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Dr David Capper
Reader
Contact Details
Email address
d.capper@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3473
Room 30.203, 30 University Square
Degrees
LL.B, Queen's University Belfast
Certificate in Professional Legal Studies, Queen's University Belfast
LLM (with first class honours), Cambridge University
PhD, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Biography
After practising at the Bar of Northern Ireland for five years David Capper was appointed to the post of Lecturer in Law at Queen's University Belfast in 1989 and and was promoted to Reader in June 2002. In 1990-91 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is the Queen's University constituency representative on the council of the Society of Legal Scholars in Great Britain and Ireland and was a member 1995-2001 (vice-chair 1997-2001) of the Lord Chancellor's Legal Aid Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland. He also serves as a lay member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland's Insolvency Licensing Committee and is company secretary of SLS Legal Publications (NI) Ltd. From 1996-98 he was Assistant Editor of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and since May 2001 has been Editor of that journal.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Contract
- Insolvency Law
- Introduction to Property Law
- Torts
Research
Contract, Insolvency Law, various aspects of Commercial Law, Civil Procedure and Legal Aid.
Selected Publications
Mareva Injunctions (1988) SLS/Sweet & Maxwell
"Judging the United States Supreme Court: an Outsider's View of the Right of Privacy" (1992) 69 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 545
"Damages for Breach of the Equitable Duty of Confidence" (1994) Legal Studies 313
"Undue Influence and Unconscionability: a Rationalisation" (1998) 114 Law Quarterly Review 479
"Direct Payment Clauses and the Pari Passu Principle" (1998) Company, Financial & Insolvency Law Review 54
"The Contingency Legal Aid Fund: A Third Way to Finance Personal Injury Litigation" (2003) 30 Journal of Law & Society 66
Administration
- Assistant Dean of Faculty of Law 1992-95
- Adviser of Studies to Law & Accounting students 1995-2001 and to all joint degree Law
- undergraduates 1999-2001
- Examinations Officer, School of Law 2001-2006
- Member of Research & Scholarships Committee 1996-present
- Member of Business Education Initiative Management Board 1999-present
- One of three university Esquire Bedell 2000-present
