Peter Bartlett is the Nottinghamshire Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust Professor of Mental Health Law, School of Law and Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham. Following two degrees in philosophy at the University of Toronto, he read law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Canada. After his call to the bar in 1988, he served as Law Clerk to the Justice of the Ontario High Court and then as research associate to the Ontario Enquiry on Mental Competency. He obtained his doctorate in 1993 and joined the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, where in April 2005 he was appointed to the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Chair in Mental Health Law. Professor Bartlett’s research interests are primarily in the area of mental disability (including psycho-social disability/mental illness and learning disability), both in England and Wales and internationally. He has provided advice regarding law reform in Lesotho and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for six years (four as chair) served on the board of the Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), a human rights organisation based in Budapest. From 2013–14, he was specialist advisor to the House of Lords Post-Legislative Scrutiny Committee on the Mental Capacity Act. His research interests include the Mental Health Act 1983 (England and Wales), the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (England and Wales), and the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He is also interested in the history of law and psychiatry, particularly in England.
Tracey Calvert is a lawyer who specialises in professional ethics, regulatory and legal compliance issues. She was previously employed by The Law Society as a senior ethics adviser and was part of the policy team at the Solicitors Regulation Authority which drafted the SRA Handbook. She now runs her own consultancy business, Oakalls Consultancy Limited, providing compliance services to other lawyers. She has written a number of books, is on the boards of the Legal Compliance Association and TLS’s Legal Compliance Bulletin, an officer of the professional ethics committee of the International Bar Association and a contributor to Cordery on Legal Services.
Clare Cowling is an Associate Research Fellow of the IALS, where the LRAR project was based, and was the project Director. She has been an archivist and records manager for over 40 years in Australia and the UK and has also managed two earlier projects on legal records under the supervision of William Twining: the Legal Records in the Commonwealth project, completed in 1994 and the Records of Legal Education project, which resulted in the establishment of the Records of Legal Education Archives at IALS in 2001.
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Emma Ferguson has worked in the Archives and Records Management profession since 2007 in a number of different sectors. Emma graduated from The University of Manchester in 2005; following this she volunteered in the Archives and Special Collections department at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester. She was a Graduate Trainee in Archives and Library studies at The John Rylands Library in 2008 and then successfully gained a place on a master’s degree in Archives and Records Management at the University of Liverpool, graduating in 2010. Her first post- qualification position was at the General Medical Council in a short-term contract as Records Officer. Emma was then offered the position of Archivist at Chadwick Lawrence Solicitors LLP, based in West Yorkshire, where she still currently works, in 2011 and was promoted to Head Archivist in 2012.
Philip Gale is the Head of Standards and Improvement Team at The National Archives, which has the responsibility to develop and deploy effective standards and good practice to support the effective care of and access to archives. The key standards it works with are Archive Service Accreditation and standards relating to Places of Deposit for Public Records. Since training at the University of Liverpool in 1983, Philip has held a variety of archival and records management posts with the Glamorgan Archives Service, Warwickshire Record Office, Bedfordshire and Luton Archive Service, the former Corporation of London Records Office and the Church of England Record Centre. He has a keen awareness of the importance of archives as an asset for supporting business operations and reputations as well as their wider historical and cultural significance for their owners and wider society.
Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and a Professorial Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Law at the Universita’ degli Studi di Siena and a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society, an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and based at Wolfson College. His books include Law in Modern Society and Western Concepts of Administrative Law.
Bettina Lange is an Associate Professor of Law and Regulation at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Bettina was a Jean-Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy from September 2004 to January 2005. She has carried out consultancy work for the Environment Agency for England and Wales on trust-based environmental regulation.
Nicholas Le Poidevin Q.C. is a barrister practising in London. He specialises in private client work, both contentious and non-contentious, appearing in some of the leading cases in trusts and estates in recent years, both in England and offshore, and has a particular expertise in the conflict of laws. He speaks and writes extensively on the law of trusts and estates and has for several editions been a senior editor of Lewin on Trusts. He has a strong interest in legal history and is editing for the Selden Society a collection of 15th-century law reports. A Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, he chairs its Library Committee and is keen to maintain and expand the Library’s holdings of historical material, both printed and manuscript.
Elizabeth Lomas is a Senior Lecturer in Information Governance at University College London. Her research currently focuses on the research needs for the digital evidence base (RecordDNA https://recorddna.wordpress.com/) and developing tools to aid the navigating of information management and compliance challenges for society and business. She has particular expertise in information rights law and its application in practice. She undertakes small scale consultancy projects and currently these are increasingly focusing on GDPR. She is a member of the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives and the Deputy Chair of the Forum on Historical Manuscripts and Research. Jane Marshall was admitted as a solicitor in 1978 and following a period working abroad has spent her professional career in the City. She specialises in corporate pensions law and has been involved in a wide variety of work, both contentious and non-contentious, ranging from international, privatisation and public sector work to public takeovers and regulatory disputes. A founder member of the Association of Pension Lawyers, she was a partner in a boutique pensions firm and a large national firm before becoming a partner of Macfarlanes LLP. Following her retirement from full-time practice in 2014 she now runs her own consulting firm. She is a Court member of the University of Dundee and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glovers of London. An author and speaker on pensions matters, with a particular interest in funding, regulatory and governance issues, she became a director of the Pensions Archive Trust in 2015.
Michael Reynolds is a solicitor and chartered arbitrator. He is currently the Module leader, International Dispute Resolution BPP University College London and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. He has more than 30 years’ experience in European antitrust law with Allen & Overy. He has represented a large number of corporations from the United States, Japan and Brazil and other international clients before the European Commission in merger control, cartel and unilateral conduct cases. He acted for Sun Microsystems in their complaint against Microsoft, leading to one of the most complex antitrust cases ever brought by the Commission. He has been involved in over 20 of the major cartel cases brought by the Commission including one of the first cases on cartel settlements. He was President of the International Bar Association (IBA) from 2013 until 2015 and past Chair of the IBA Antitrust Committee.
Alex Ritchie is a business archives specialist. Until March 2018 he was the Business Archives Advice Manager, Archives Sector Development, The National Archives. Prior to taking up this post he was, for 25 years, the Senior Curatorial Officer at the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, responsible for maintenance of the National Register of Archives until its merger with the Public Record Office to form The National Archives in 2003.
Derek Roebuck is a solicitor who has taught and practised law in England, New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Hong Kong. He is the editor of Arbitration, the Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Derek is Senior Associate Research Fellow at the IALS and Guest Professor at the People’s University of China. He was formerly Professor of Law (comparative law) in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Hong Kong. He has written over 40 books on law, legal history and language, including the seven-volume Peking University Press bilingual texts on Hong Kong contract, criminal law and procedure. Recently he has written on the history of dispute resolution: A Miscellany of Disputes (2000), Ancient Greek Arbitration (2001), The Charitable Arbitrator: How to Mediate and Arbitrate in Louis XIV’s France (2002) and Roman Arbitration (2004). He is now working on early English arbitration.
Maria Sienkiewicz qualified as an archivist in 1996 and spent eight years working in archives, libraries and museums in the public sector before moving to Barclays Bank as Group Archivist in 2004. Based in Manchester, Maria reports to the Company Secretary, and leads a team of four staff, who are responsible for the management of those records the Bank wishes to keep permanently. The archives comprise both hard copy and digital records and are used by a wide variety of Barclays business units around the world. The archives are also available for use by the public.
Judy Slinn read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. Since then she has researched and written about many aspects of business across a wide range of manufacturing and service industries in the UK, Europe and North America. She has written the histories of several of London’s international law firms, including Freshfields, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, Ashurst and most recently the firm that is now Hogan Lovells. Over the last decade her research focused on innovation and globalisation in the pharmaceutical industry and more recently on corporate governance, the latter resulting in the publication (with Laura Spira) of The Cadbury Committee: A history (OUP 2013). Until retirement she was Reader in Business History at the Oxford Brookes University Business School. She continues as an associate editor and writer for the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, as she has been since its inception. William Twining is patron of the Legal Records at Risk project, which was his brainchild. He was Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at UCL from 1983 until 1996; after a period as Research Professor he became Emeritus in 2004. He has held chairs in Belfast and Warwick and numerous visiting appointments. At the start of his career William taught for seven years in Sudan and Tanzania. He has maintained an interest in Eastern Africa, and more broadly the Commonwealth, ever since. He has studied and taught in several leading UK and American law schools. A prominent member of the Law in Context movement, he has contributed especially to jurisprudence, evidence and proof, legal method, legal education, intellectual history and legal archives. His recent work explores the implications of globalisation for legal scholarship and legal theory. Central themes include the variety and complexity of legal phenomena; that many so- called global processes and patterns are sub-global, linked to empires, diasporas, alliances and legal traditions; that diffusion, legal pluralism, and surface law are important topics for both analytical and empirical jurisprudence; that, in a world characterised by profound diversity of beliefs and radical poverty, the discipline of law needs to engage with problems of constructing just and workable supra-national institutions and practices; and that adopting a global perspective challenges some of the main working assumptions of Western traditions of academic law. He was awarded the 2016 Halsbury Legal Award for Academic Achievement.
Lisa Webley was at the time of the seminar a Senior Fellow at IALS and Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Westminster. She is now the Chair in Legal Information and Research, Birmingham Law School. She undertakes research on legal ethics, the legal profession and access to justice and was until recently on the University Research Ethics Committee which had oversight of all research in the University. She is Secretary of the International Association of Legal Ethics and General Editor of the journal Legal Ethics. She is the incoming co-director of the Legal Education Research Network.