Richard Grimes

Biografía

Richard Grimes qualified as a solicitor in 1977 and worked initially in a law centre and later as a full-equity partner for a provincial law firm, handling a wide range of, principally, publicly funded cases. He has retained an interest in law teaching and research as well as legal practice in the belief that the one informs the other and has worked at several universities in England and Ireland. In 1990 he joined Sheffield Hallam University where he established an in-house solicitors’ practice in which undergraduate law students handled real cases under professional supervision, as an assessed elective. He was seconded to the University of the South Pacific from 1995 – 1997 where he became the Director of the Institute for Justice and Applied Legal Studies. In 1998 he was appointed Head of Law and Professor of Legal Education at the University of Derby and in 2000 joined The College of Law as Professor and Director and of Pro Bono Services and Clinical Education. From 2006 to 2010 Richard acted as an independent consultant on a variety of legal education projects in the UK and further afield including in Afghanistan, Iran and Nigeria. He is now Director of Clinical Programmes at the York Law School, University of York. He has published widely on clinical legal education issues and in the legal skills field. He remains committed to learning by doing and to improving access to justice.