Prof Sir David Yardley

Career: Nat Serv Flying Offr Educn Branch RAF 1949-51; called to the Bar Gray's Inn 1952; fell St Edmund Hall Oxford 1953-74 (emeritus 1974-), Barber prof of law Univ of Birmingham 1974-78, head of Dept of Law, Politics and Economics Oxford Poly 1978-80, Rank Fndn prof of law Univ of Buckingham 1980-82 (hon prof 1994-), visiting prof Oxford Brookes Univ 1995-2001; chm Cmmn for Local Admin in England 1982-94, complaints cmmr SIB (then FSA) 1994-2001, ind complaints reviewer Lottery Forum 2005-06; chm: rent assessment ctees, rent tbnls and nat insurance local tbnls 1963-82 and 1995-99, Oxford Preservation Tst 1989-2009 (vice-pres 2010-), Examining Bd and Awards Panel Inst of Revenues, Rating and Valuation 1994-2006; FRSA 1991

Books and Publications: Introduction to Constitutional and Administrative Law (1960, 8 edn 1995), A Source Book of English Administrative Law (1963, 2 edn 1970), The Future of the Law (1964), Principles of Administrative Law (1981, 2 edn 1986), Geldarts Introduction to English Law (ed 1995), Hanbury and Yardley's English Courts of Law (1979), The Protection of Liberty (with I Stevens, 1982)