Deveral Capps

SPECIALISMS:

Deveral is a common law practitioner with specialisms in ecommerce law and road traffic.

MEMBERSHIPS:

Inner Temple
North-Eastern Circuit
Society of Legal Scholars
Association of Law Teachers

PUBLICATIONS:

Articles
Parliament’s response to the Millennium Bug, New Law Journal 16th July 1999.
E-Conveyancing: the future of property transfer, New Law Journal 8th June 2001.
Conveyancing in the 21st Century; An outline of Electronic Conveyancing and Electronic Signatures. The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 2002, September –October.
You’ve got mail, New Law Journal 25th June 2003.
Electronic Mail and the Postal Rule International Commercial and Company Law Review, 2004, 15 (7).
A Blueprint for the Future, the Barristers’ Exempting Degree, Counsel, February 2005.
Mastering the skills of the Bar, The Barrister Magazine, September 2005.
Legal Qualifications for Doctors: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, The British Medical Journal Bulletin 6th May 2006, co-authored with James Gray.
Court Appearance, Jane’s Police Review, 30 July 2010.
Vulnerable Witnesses and Defendants, North-Eastern Law Society Updater, November 2011.
A time for change? The Legal Education and Training Review, The Barrister, October 2011.

Books
A Practical Guide to Lawyering Skills, 3rd ed, 2005, Cavendish Publishing, London, (joint author).
The Law of Electronic Commerce, Northumbria Law Press, September 2005.
Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary, Contributor, Sweet and Maxwell, London, 2001
The Law Student’s Handbook, Contributor, Oxford University Press, 2010

EDUCATION:

LLB (Hons.), Sheffield Hallam University
LLM in Computers and Law, The Queen’s University of Belfast
Certificate in Education, University of East Anglia

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Deveral is a full-time member of staff at Northumbria University where he sits on the Executive Committee and is the Director of Strategic Development within the Law School. He teaches advocacy skills on the bar course and e-commerce law to LLM students. Deveral has published widely on contract law, e-commerce law, legal education and legal skills. He is a member of the Advocacy Training Council; an external examiner for both the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board; and also sits on the steering committee for the national Legal Education and Training Review that is currently in progress.