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Who am I?
Before embarking on a career in the legal profession, I studied Chinese at Leeds University and subsequently worked as a tour guide and translator and then as Editorial Assistant on The China Quarterly, published by OUP. I trained and qualified as a solicitor at Allen & Overy, specialising in commercial dispute resolution before moving to Eversheds in Leeds where, amongst other things, I worked for local authorities, universities and colleges in public sector dispute resolution and also for the government on the Bloody Sunday Inquiry and Harold Shipman Inquiry. I then moved into teaching and writing and I am now a Senior Lecturer in the Manchester Law School at Manchester Metropolitan University. I have a particular interest in socio-legal issues including gender, sexuality and human rights, LGBTQI+ issues, legal ethics, language and the law and the impact of creativity in teaching.
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Mandarin Chinese
I was an Editor and Contributor to the website EachOther.org which you can access here https://eachother.org.uk
EachOther is a UK-focused charity that uses independent journalism, storytelling and filmmaking to put the human into human rights.
I also contributed these short videos to LGBT History Month in 2020.
Queer Judgments Project - an international multidisciplinary project to recast and reimagine legal judgments impacting queer lives. I am working on the ECHR judgment EB v France (https://swarb.co.uk/eb-v-france-echr-14-mar-2007/) in collaboration with Dr Sanna Elfving, University of Bradford and Miriam Schwarz, PhD candidate at Cambridge University. Publication date 2024
I am Unit Leader for Professional Ethics on the Bar Training Course and Projects: Public Legal Education on the LLB.
Our Bar Training Course (BTC) is professionally focused and brings together the essential practical skills, legal knowledge and understanding of professionalism required to thrive at the Bar, or in a …
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Personal Tutees
Editor and Contributor on the award winning EachOther.org website (2014-2016), a charity aimed at increasing public understanding and awareness of human rights. You can read examples of my work below.
How Human Rights Protect Transgender People 27 March 2016
https://eachother.org.uk/transgender-human-rights-laws-protect…
It’s High Time We Made Forcing High Heels On Women Illegal 12 May 2016
https://eachother.org.uk/its-high-time-we-made-forcing-high-heels-on…
A Brief History Of Homophobia 17 May 2016
https://eachother.org.uk/short-history-homophobia
‘Gendercide’: Do Sex-Selective Abortions Breach Human Rights 27 June 2016
https://eachother.org.uk/gender-based-abortions-breach-human-rights
The Fascinating Story Of Jeanette Smith And Graeme Grady 27 September 2016
https://eachother.org.uk/story-smith-grady
Who Were The Suffragettes? Remembering The Struggle For Women’s votes…
https://eachother.org.uk/suffragettes-remembering-struggle-womens-votes
Old dogs, new tricks: Simulated practice and client settings in the form of objective structured professional assessment could be used to assess professional ethics, Solicitors Journal, 08 Jun 2020 Old dogs, new tricks
I am currently working towards my first poetry collection and you can read/hear an example of my poetry here:
‘Queen’s Gambit Accepted’ by Katie Jukes (Issue 88 Pennine Platform) https://pennineplatform.com/2021/01/24/1290