Edward Phillips
Principal Lecturer, Law
International Link Tutor, LLM and BA in Law (UNYT) Tirana, Albania
Courses
- Legal Method
- Criminal Law
- Law of Evidence
- Public Shipping Law (for Greenwich Maritime Institute)
Tel: 020 8331 9465
Email: e.p.phillips@gre.ac.uk
Office: Queen Mary 211
Qualifications
1980 - University: LL.B. University of Malaya
1982 - B.C.L. Oxford University
Teaching Experience
1980 - Tutor: Law Faculty, University of Malaya.
1983 - 1985: Lecturer - Law Faculty, University of Malaya.
1984 - 1985: Lecturer - Bar Council (Malaya), Certificate in Legal Practice.
1985 - 1986: Tutorial Assistant - Department of Law, University of Hull.
1986 - 1991: Lecturer - Law Faculty, University of Buckingham.
1991 - Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Greenwich
1992 - Principal Lecturer, University of Greenwich
Professional Experience/Appointments
1988 - Part-time Researcher, Law Commission of England and Wales. Research subjects: Computer Misuse and the Criminal Law, Corroboration and the Law of Evidence.
1993 - 2009 General Commissioner of Income Tax (Waterloo Division, London)
1993 - 1996 Director, Shepherd House Project (Charity for the housing, care and support of homeless ex-offenders)
1999 - 2003 National Executive, Society of Legal Scholars
2005 - Visiting Lecturer (Criminal Law, Evidence and Procedure), University of Pecs, Hungary
2005 - 2007 - Trustee, Broken Rainbow (Charity providing help and support for victims of domestic violence)
2008 - Visiting Associate Professor, Law Faculty, University of Malaya, Malaysia
2009 - Library Committee, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
External Examining
1994 - 1999: External Examiner, Thames Valley University. Subjects: Evidence, Comparative Criminal Law, Law and Medicine
2000 - 2003: External Examiner, Buckinghamshire and Chilterns University College. Subjects: Criminal Law, Evidence, English Legal System
2000 - 2001: External Assessor, MPhil to PhD Progression Board, University of Hertfordshire
2001 - External Assessor, Final Year Project, King’s College, London
2004 - 2006: External Examiner CPE programme (Law of Contract, Law of Torts, Criminal Law), London Metropolitan University
2011 to date: External Examiner, London Metropolitan University, Postgraduate Diploma in Maritime Law
Current Administrative and Supervisory Responsibilities
- International Link Tutor, LLM and BA in Law (UNYT) Tirana, Albania
- Chair, Research Ethics Committee, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Course Coordinator - Law of Evidence; Public Shipping Law
Professional and Academic Associations
Society of Legal Scholars
Socio-Legal Studies Association
Association of Law Teachers
Research Interests
- The admissibility and use of evidence obtained through hypnosis
- Women who kill: infanticide and post-natal depression
- Law and art
Research Funding:
£2,500: Development of IOLIS software for Criminal Law (joint author: Criminal Law), Law Courseware Consortium, Warwick University (funded by the Teaching and LearningTechnology Programme), 1995
£1,000: Developing Mock Trials for the use of teaching Legal Skills, the Criminal Justice System and Criminal Law (funded by Enterprise in Higher Education), 1996
£8,000: Developing PDP for Law students, 2006
Publications
"The Science of Proof: The Admissibility of Expert Forensic Evidence under English Law", in "Pleadings - A festschrift for Prof Florian Tremmel" (2011, Studia Juridica, Pecs, Hungary - ISBN 9789636423827)
“Legal Myth-Making: Medea and the Legal Representation of the Feminine ‘Other’ ”, in: Unbinding Medea: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Classical Myth from Antiquity to the 21st Century, edited by Anne Simon (Bristol University) and Heike Bartel (Nottingham University); Legenda Press (due date: autumn 2010)
“Diminished Responsibility and Intoxication: Interpretation, Policy and Authority in R v Dietschmann”, (2004 – 2005) Denning Law Journal 19
“The Incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights: Maintaining the Integrity of a Modern Criminal Justice System within the Context of Improperly Obtained Evidence” (2003) 9(2) Contemporary Politics 185
“The Law Relating to Theft “(co-authored with Walsh and Dobson), Cavendish Publications, (2001)
“R v Woollin: Settling Intention in the House of Lords” [1999] 33(1) The Law Teacher, 338
“A Briefcase on the Law Of Evidence”, Cavendish Publications, (1996)
"R v Adomako: Is this the Last Word on Negligent Manslaughter?" (1995) 29(3) The Law Teacher 338
"Setting National Human Rights Goals - Human Rights Training for Public Officials". Prepared in collaboration with the Human Rights Unit of the Commonwealth Secretariat. The Human Rights Unit intends that this will serve as a Manual to be used in national seminars organized by the Unit for public officials as an aid to identifying national human rights goals and strategies.
"Testing the Truth: The Alliance of Science and Law", in Criminal Justice in Crisis edited by Michael McConville & Lee Bridges, Elgar Publishing, (1994).
"A Comparative Study of Compensatory Discrimination - Cautionary Tales for the United Kingdom" in Discrimination: The Limits of Law edited by Professor Hepple (University College, London) and Dr Szyszcak (LSE), published by Mansell (1992) as part of the Studies in Labour and Social Law series.
"Drastic Solutions: A Comparative Study of Emergency Powers in the Commonwealth" [1990] Denning L.J. 57
Participated in research leading to the publication of Law Commission Working Paper No. 110 (1988) on "Computer Misuse"; authored the Comparative Study included in the Appendix.
Member of the Editorial Board, Treaty Series for the Association of South‑East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The first volume of the Series was published at the beginning of 1986.
"Developments in Equity and Trusts in Malaysia - 1984", Annual Survey of Malaysian Law [1984]
"Developments in the Criminal Law of Malaysia - 1983", Annual Survey of Malaysian Law [1983]
Conference Papers
2009 –“ Legal Method and Legal Reflection: Experiential Learning in the Law School, Third Legal Education Symposium”, University College Dublin, Ireland, (March 2009)
2009 – “War Crimes and the Protection of Cultural Property”, International War Crimes Conference, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, (February 2009)
2007 – “Freedom of Religion and Cultural Mores in Islam: A Malaysian Case Study”, Law and Religion Conference, Lancaster University, Sept 2007
2006 – “Legal Myth-Making: Medea and the Legal Representation of the Feminine ‘Other’, Bristol University, (July 2006).
2006 – “The Regulation of Ship-Source Pollution: Recent Developments in EU Law”, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, University of Stirling, (March 2006)
2005 – “The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: Stories of Law and Justice in Post-Colonial Botswana”, Conference on law and Literature, University of Gloucester and Texas Wesleyan School of Law, Gloucester, (March 200)
2003 – “Constructing and Developing a Human Rights Curriculum: The Claims of Culture and Context”, Conference on ‘Global Challenges in Legal Education, Warwick University, (March 2003)
2001 – “The Admission of Illegally Obtained Evidence: Comparisons with Canada”, Conference on the ‘Development of a Human Rights Culture’, British Association of Canadian Studies (Legal Studies Group), London , (March 2001)
1997 – “The Reception of the Common Law in Malaysia and Singapore and Utilizing the Mock Trial in the Teaching of Criminal Law”, both for the joint conference of the UK and Irish Association of Law Teachers, Galway, Ireland, (March 1997)
1995 – “The Use of Judicial Discretion in deciding the Admissibility of Evidence”, World Conference on New Trends in Criminal Investigation and Evidence, The Hague, (December 1995)
1995 - “The Criminalisation of Consensual Sexual Acts”, British Criminology Conference, Loughborough University, (July 1995)
1994- “An End to the Rule in Hyde v Hyde: the Legal Recognition of Non-Orthodox Family Relationships”, Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, (March 1994)
1992 – “Teaching the Case-Law Method”and “The Treatment of Muslim Law in the Courts of England and Wales”, both for the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Keele, (April 1992)
1991 – “A Comparative Study of the Protection of Indigenous Rights”, Paper for Conference on 'Indigenous Rights in the Pacific and North America: Race and Nation in the late Twentieth Century', Centre for Australian Studies, (May 1991)
1991 – “The International Protection of Computer Software Within the Context of Transborder Transfers of Technology”, 6th Annual Conference of the British and Irish Legal Education Technology Association, Durham University,(March 1991)
1990 – “The Legal Admissibility of DNA Evidence”, Conference on the Use and Legal Implications of DNA, University of Buckingham, (1990)
1985 – “Teaching Constitutional Law: Review and Reform”, Conference on Asian Legal Education, Penang, Malaysia, (February 1985).