Dr Jeremy Robson

Jeremy Robson is an experienced practitioner and academic whose research centres on removing barriers to justice that exist in the rules of evidence.

Jeremy joined DMU in 2018. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1999 and practised as a Barrister across the Midlands, specialising in criminal work. In 2008 he joined Nottingham Trent University. Whilst at NTU, he developed Europe’s first LLM in Advocacy Skills, a bespoke programme commissioned by the Attorney General of Malaysia. He also established and was director of the Centre for Advocacy as well as launching the International Advocacy Teaching Conference.

Jeremy’s research examines the barriers to justice which traditional rules of evidence create. He specialises in interdisciplinary research working with psychologists, linguists, phoneticians and criminologists. In 2019, Jeremy was part of a multidisciplinary team who received funding from the ESRC to develop a new procedure for police voice identification parades. His work on voice identification has been widely cited nationally and internationally.

Jeremy teaches Evidence on the LLB and Litigation and Advocacy on the professional programmes. He has experience in PhD supervision and is always willing to discuss potential supervisions with interested candidates.

Jeremy holds an LLM in Legal Practice, a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2020 Jeremy was appointed as a fee paid Tribunal Judge, assigned to the Social Entitlement Chamber.

Jeremy is an academic tenant at KCH Garden Square.

Jeremy is a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Society

Journal Articles

Wright, D., Robson,J., Murray-Edwards H., and Braber, N., (2021) 

The pragmatic functions of ‘respect’ in lawyers' courtroom discourse: A case study of Brexit hearings. Journal of Pragmatics 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.028

Robson, J., Newman, L., and O’Hagan, A. (2021) Redrawing the boundaries: The adequacy of the Sexual Offences Act in addressing female sexual offending. Journal of Criminal Law. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022018320984451

 Robson, J. and Bettinson, V. (2020) Prosecuting Coercive Control: Reforming Storytelling in the Courtroom. Criminal Law Review, 12, pp. 1107-1126

Smith, H.M.J., Bird, K., Roeser, J., Robson, J., Braber, N., Wright, D. and Stacey, P.C. (2020) Voice parade procedures: optimising witness performance, Memory, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1673427

Robson, J. and Smith, H. (2019) Can we have faith jurors listen without prejudice? Likely sources of inaccuracy in voice comparison exercises. Criminal Law Review, , 2, pp.115-130

Smith, H., Baguley, T., Dunn, A., Stacey, P., and Robson, J. (2018) Forensic voice discrimination: The effect of speech type and background noise on performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology,

Robson J. (2018) Lend Me Your Ears: An Analysis Of How Voice Identification Evidence Is Treated In Four Neighbouring Criminal Justice Systems. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 22 (3), pp. 218-238

Robson, J. (2017) A fair hearing? The use of voice identification parades in criminal investigations in England and Wales. Criminal Law Review,1, pp. 36 – 50

Robson, J. (2016) The veiled lodger - a reflection on the status of R v D. Nottingham Law Journal, 25, pp.105-111.

Robson, J. (2016) The Niqaab and the Myth of Pinocchio’s Nose: Is the Niqaab an Impediment to Fact Finding in an Adversarial Trial? An Analysis of R v D. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 5(2), pp.319-343.

 Edwards, H. and Robson, J. , (2012). Caging the green-eyed monster – restrictions on the use of sexual infidelity as a defence to murder. Nottingham Law Journal, 21, pp. 143-145. ISSN 0965-0660

 Popular/trade press

 Robson, J. and Braber, N. (2023) Perceptions of Accent Prestige Counsel magazine

Robson, J. (2018) Women should be allowed to wear the niqab in court – here’s why. The Conversation [Online]

Robson, J. , (2017). EU wildlife laws should be celebrated – and retained – not treated as red tape. The Conversation. (also published in the I newspaper).

Robson, J., (2017). Is the era of advocacy dead? Lawyer 2B.

Robson, J., (2016). Split the BPTC, watch out for the diversity risks. Lawyer 2B.

Robson, J., (2016). The vital rules which meant a double murderer nearly escaped justice. The Conversation.

Robson, J., (2016). Gove’s nonsense: barristers vs solicitor advocates. Solicitors Journal. ISSN 0038-1152

Robson, J., (2016). All for one or one for all? Solicitors Journal, 160 (10), p. 15. ISSN 0038-1152

Robson, J., (2015). Crown Court: structured mayhem better than complete mayhem. The Times. ISSN 0140-0460

Robson, J., (2015). How Michael Gove is changing the tune on justice reform. The Conversation.

Robson, J., (2015). CPS faces a stark choice. .

Robson, J., (2014). Lawyers need training to protect vulnerable witnesses in sex offence cases. The Conversation

Edwards, H. and Robson, J., 2014. Advocacy series, part 5: Cross examination. .

Robson, J. and Edwards, H., 2014. Advocacy series, part 6: Closing speeches. , pp. 18-19.

Robson, J., 2014. The BPTC checklist. , p. 20.

Robson, J., 2014. Why advocacy standards must be maintained. , pp. 1-3. ISSN 0038-1152

Robson J. and Edwards, H., 2013. Advocacy series part 1: What is advocacy? .

Robson, J. and Edwards, H., 2013. Advocacy series, part 2: Case preparation. .

Robson, J. and Edwards, H., 2013. Advocacy series, part 4: Submissions. .

Robson, J., 2013. Blurring the lines. , p. 17. ISSN 0038-1152

Robson, J. and Edwards, H., 2012. Common cause. , pp. 13-14.

Interdisciplinary approaches to Criminal Litigation and Evidence

Criminal Law

The Practice and Teaching of Advocacy

Judicial decision-making

LPC - Full time, part time and blended - Litigation and advocacy

LLB Evidence

2023, PhD by Publication, De Montfort University. The Judge as Bricoleur: Bricolage in judicial decision-making in the criminal justice system.

2015, LLM in Legal Practice (Distinction), Nottingham Trent University

2011, Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, Nottingham Trent University   

1999, Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent), Inns of Court School of Law

1998, LLB (Hons) 2.1, University of East Anglia

1999, Bar Vocational Course (Very Competent), Inns of Court School of Law

 

 

 

Legal Practice Course

LLB

LLM SQE

Legal Cheek – social media user of the year 2016. Nominated for Emojicaselaw

Solicitors Regulatory Authority – Higher Rights of Audience advisory group

External examiner – Bar Standards Board 2011 – 2020

Case notes editor – International Journal of Evidence and Proof 2015 -2022

Academic Member (KCH Garden Square)

Fellow of the Higher Education Authority

Advocacy Training Council accredited advocacy tutor

Member of the Middle Temple.

 

Conference organisation

Organiser Nottingham Trent University – Advancing Advocacy Conference 23 June 2017

Lead Organiser (with Helen Edwards)  –  International Advocacy Teaching Conference 26 and 27 June 2016

Lead Organiser (with Helen Edwards) – International Advocacy Teaching Conference 27 and 28 June 2014

Conference contributions

Smith, H.M.J., Kelly, S., Braber, N., Robson, J. and Wright, D. (2018) Developing a procedure for eliciting accurate, detailed, and consistent forensic voice descriptions from lay witnesses. British Psychological Society Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference 2018, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, 29-31 August 2018.

Smith, H., Braber, N., Robson, J., Wright, D. and Kelly, S. (2018) Not deep just average: Improving the usability of lay-listener voice descriptions. Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (GSFL2018), University of York, York, 2-5 August 2018.

Robson, J., Braber, N., Smith, H.M.J., Wright, D., Hardy, A. (2018) Accent detection in earwitness identification. Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics (GSFL2018), University of York, York, 2-5 August 2018.

ROBSON, J., 2017. A fair "hearing": voice identification, parades and PACE. In: Advancing Advocacy Conference: Challenges Ahead in Criminal Evidence and Procedure, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 23 June 2017.

ROBSON, J., 2015. The veil and the myth of Pinocchio's nose. In: Human Rights, Law and Religion: Perspectives on the Islamic Face Veil [seminar], Centre for Conflict, Rights and Justice, in collaboration with the NLS Centre for Advocacy, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 30 March 2015, Nottingham.

ROBSON, J., 2014. Criminal advocacy training after Jeffrey. In: International Advocacy Teaching Conference 2014, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 27-28 June 2014, Nottingham.

EDWARDS, H. and ROBSON, J., 2014. How to commit the perfect crime - designing teaching materials which develop storytelling abilities in trainee advocates. In: Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, City University London, London, 22-24 July 2014, London.

EDWARDS, H. and ROBSON, J., 2013. Do pride and prejudice stand in the way of persuasion? Embracing other disciplines for the advancement of advocacy teaching. In: Association of Law Teachers: 48th Annual Conference: All Consuming Legal Education, Nottingham Conference Centre, Nottingham, 24-26 March 2013, Nottingham.

Gavin Ridley - 2nd supervisor with Dr Alwyn Jones and Professor Dave Walsh 

Administering justice via video link: Assessing the impact of the use of video link in immigration bail hearings in the UK in the context of the Compliant Environment.

01/11/2019 ‘Improving Voice Identification Procedures’ Co-investigator (with the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and Nottingham Trent University) on a three year Economic and Social Research Council grant (£866,097) to develop an improved procedure for constructing voice identification parades and investigating the normative assumptions in the criminal justice system.

Developing a procedure for eliciting accurate, detailed, and consistent forensic voice descriptions from lay witnesses – British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants Fund Co-Investigator with Dr H Smith and Dr N Braber.

Fee paid Tribunal Judge – Social Entitlement Chamber

Associate Tenant – KCH Garden Square Barristers