Simon Cooper

Director of Admissions; Senior Lecturer

• T: 0161 295 7079
• E: s.cooper@salford.ac.uk
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Wednesday 10.00am – 1.00pm

After completing his Masters in 1989 at Leeds University, Simon moved to Newcastle University where he taught Evidence and Criminal Law for 14 years. He was also Associate Director of the International Office at Newcastle University with particular responsibility for South East Asia and the Indian sub-continent.

After a period of time working in practice with trading standards, Simon returned to the HE sector and joined Salford Law School in 2006 as one of the School’s original members of staff and its first Director of Admissions. Simon is one of the UK’s leading commentators on Road Traffic Law and produces the National Police Improvement Agency approved text on Road Policing. He is also co-author of the leading text “Elliott & Woods Cases and Materials on Criminal Law”.

LLB – Module leader Criminal Law

LLB – Module leader Evidence

Consenting to injury for purposes of entertainment

Road Traffic Law – especially issues of causation

• LLB (Hons)
• MA (Legal Studies)

Elliot & Woods Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (OUP 2010)

Road Traffic Law (OUP 2010)

2012 ‘Culpable Driving and Issues of Causation’ [2012] Journal of Criminal Law 421 - 427

2012 ‘Entertainment – the painful process of rethinking consent’ with M James, [2012] Criminal Law Review 188-199

2010 ‘Mechanical Law Enforcement: Speeding and Camera Technology’ Journal of Criminal Law

2009 ‘Appeals, Referrals and Substantial Injustice’ [2009] Criminal Law Review 152 - 165