building has once again been shortlisted for a Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) Regional Award. It is the second time the building has been honoured with a shortlisting for the award since it opened in 2012. Director of Estates Delivery Sean Woulfe said, ‘”We are delighted that Kingston has again been recognised for the quality of its...01 May 2013Read More
View from the Hill magazine - Spring 2013 issue is out now
The latest edition of View from the Hill – the magazine of Kingston Law School and Kingston Business School is out now. It contains some interesting articles from a selection of our academics including Professor Penny Cooper describing recent ground-breaking changes to the support offered to witnesses who give evidence in court in Seeking the best evidence; Professor Giampiero Favato...25 April 2013Read More
Kingston Law School leads regional pilot in early resolution of student disputes
Complaints and appeals and their outcomes can have significant consequences for the individuals or groups lodging them and for the individuals, institutions and bodies named in, or associated with, them. The Kingston University “Early Resolution of Student Disputes” pilot project led by Kingston Law School senior lecturer, Susan Watson, is part of an Office of the Independent Adjudicator (...02 April 2013Read More
Students step up as legal aid cuts bite
A centre based at Kingston University which provides free legal advice to people living in the surrounding area is taking on an increasing number of cases as cuts to legal aid loom. Kingston Law School's Community Legal Advice Centre, launched in September 2012, is dedicated to providing free legal advice to individuals, charities, businesses and community groups from Kingston and the...28 March 2013Read More
A business challenge is not just for business students, as Kingston Law School's Law Bees prove
On Wednesday 6th March 2013, Kingston Law School student team ‘The Law Bees’, made their way to the head offices of one of the biggest companies in the world, Proctor & Gamble, to take part in the semi-finals of the IBM Universities Business Challenge 2013. Out of 310 teams from universities across the country, only 80 made it through to the semi-finals, so the competition was tough!...20 March 2013Read More
Global financial crises explained in new book by Kingston Law School lecturer
The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 underlined how important it is to examine the origins and causes of financial collapses. A new book by Kingston Law School lecturer Dr Vincenzo Bavoso entiled, Explaining Financial Scandals: Corporate Governance, Structured Finance and the Enlightened Sovereign Control Paradigm has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Dr Bavoso contends that...15 March 2013Read More
Professor Penny Cooper says jurors shouldn't face ridicule
Professor Penny Cooper, a Kingston Law School professor of law insists that the jurors involved in the collapse of the Vicky Pryce trial should not face ridicule. Penny said the jurors should not be taken to task for their questions. “Whilst the judge’s comments are completely understandable it would be most unfortunate if in the future jurors felt reluctant to ask questions,” she explained...28 February 2013Read More
Juries need direction and explanations says Professor Penny Darbyshire
Kingston Law School's Professor Penny Darbyshire has a particular specialism in the English legal system and criminal justice, especially judges, magistrates, magistrates' clerks, juries, and plea bargaining. She is the author of two books on the subject . “I have served as a juror, written fairly extensively about juries and, since 2002, spent many days each year observing Crown Court trials,...28 February 2013Read More
Dr Tribe invited to be Editor of the Mithani: Directors’ Disqualification Newsletter
His Honour Judge Abbas Mithani QC has invited Dr John Tribe to replace Professor Rebecca Parry (Nottingham Law School) as Editor of the Mithani: Directors' Disqualification Newsletter. Judge Mithani QC is general editor of the two-volume Mithani: Directors’ Disqualification, the leading looseleaf publication on directors’ disqualification published by LexisNexis and a circuit judge. Dr...27 February 2013Read More
