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Alastair Teague
23-Oct-2005

Margaret Hemsworth ... Senior Lecturer

LLB Lond, LLM Brist, Solicitor, ILTM

Email: M.C.Hemsworth@ex.ac.uk

Address: Centre for Legal Practice, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, UK EX4 4RJ

Telephone: (+44) (0) 1392 26 3152

Secretary: (+44) (0) 1392 26 3157

Fax: (+44) (0) 1392 26 3400

Research interests:
Civil litigation procedure; Insolvency Law and Practice; Insurance Law

Teaching:
Civil Litigation (LPC); Insolvency (within BLP); Housing and Welfare Law elective; and Insurance Law elective

External positions or appointments:  

External Examiner at Nottingham Trent University and at the College of Law for Interviewing (York Branch) and Welfare Benefits elective (Chester Branch).

Recent publications:

‘Housing: Sampson and Another v. Wilson and Others 1995 (26[HLR] 488) and Court of Appeal Judgment 22 March 1995’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 18(1),1996: pp. 76-88.

‘Claiming Professional Privilege for copied documents’, Civil Justice Quarterly, 1996: pp. 323-330.

‘Acts of omission in medical professional negligence’, Solicitors Journal, 1996: volume 140 no.34, pp. 870-872.

‘Pitfalls for small claims litigants’, New Law Journal, 1996 volume 146 no.6759 pp.1319-1320.

‘Corporate insolvency - the exclusion of debenture holders from Insolvency Act provisions- Re Yagerphone revisited.’ - Insolvency Law and Practice volume 13 no.2 1997 pp.48-52.

‘ I met a man who wasn’t there…’: The problem of the dissolved defendant in civil proceedings’ - Professional Negligence issue 13.3. 1997, p.70-73.

‘Life Assurance and the co-habitant: the Law Commission’s reforms on privity of contract’ 57 CLJ 55-62.

‘Subrogation: the problem of competing claims to recovery monies’, Business Law Journal, March 1998 111-122.

‘Consequential loss claims -case comment on Sprung v. Royal Insurance’, [1998] LMCLQ 154-160.

‘Disclosure under the new Civil Procedure Rules’, NLJ volume 148, nos. 6855 and 6856 pp1300-1331, p.1352 and p.1356.

‘The New Model Order 14 - a comparison between RSC Order 14 and draft part 14 of the Civil Procedure Rules’, NLJ volume 148 (17.4.98) pp555-556.

‘Part 36 offers and payments’, NLJ volume 149 , 12.2.99 issue at p.194, p. 227 and in 19.2.99 issue at pp263-264.

‘Inducement in Insurance Law: sins of commission and sins omission’, CLJ, volume 58(1) pp59-66.

‘Housing Law and procedure under the Civil Procedure Rules’, Solicitors Journal 2.7.99 p.634-635.

‘Applications under the Civil Procedure Rules’, Solicitors Journal, 1^st October 1999.

‘Directors’ powers during an administrative receivership: the power to take legal proceedings’, The Insolvency Lawyer, 1999 issue 3, pp92-98.

‘Insurance Policies and Directors Insolvency Act Liability’, The Insolvency Lawyer 1999, issue 7, pp288-295.

‘Conditional fee agreements and litigation funding’, NLJ, issue for 5.11.99 at 1660-1662).

‘Constructive trusts and constructive trustees’ and section 21 of the Limitation Act 1980’, C.J.Q. (April 2000) 154-167

'Voidable preference; desire and effect', Insolvency Law and Practice, vol 16 number 2 (2000) 54-57.

'The nature of the insurer's obligation reconsidered: liability and property insurance, [2001] LMCLQ 296-304.

"UK Insurance Cases reported 2000", LMCLQ [2001] 504-550

"UK Insurance Cases reported 2001", LMCLQ [2002] 29-63

'English Insurance Law', in International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook 2003: 52-76.

Review of John Butler and Robert Merkin, Reinsurance Law, London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1995 revised 2002, in Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 2003:520-521.

Review of Malcolm Clarke, The Law of Insurance Contracts, London, LLP, 2002, in Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 2004, pages not yet known.

'English Insurance Law', in LLoyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly Yearbook 2004, pp62-101.

'English Insurance Law' , International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook (LMCLQ) 2005, pp 49-92.

 

Other related activities/ contributions

Offered written comments to the Joint Consultation Paper produced by The Law Commission on Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 1930.

Numerous book reviews for The Insolvency Lawyer and International Company and Commercial Law Review