Andrew John Ashworth,

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

, KC (Hon), FBA (born 11 October 1947) was the

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at the

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from 1997 to 2013, a Fellow of

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, and was formerly Chairman of the Sentencing Advisory Panel before it was abolished in 2010. He gained his LLB in 1968 from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

, a BCL from Oxford in 1970, and a PhD in 1973 from the

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.See He attended

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in West Yorkshire. Ashworth was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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Publishing

He has written extensively on English criminal law, and was for some several years the Editor of the

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Teaching

Ashworth teaches courses on the

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course. He has also supervised research students on Oxford's various legal research courses.

Views

Ashworth through his works has shown much resentment towards the approach of the

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to basic principles of criminal justice. He advocates respect for the presumption of innocence and has written a considerable number of articles on different areas of law of evidence.

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Andrew Ashworth
at Oxford Law 1947 births Living people English legal scholars English non-fiction writers Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford People from Rochdale Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Vinerian Professors of English Law English male non-fiction writers Honorary King's Counsel Alumni of the University of Manchester Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of Oxford {{UK-law-bio-stub