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NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
Jonathan Dickens is Professor of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, UK. His research interests focus on the role of the law and the courts in social work practice with children and families. Research undertaken includes studies on care proceedings, decision-making in edge of care cases and care planning for children in care. He is the author of Social Work and Social Policy: An Introduction (2nd edn, 2016, Routledge) and Social Work, Law and Ethics (2013, Routledge).
Beverley Burke is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. She has practised as a social worker with children and families and has published widely in the areas of anti-oppressive practice, values and ethics. Beverley is co-editor of the practice section of the international peer-reviewed academic journal Ethics and Social Welfare.
Jane Dalrymple has extensive experience in social work practice and education. Currently she works as a freelance trainer and consultant, an associate lecturer at the University of the West of England and is an assessor for the National Advocacy Qualification. Her previous publications include Anti-Oppressive Practice: Social Care and the Law co-authored with Beverley Burke and Effective Advocacy in Social Work co-authored with Jane Boylan.
Jonathan Herring is a Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University, and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University. He has written on family law, medical law, criminal law and legal issues surrounding care and old age. His books include: Vulnerable Adults and the Law (2016, OUP); Caring and the Law (2014, Hart); Older People in Law and Society (2009, OUP); European Human Rights and Family Law (with Shazia Choudhry, 2010, Hart); Medical Law and Ethics (2016, OUP); Criminal Law, (2016, OUP); Family Law (2015, Pearson); and The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (2009, Pearson).
Robert Johns is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the CASS School of Education and Communities, University of East London, UK where he has been Head of Social Work. He has over 30 years experience in social work with children and vulnerable adults, and has written extensively on social work law. He is author of Using the Law in Social Work, now in its sixth edition, Social Work, Social Policy and Older People and, most recently, Capacity and Autonomy.
Kim Holt is Professor of Social Justice and family Law and Head of the Department for Social Work and Communities at Northumbria University, UK, and a qualified barrister in the area of Family Law. Prior to being called to the bar in 2005, Kim practised as a social worker in the area of child protection for 20 years.
Her Honour Judge Sally Dowding was educated at the University of Manchester (LLB) and at Keele University (MA Child Care Law and Practice), UK. She was articled in Manchester and thereafter practised as a solicitor in Reading and in North Wales. She was a partner in a firm of solicitors in Bangor, and a long-serving member of the Law Societys Children Panel, representing children in public and private law proceedings across the six counties of North Wales. She was appointed a District Judge, based in Birmingham, in February 2007 and a Circuit Judge in July 2013. She now sits at Wolverhampton and Walsall where she deals primarily with public and private law children work, with a special interest in adoption. She is also a Nominated Judge of the Court of Protection.
Martin Wasik CBE is Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Keele, UK. He is also a Recorder of the Crown Court.
Penny Cooper, Barrister, is a Professor of Law and is the international expert on intermediary schemes for vulnerable witnesses and defendants. She chairs The Advocates Gateway (theadvocatesgateway.org), an internationally renowned website which she co-founded in 2012 to provide best practice guidance on the evidence of children and vulnerable adults. Penny is also a witness familiarisation specialist and former governor of the Expert Witness Institute. She is an academic associate at 39 Essex Chambers, London.
Tom Obokata is Professor of International Law and Human Rights at Keele University, UK. His expertise lies in transnational organised crime generally, and human trafficking in particular. He has published extensively on these topics, and provides expert advice nationally, regionally and internationally.
Margaret Flynn is the Independent Chair of Lancashires Safeguarding Adults Board and joint editor of the Journal of Adult Protection. She has chaired and written several types of reviews addressing the deaths and abuse of adults with learning disabilities and adults with mental health problems, including the Winterbourne View Hospital SCR. She is Senior Associate Consultant at CPEA and previously held research positions at the Universities of Manchester, London and Sheffiled.
Hilary Brown is Emeritus Professor of Social Care, Canterbury Christ Church University. Throughout her career she has specialised in safeguarding vulnerable adults and her research has focused on sexual abuse, financial abuse, the policy framework, the efficacy of training and the use of the 2005 Mental Capacity Act in complex cases. Until 2013 she chaired a Safeguarding Adults Board and she conducts safeguarding adults reviews. She is also a UKCP accred-ited psychotherapist.
