Phone: +44(0)121 204 3422
Email: [email protected]
Room: SW 715

Land Law, Equity and Trusts, Contract law, Landlord and tenant law, Housing law, Comparative  Property law, Jurisprudence.

Formerly, Chair Mansfield Law Society. Barrister of Gray's Inn. Director of Legal Research and Director of Mooting.

External Examiner in Equity and Trusts, Land Law, Housing Law at University of Westminster. External Examiner at BPP University College in UG LL.B. Equity and Trusts and Jurispurdence and GDL Equity and Trusts.

External Assessor University of London External Programme LL.B.

Member Society of Legal Scholars, Property Section

James has experience of supervising PhD Law Students and is willing to consider PhD applications in the fields of property law, land law, equity and trusts, landlord and tenant law, and contract law.

Current supervision of PhD Student researching into the enforceability of non-contractual promises and where this fits into the taxonomy of private law obligations.

James has also examined two doctoral theses at other UK universities.

Missing Persons Group

In 2011, he was invited to attended a Parliamentary Meeting of the Cross-Parliamentary Missing Persons Group in late 2010 and the follow on Parliamentary Inquiry, at the House of Commons. This Inquiry was aimed at looking into the practical and legal implications of when people go missing. He was particularly keen to assist the Meeting and subsequent Inquiry insofar as it looked into the legal problems encountered when people go missing, in particular the legal implications for the missing person and their friends and family. The existing law relating to Missing Persons is not fit for purpose. This whole area is ripe for law reform and is currently before Parliament, gaining cross party support, where the existing law relating to the 7 year presumption of death and the issue of managing a missing persons legal affairs, in the short term, is being considered.