Paul Fletcher
Senior Law Lecturer
Contact Details:
Address: John Foster Modular Building, 98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
Telephone: +44 (0) 151 231 3946
Email: P.W.Fletcher@ljmu.ac.uk
Organisational Role and Responsibilities
Paul is Senior Law Lecturer on the Legal Practice Course. He is on the teaching teams for Criminal Litigation, Professional Conduct, Money Laundering, Research and Advocacy. He is also the subject leader of the Advanced Criminal Litigation elective.
External Roles
Paul is an equity partner in a local firm, which employs approximately seventy staff members over three offices. Paul is the Managing Partner and also has overall responsibility for a large Criminal Department consisting of over 20 members of staff. He has a pivotal role in the practice in training and supervision of staff, which include supervising trainee solicitors and helping to prepare staff for the Police Station Accreditation Qualification. He is also the firm’s Money Laundering Reporting Officer. Paul has also been the Legal Services Commission crime category supervisor for over 10 years. He is a duty solicitor on the Liverpool Police Station, Magistrates Court and Community Justice Court schemes. He is a Higher Court Advocate and has rights of audience in all criminal courts. He sits on the Regional Duty Solicitor Committee representing the district of Liverpool and is also a Police Station Accreditation Qualification assessor for an external training organisation.
Paul is also a foundation governor at Bishop Martin Primary School in Woolton and sits on the school’s main governing body and on the finance and staffing committees.
Biography
After completing an LLB at the University of Northumbria in 1994, Paul studied on the part-time LPC here at LJMU, qualifying as a solicitor in July 1998. Paul has specialised in Criminal Law and Family Law. In practice he deals with all aspects of criminal matters from arrest to the Court of Appeal. His vast experience includes dealing with minor motoring matters to serious charges such as murder and drugs importation. With respect to Family Law, Paul has a wide range of experience of dealing with family and care applications before the Family Proceedings Court and the County Court. Paul also has some experience of welfare rights, housing, debt, consumer and personal injury work. Paul was appointed as a sessional tutor at LJMU in 2002 and became part-time Senior Lecturer in May 2004.
