Eva Zofia Lomnicka (born 17 May 1951) is a Professor of Law at
King's College London School of Law. She contributes to a number of leading texts and is an expert on the law of consumer credit and financial services law more generally. She has been appointed Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa in 2020 and retired as a Barrister from Lincoln’s Inn.
Biography
Eva has graduated her
Bachelor of Laws and
Master of Arts degrees at
Cambridge University and qualified as a barrister.
Her early work focused on discrimination, but soon moved into the fields of consumer credit, as the
Consumer Credit Act 1974
The Consumer Credit Act 1974c 39 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that significantly reformed the law relating to consumer credit within the United Kingdom.
Prior to the Consumer Credit Act, legislation covering consumer credi ...
was passed. The subsequent overhaul of consumer credit laws implemented in the
Consumer Credit Act 2006 was prepared by the then
Department of Trade and Industry’s ''‘Consumer Credit Steering Group’'' in which Eva was involved.
In 1975, she joined King's College London as a lecturer and became professor in 1993.
On 21 January 2020 she was awarded the title of
Queen’s Counsel Honoris Causa, one of ten individuals to receive the award in the year.
Eva is a
Bencher of the
Middle Temple and was
practising
barrister
A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions. Barristers mostly specialise in courtroom advocacy and litigation. Their tasks include taking cases in superior courts and tribunals, drafting legal pleadings, researching law and ...
with an advisory practice in consumer credit and financial services regulation at
Lincoln's Inn
The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn is one of the four Inns of Court in London to which barristers of England and Wales belong and where they are called to the Bar. (The other three are Middle Temple, Inner Temple and Gray's Inn.) Lincoln ...
Chambers.
Publications
;Articles
*'The future of consumer credit regulation: a chance to rationalise sanctions for breaches of financial services regulatory regimes?' (2013) 34(1) Company Lawyer 13
*'The preventing and controlling the manipulation of financial markets: Towards a Definition of 'Market Manipulation'' (2001) 8(4) Journal of Financial Crime 297
*'"Knowingly concerned"? Participatory liability to regulators' (2000) 21(4) Company Lawyer 120
*'Unfair credit relationships: five years on' (2012) 8 Journal of Business Law 713
*'Education and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975'
*'The enforcement of anti-discrimination law'
;Books
*''The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing'' (2012) with H Beale, M Bridge and L Gullifer
*''Modern Banking Law'' (5th edn OUP 2009) with EP Ellinger and C Hare
*''The Law of Personal Property Security'' (2007) with H Beale, M Bridge and L Gullifer
;Practitioner guides
*''Palmer's Company Law'' (25th edn Sweet & Maxwell 1991)
*''Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Law'' (Sweet & Maxwell, 1987)
*''Encyclopaedia of Consumer Credit Law'' (Sweet & Maxwell 1975)
*''The Financial Services and Markets Act: An Annotated Guide'' (Sweet & Maxwell 2002)
*Journal of Business Law (editor, Financial Services section) (Sweet & Maxwell)
See also
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UK company law
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UK banking law
United Kingdom banking law refers to banking law in the United Kingdom, to control the activities of banks.
History
The Bank of England was originally established as a corporation with private shareholders under the Bank of England Act 1694, to r ...
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English contract law
English contract law is the body of law that regulates legally binding agreements in England and Wales. With its roots in the lex mercatoria and the activism of the judiciary during the industrial revolution, it shares a heritage with countries ...
External links
Professor Eva Lomnicka, King's College LondonEva Lomnica, Open Library
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lomnica, Eva
Academics of King's College London
Living people
1951 births
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
British legal scholars