Overview
Role
Reader in Law (Teaching and Scholarship).
Qualifications
LL.B, B.Ed (vocational training), LLM in Legal Practice
Solicitor
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
Responsibilities
LLM-LEGAL PRACTICE COURSE and LLM-BAR TRAINING COURSE: overall module lead for the LLM Research Project and Reflective Portfolio elements of the LLM-LPC and LLM-BTC.
EXPERT WITNESS CERTIFICATE: director and lead assessor of the Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon (CUBS) Expert Witness Certificate scheme run by Cardiff University in conjunction with the UK legal training provider Bond Solon.
HR PROFESSIONALS CPD: manager and assessor of schemes of employment law training and assessment for HR professionals.
CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION: supervisor of students participating in the pro bono "Streetlaw" employment law project - a collaboration between Cardiff University, Swansea University and the University of South Wales to provide guidance to unrepresented claimants at the Wales Employment Tribunal.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: departmental Academic Misconduct co-ordinator.
Research
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Sarah Saunders (2022) 'Compliance with the rules of court as an expert witness'.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Forensic Engineering
Volume 175, 2022 issue 4 (November 2022), pages 93-95
ICE Publishing, London.
Sarah Saunders (2019) 'Streetlaw – assisting access to justice in the Employment Tribunal: A practice report'.
The International Journal of Public Legal Education, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019), 50-74.
Sarah Saunders (2019) 'Blackstone's statutes on employment law 2018–2019' review.
The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education, 53:3, 393-395.
Sarah Saunders (2016) 'How civil engineers can be better expert witnesses'.
Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Forensic Engineering
Volume 170, 2017 issue 1 (February 2017), pages 6-7
ICE Publishing, London.
Sarah Saunders (2016) 'Use your judgment'.
RICS Modus, December/January issue, page 42
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Sunday, London.
Sarah Saunders (2016) 'Ask the assessor – first aid for the medical expert witness'.
Royal College of Physicians – Commentary
October 2016, issue 5, pages 16-17
Royal College of Physicians, London.
Sarah Saunders (2004) 'The application of practical legal research in the solicitor's office'.
Legal Information Management, 4 (2004), pages 44-47
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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Biography
I studied law at Aberystwyth University and the College of Law, Guildford. Following my training, I worked as a solicitor at Morgan Bruce and Morgan Cole (now Blake Morgan LLP) in Cardiff and Swansea, specialising in company and commercial matters. This included company and business sales and acquisitions, corporate finance, non-contentious employment law, and occupational pension schemes. I continued to provide advice to Morgan Cole on a consultancy basis following my appointment to Cardiff University.
Early in my University career, I pursued a further degree course on a part-time basis at the University and graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree in vocational training. I published an article on practical research skills for trainee solicitors based on my B.Ed dissertation. I have also published several articles on expert witness skills for professionals.
Later, I researched and wrote a Masters dissertation on the decline in employment tribunal claims between 2013 and 2017, and was awarded a LLM in Legal Practice. I have also published a practice report on the "Streetlaw in the Employment Tribunal" project I supervise as part of the University's pro bono offering to students.
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Professional memberships
Higher Education Academy / Advance HE:
- Senior Fellow of the HEA
- Fellow of the HEA
Member of:
- Clinical Legal Education Organisation
- Law Society of England and Wales
- Cardiff & District Law Society
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Supervisions
LLM - employment law research projects for students pursuing the LLM-LPC and LLM-BTC.
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Contact Details
Specialisms
- professional legal education
- expert witness
- employment law
- clinical legal education
- academic integrity