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(Thomas) Martin Partington is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Bristol.[1]

He has over 45 years’ experience as a law teacher, researcher, and writer on a wide variety of legal subjects (including administrative justice, legal education, and the English legal system), a (part-time) legal practitioner, legal policy adviser, and a law reformer. He taught at the Universities of Bristol, Warwick, the London School of Economics, and Brunel University.[2]

He was associated with a wide range of bodies and institutions including, at different stages in his career, and for different lengths of time: the Hillfields Advice Centre in Coventry; the Legal Action Group; the Training Committee of the Institute of Housing; the Management Committees of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux in Coventry, Paddington, and Uxbridge; the Education Committee of the Law Society; the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Aid; the Independent Tribunal Service for Social Security Appeal Tribunals; the Judicial Studies Board (both the main Board and its Tribunals Committee); the Council on Tribunals; the Civil Justice Council (and its sub-committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution); the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools; the Socio-Legal Studies Association; and the Socio-Legal Research Users’ Forum.

For a number of years he was Training Adviser to the then President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals and also sat as a part-time Social Security Tribunals Chairman.

He acted as an expert adviser to the Council of Europe, examining Alternatives to Litigation in Disputes between the Individual and the State.[3] In May 2000, he was appointed expert consultee to the Review of Tribunals, set up by the Lord Chancellor and chaired by Sir Andrew Leggatt. He was a member of the Gaymer Review of Industrial Tribunals, 2002.

From 2001 to 2005, he was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales; he was retained as a Special Consultant to the Commission from 2006 to 2008.

In 2002 he was appointed CBE; in 2006 he was elected as a Bencher of Middle Temple; in 2008 he was appointed QC (Hon). In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association's prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community.

He is currently a member of the Executive Board of JUSTICE; and a Civil Justice Council; working party on housing dispute resolution. He chairs the Board of the Dispute Service, a company under contract with government to provide tenancy deposit protection and dispute resolution.[4]

Bibliography

  • Landlord and Tenant:  Cases, Materials and Text (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975; 2nd ed. 1980.)
  • Taxing the Brain Drain,  Vol.I.  "A Proposal" (ed. with J Bhagwati) (North-Holland, 1976)
  • Welfare Rights: A Bibliography on Law and the Poor, 1970- 1975 (Frances Pinter, 1976) (with John Hull and Susan Knight)
  • Claim in Time: A Study of the Time-Limit Rules for Claiming Social Security Benefits (Frances Pinter, 1978) (2nd ed., published by Legal Action Group, 1989; 3rd ed. 1994)
  • Welfare Law and Policy (ed. with Jeffrey Jowell) (Frances Pinter, 1979)
  • Quiet Enjoyment (LAG, 1980) (1st ed. 1980 - 6th ed. 2002) (with Andrew Arden QC)
  • Housing Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 1983) (with Andrew Arden)
  • Bibliography of Social Security Law (Mansell, 1986) (with P. O'Higgins)
  • Housing Law, Cases Materials and Commentary (1991, Sweet and Maxwell) (with J Hill)
  • Housing Law (2nd ed., 1994, Sweet and Maxwell) (further updating releases annually) (with A Arden QC and C Hunter)
  • Council on Tribunals Annual Reports: Annotated Index, 1959-1993 (1st ed. 1994, University of Bristol) (with M Chapman, and M Fletcher)
  • Administrative Justice: A Working Bibliography (1st ed, 1996, University of Bristol) (with M Chapman, M Harris, and M Fletcher)
  • “United Kingdom” in International Encyclopedia of Laws; Social Security (Kluwer Law International, 1st ed. 1998 - 4th ed. April 2012)
  • Administrative Justice in the 21st Century (Hart Publishers, 1999) (with Michael Harris)
  • English Legal System: An Introduction to the (1st ed., Oxford UP, 2000 - 11th ed., Oxford UP, 2016)
  • Law in the real World: the Nuffield Inquiry on Empirical Research on Law (London, Nuffield Foundation, 2006) (with Hazel Genn and Sally Wheeler)
  • Law’s Reality: Case Studies in Empirical Research on Law (Editor) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) Special Research Issue of the Journal of Law and Society
  • Halsbury’s Laws of England Legal aid Volume 65 (Consulting Editor) (2008)
  • Halsbury’ Laws of England Courts and Tribunals Volume 24 (Joint Consulting Editor) (2010)
  • The Development of Professional Legal and Judicial Education in Qatar, (2012) Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre, Doha) (with Chloë Smythe)
  • Developing Professional Legal Education in Qatar, (Pre-consultation paper and questionnaire) (2013) Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre, Doha) (with Chloë Smythe)

References

  1. ^ "University of Bristol website".
  2. ^ "Professor Martin Partington". Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 30 (4): 279–281. 2008-12-01. doi:10.1080/09649060802580755. ISSN 0964-9069.
  3. ^ Europe, Council of (2000-01-01). Alternatives to litigation between administrative authorities and private parties: conciliation, mediation and arbitration : proceedings, multilateral conference, Lisbon (Portugal), 31 May-2 June 1999. Council of Europe Pub. ISBN 9789287142061.
  4. ^ "Martin Partington - Board and Staff | Tenancy Deposit Scheme". www.tenancydepositscheme.com. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
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