Paul Matthews, Esq's Biography

Paul Matthews, Esq's Professional Career

Career

called to the Bar Gray's Inn 1981 (Stuart Cunningham Mackaskie KC Award, Mould scholar); admitted slr: Eng and Wales 1987, Ireland 1997; slr-advocate Eng and Wales 2001; lectr in law UCL 1979-83 (pt/t tutor 1978-79), pt/t tutor St Edmund Hall Oxford 1979-80, barr in private practice 1982-84; Hopkins & Wood: legal asst 1984-87, ptnr 1987-92, conslt 1992-96; conslt slr Withers LLP 1996-; HM coroner City of London 2002- (dep coroner 1994-2002), dep coroner Royal Household 2002-06, dep coroner ad hoc N London 2004-07; visiting lectr: City Univ 1981-84, UCL 1985-86, Inst de Droits des Affaires Univ d'Aix-Marseille 1991-99; visiting prof KCL 1995- (visiting sr lectr 1991-94), visiting prof Jersey Inst of Law 2009-; dep Chancery master High Court 2008-, recorder (civil) 2010-; memb Coroners Unit Resources Sub-Gp Home Office 2004-05, memb experts gp PRM III-IV EU 2005-08 and PRM III EU 2008-, specialist advsr House of Commons Constitutional Affrs Ctee 2006-08, coroner memb Review Bodies 2006-; dep chair Tst Law Ctee 2005- (memb Working Party on: Tstee Exoneration Clauses 1997-98, Tstee Indemnities 1998-99); vol N Islington Law Centre 1981-88; memb: Soc of Legal Slrs 1979-, Law Soc of Eng and Wales 1987- (memb Coroner's Courts and Inquests Working Party 2003-), Br Inst of Int and Comparative Law 1989-, Coroner's Soc of Eng and Wales 1994-, Soc of Tst and Estate Practitioners 1996-, Assoc of Contentious Tst Probate Specialists, Slrs' Assoc of Higher Court Advocates 2001-, Seldon Soc 2002-, Stair Soc 2003-, Assoc Il Tst in Italia; tstee David Isaacs Fund 2003-; academician Int Acad of Estate and Tst Law 2004-; Liveryman City of London Slrs' Co 1992-; FRSA 1994, FRSM 2005

Paul Matthews, Esq's Publications

Books and Publications

Jervis on Coroners (contrib, 10 edn 1986, 11 edn 1993, and 12 edn 2002), The Jersey Law of Trusts (jtly, 1988, 3 edn 1994), The Jersey Law of Property (jtly, 1991), Disclosure (jtly, 1992, 4 edn 2012), A Guide to the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (jtly, 1993), A Practitioner's Guide to the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 (jtly, 1996), Butterworths Business Landlord and Tenant Handbook (co-ed, 1996, 4 edn 2007), Trusts: Migration and Change of Proper Law (1997), Hill and Redman's Law of Landlord and Tenant (contrib, 18 edn 1999), Trust and Estate Disputes (1999), Halsbury's Laws of England (author Mistake, 4 edn reissue 1999 and 2005, 5 edn 2010, ed Cremation and Burial, 4 edn reissue 2002, 5 edn 2010, ed Evidence, 4 edn reissue 2002 and ed Coroners, 4 edn reissue 2006, 5 edn 2010), Study Guide on the Law of Trusts (2009, 3 edn 2011), Underhill & Hayton's Law of Trusts and Trustees (jt ed, 18 edn 2010); author, co-author, book reviewer and ed of numerous articles in learned jls and professional pubns incl Law Soc's Gazette and Law Quarterly Review

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