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Mrs Diana MacCarthy

Job: Lecturer

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester De Montfort Law School

Address: Â鶹ƵµÀ, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: N/A

E: diana.maccarthy@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Diana graduated with BA (Hons) Law and initially went on to qualify as a Fellow of CILEX. She later completed her LPC and spent over 20 years in practice at top firms such as Eversheds and Shoosmiths dealing predominantly with land acquisition and property matters. During this time, Diana qualified as a solicitor, where she remains on the roll.

Diana joined DMU in 2022, having taught at the Open University for 8 years and has taught on both the Legal Practice Course and the LLB. Diana teaches across all three years on the LLB including Criminal Law (for which she is module lead), English Legal Systems, Land Law, Interprofessional legal skills and Advanced Criminal Law.

Diana also holds her LLM, PgCert and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Diana is the school liaison lead and is passionate about forging strong links with local schools and academies and increasing the profile of the university. Diana has helped to organise the DMU inspire days, DMU future fayre, Teetech, Law lab and a mock trial for current and prospective students. Diana is also vice chair of the recruitment and marketing committee.

Research interests/expertise

Homelessness and mental health

Areas of teaching

Criminal Law, Land Law, English Legal Systems, Advanced Criminal Law, Inter Professional Legal Skills and Professional Practice Preparation

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Law, F.CILEX, PgCert, LLM, Legal practice course

Courses taught

Criminal Law, Land Law, English Legal Systems, Advanced Criminal Law, Inter Professional Legal Skills and Professional Practice Preparation, LPC Land law

Membership of professional associations and societies

The Law Society, Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Professional licences and certificates

Non-practicing solicitor

Projects

School tasking project

Conference attendance

Celebrating excellence in law teaching - June 2024

Consultancy work

I have previously undertaken exam writing, marking and teaching with CILEX, student mentoring with Barbri and online tutoring and tutor monitoring with the Open University.

Current research students

Mock Viva examiner for Cynthia Ojukwu November 2024

ORCID number

0009-0004-6614-6114