Anita Ellis
Head of Professional Legal Studies
Contact Details:
Address: John Foster Modular Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3936
Email: A.Ellis@ljmu.ac.uk
Organisational role and responsibilities
Anita is Head of Professional Legal Studies at the School of Law and the Programme Leader for both the Legal Practice Course and Graduate Diploma in Law. She is responsible for attendance and is assessments officer for both programmes. She works primarily on the LPC and GDL with some input into the succession module on the LLB. She teaches Property Law & Practice, Commercial Property, Business and Solicitors’ Accounts, Tax, Interviewing & Advising, Wills and Administration and Legal Research on the LPC. She teaches on the Land module and is part of the English Legal System team on the GDL. She is the subject leader for Tax and Business Accounts.
External Roles
Anita is a member of Liverpool Law Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is an External Examiner at both Hertfordshire University and Anglia Ruskin University for their LPC.
Biography
After obtaining a degree in Physiology and Pharmacology from Sheffield University, Anita did the CPE and qualified as a solicitor in 1995. She worked after qualification in Preston in a Commercial Property department dealing mainly with site acquisitions for builder clients as well as dealing with the running of the plot sales. Anita continued working in the North West, expanding her areas of law to include probate and residential conveyancing. Anita moved into legal education in July 1998 after being appointed Senior Law Lecturer at LJMU. She was appointed as the Deputy Course Leader on the LPC in August 2004, in November 2005 she became acting Course Leader and in August 2006 was appointed LPC Course Leader. She has completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education and has commenced a LLM in the area of succession and comparable jurisdictions particularly regarding intestacy and cohabitees. She hopes to continue pursuing this area of research and incorporate it into her LLB teaching. She has been back in practice since starting at LJMU to keep updated in the areas of property and probate.
