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Collaborations:
- University of Warwick
- Maastricht University
- JUSTICE
- the Open Society Justice Initiative
- Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
Research staff:
- criminal justice
- criminal procedure
- police powers
- the legal profession
- legal aid and access to justice
- procedural rights and the EU and ECHR
- and global perspectives on access to justice in criminal proceedings.
Teaching staff:
- Qualifications:BTech LLM Solicitor
- Position:Professor
- Department:FBL - Law
- Telephone:+4411732 82899
- Email:Ed.Cape@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
Ed Cape is a former practising solicitor who specialises in criminal justice.
Area of expertise
Ed Cape is an internationally known researcher in the field of criminal justice, and is also the author of a range of practitioner texts. His recent research projects include two examining effective criminal defence in a range of European countries, and a third on effective criminal defence in Latin America. In 2014 he published the results of an empirical study of the rights of suspects in police custody in four European jurisdictions, and recently published a study of pre-trial detention decision-making in England and Wales. Ed wrote Improving Pretrial Justice: The Roles of Lawyers and Paralegals for the Open Society Foundations, and a handbook on early access to legal aid for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Publications for legal practitioners include Defending Suspects at Police Stations, which is currently in its 6th edition, and Ed contributes to Blackstone's Criminal Practice, and writes case commentaries for Criminal Law Review.
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