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Mr Oliver Bennett

Job: Associate Professor

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Address: The Gateway, ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥, Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 257 7913

E: obennett@dmu.ac.uk

W: /bal

 

Personal profile

Oliver Bennett, LL.B (Hons) (Durham) 1995, Solicitor, admitted 2000. ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ Teacher Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Trained and practised in two large commercial firms in Newcastle and Leicester, specialising in Employment Law before joining ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ and then acted as a consultant for a large regional law firm for 15 years afterwards. 

He has previously been an External Examiner at several institutions, the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Chief External Assessor for Employment Law on the LPC, an Academic Practice Officer for the Law School, a Faculty Equality Reviewer and Provost and a Chair of Validation Panels.

Areas of teaching

Legal Skills and Business Law on the Legal Practice Course & SQE

ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ taught

Legal Practice Course & SQE

Honours and awards

ÃÛÌÒÖ±²¥ Teacher Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Membership of professional associations and societies

Law Society

Professional licences and certificates

Solicitor

Projects

Course Director of the Blended Legal Practice Course

Consultancy work

15 years as a consultant at Nelsons Solicitors.