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Criminal Law Week was established as a weekly, printed publication in 1997 by James Richardson KC to provide comprehensive coverage of developments in criminal law. He was editor until December 2017.
Building on a strong print following, Criminal Law Week Online launched in 1998.
In 2006, Criminal Law Week’s Statutes Service was added to the online service, providing subscribers with fully up-to-date and annotated text of the most relevant criminal legislation.
In 2008, Criminal Law Week won the prestigious BIALL (British and Irish Association of Law Librarians) Legal Journals Award, which aims to reward the publishing profession for quality products and outstanding contributions in the field of legal serial titles.
Sweet & Maxwell (part of Thomson Reuters) acquired Criminal Law Week in 2008 adding to its already well established and successful crime portfolio.
In 2017 we incorporated the CPD Course for Barristers and the Continuing Competence Course (CCC) for Solicitors into the core Criminal Law Week service.
As a highly-respected legal journal, Criminal Law Week has been cited in court at all levels, and is widely used by barristers and solicitors, the judiciary, the Crown Prosecution Service, cademic institutions and others within the criminal justice system.
Deborah Colbran Espada, Principal Editor
Deborah, who studied law at Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor in 2004, after her training contract at city law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. She joined Criminal Law Week as an assistant editor in July 2005, and has since been involved in all aspects of the publication. Deborah developed and launched the Statutes Service in 2006 and the new website in 2011. Since 2008 she has managed the publication of Criminal Law Week every week, in addition to writing digests for the publication, editing and managing the Statutes Service, and managing the website, the CPD courses and the Criminal Law Week team. Deborah became the principal editor in 2018.
Lucinda Hecquer, Managing Editor
Lucinda, a New York qualified attorney, studied law at University College Cork, and then completed an LL.M in International Criminal Law at Columbia Law School and the University of Amsterdam. She joined Criminal Law Week in 2014 as a senior editor. In addition to writing digests, Lucinda has been involved in various other aspects of the publication. She became the managing editor in 2018.
Aaron Turpin, Freelance Assistant Editor
Aaron studied law at the London School of Economics, both as an undergraduate and post-graduate, before being called to the Bar in 2001. He was a law reporter on the All England Law Reports for a number of years, before working as technical editor on the Industrial Relations Law Reports. He was managing editor of Simon's Tax Cases from 2008 to 2015. Since 2016 he has been a freelance writer and editor, writing for a number of publications. He joined Criminal Law Week in 2017.
Amanda Wright, Freelance Assistant Editor
Amanda studied law at Cardiff University and took the Legal Practice Course at BPP in London. She went straight into publishing and has worked as a technical editor on the All England Law Reports, series manager of the All England Law Reports (Commercial Series) and a technical editor/writer for Halsbury’s Laws of England. She went freelance in 2018 and now writes and edits for a number of publications as well as series managing Simon’s First-tier Tax Decisions. She joined Criminal Law Week in 2021.
From 2018, a new board of experts from across the profession was established for Criminal Law Week. The board provides insight through comments to the digests which are authored by the Criminal Law Week editorial team.
Andrew Campbell-Tiech KC primarily practises in crime, regulatory and professional discipline, and considers each area to be in urgent need of reform. He is a recorder (criminal and civil), arbitrator, former part-time coroner and former head of Dyers Chambers and Drystone Chambers. Widely published in his chosen fields, he is also the editor of Butterworth’s Money Laundering Law.
Bartholomew Dalton is a solicitor and key member of the Serious and General Crime team at top-ranked London criminal defence firm Hickman & Rose. He is an experienced police station representative, advocate in the Magistrates’ Court and litigator in the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts. Bartholomew is co-author of Blackstone’s Magistrates’ Court Handbook 2023, published by Oxford University Press, and is currently working on the 2024 edition.
Edward Grange is a partner at Corker Binning. He is recognised as a leader in the field of extradition law and has extensive experience in defending requested persons in extradition proceedings. Edward is ranked as a "Star Individual" by Chambers UK 2021 in the field of Crime: Extradition. Edward is the co-author with Rebecca Niblock of Extradition Law: A Practitioner's Guide (LAG: 2021, 3rd ed). He is the co-founder and past chair of the Defence Extradition Lawyers Forum. In addition to his extradition work, Edward advises on a variety of criminal litigation matters, particularly in the business crime arena.
Daniel Greenberg CB is a lawyer specialising in legislation and the legislative process. He served in the Lord Chancellor's Department (1988–1991), as Parliamentary Counsel (1991–2010), as a consultant at Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP (2010–2016) and as Counsel for Domestic Legislation in the House of Commons (2016–2022). He takes up appointment as Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards on 1 January 2023. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the New Year Honours List 2021, for services to Parliament. He also serves as the General Editor of Westlaw UK Annotated Statutes and Topics Encyclopaedia. He provides drafting and training services on legislation around the world. He is the Editor of Craies on Legislation, Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary and Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law. His book Laying Down the Law was published by Thomson Reuters in 2011. He holds a number of academic appointments and interests.
Donal Lawler was called to the Bar in 2008 after a successful career in business and IT consulting. He is a criminal barrister at 187 Fleet Street and has a wide-ranging criminal defence practice including fraud, money laundering and confiscation proceedings, serious violence offences, drugs, robbery and extradition matters.
Adrian Lower has been a District Judge (Magistrates' Court) since 2012. He also undertakes Prison Adjudication. Before his appointment, he sat as a Deputy District Judge in the County Court and had over 20 years of experience prosecuting in the magistrates and crown courts, culminating in working in the Director of Public Prosecutions Private Office and the Appeals Unit of the Crown Prosecution Service.
Roderick Munday is Reader Emeritus in Law at the University of Cambridge, Fellow Emeritus of Peterhouse, Cambridge, a Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn, and a former Visiting Professor at the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. He has written on a wide range of subjects, but his interests lie predominantly in the fields of the Law of Evidence, Procedure, and Commercial Law. His textbook, Evidence, is in its tenth edition, he is the current editor of Cross & Tapper on Evidence, and his book Agency: Law and Principles is in its third edition.
Rebecca Niblock is a partner at Kingsley Napley. She has significant experience in both domestic criminal litigation and extradition, having acted for defendants in a wide range of criminal matters from serious fraud, money laundering and corruption, to sexual offences and offences involving violence or drugs. She advises on a wide range of white collar crime matters including SFO and FCA investigations. She also has extensive experience of representing individuals at police station interviews. Rebecca specialises in cases involving cross-jurisdictional elements. She has successfully defended a large number of persons requested by other states, both inside and outside the EU in extradition proceedings at all levels from the magistrates' court to the Supreme Court. She has experience in advising in sanctions cases, and in providing advice to those subject to Interpol red notices and mutual legal assistance requests. She is the co-author with Edward Grange of Extradition Law: A Practitioner's Guide (LAG: 2021, 3rd ed).
Nicola Padfield KC is a Professor in Criminal and Penal Justice at the Law Faculty, University of Cambridge, where she has worked for more than 30 years. She was Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge from 2013 to 2019 and is now a Life and Honorary Fellow. She was called to the Bar in 1978, sat as a recorder in the Crown Court from 2002 to 2014, and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
Nathan Rasiah KC is a barrister practicing in criminal law from chambers at 23 Essex Street. He prosecutes and defends in all areas of criminal law. He has also taught criminal law and criminal procedure and evidence at the University of Cambridge.
Maya Sikand KC has been in practice at the Bar since 1997. She was appointed as a Recorder (Crime) in April 2018. She is a civil liberties and human rights barrister at Doughty Street Chambers specialising in public law as well as private law damages claims against public bodies, having first spent over a decade defending in crime. She maintains an appellate only criminal practice which focusses primarily on trafficked victims and the sentencing of women and children and young people. She is a contributing editor of Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice and contributes to Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: Law and Practice (Bloomsbury Professional, 2020).
Sebastian Walker co-authors the sentencing chapter for Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence & Practice and Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice. He is also an editor of the Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing) and Current Sentencing Practice and was a contributing author to Miller on Contempt. He is a barrister at 36 Crime and a teaching associate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He previously taught criminal law at the London School of Economics and worked at the Law Commission and the Attorney General's Office.
Natalie Wortley practised at the criminal Bar for over ten years and is now Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria University. Her research focuses on vulnerability and criminal evidence, and she has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles, case notes and book chapters in these areas. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars, a Legally Qualified Chair of Police Misconduct Panels, a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) and a First-Tier Tribunal Judge (Mental Health).
David Wurtzel practised at the Bar for 27 years before joining City, University of London in 2003. There he helped to devise and deliver all the training for registered intermediaries on behalf of the Ministry of Justice and in Northern Ireland. He has contributed to Criminal Law Review, and is a co-author of Vulnerable People and the Criminal Justice System (OUP) and of the 2015 Registered Intermediary Procedural Guidance Manual. He also lectures to the Bar and the judiciary. For six years he was consultant editor of Counsel, the magazine of the Bar. He is now Fellow Emeritus of City, University of London, a Bencher of Middle Temple and a Door Tenant of Red Lion Chambers. In 2023 he published his novel, The Chosen City: Hollywood in the 1930s.
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