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Thomas Martin Partington, (born 5 March 1944) is a British retired legal scholar and
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. He is
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professor of Law at the
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.'PARTINGTON, Prof. (Thomas) Martin', ''
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accessed 5 Aug 2017
/ref> He has over 45 years' experience as a law teacher, researcher, and writer on a wide variety of legal subjects (including
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,
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, and the
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), a (part-time)
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, legal policy adviser, and a law reformer. He taught at the Universities of Bristol,
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, the
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, and
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. He was associated with a wide range of bodies and institutions including, at different stages in his career, and for different lengths of time: the Hillfields Advice Centre in
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; the Legal Action Group; the Training Committee of the Institute of Housing; the Management Committees of Citizens' Advice Bureaux in Coventry,
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, and
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; the Education Committee of the Law Society; the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Aid; the Independent Tribunal Service for Social Security Appeal Tribunals; the
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(both the main Board and its Tribunals Committee); the Council on Tribunals; the
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(and its sub-committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution); the Committee of Heads of University
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s; the Socio-Legal Studies Association; and the Socio-Legal Research Users' Forum. For a number of years he was Training Adviser to the then President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals and also sat as a part-time Social Security Tribunals chairman. He acted as an expert adviser to the
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, examining Alternatives to Litigation in Disputes between the Individual and the State. In May 2000, he was appointed expert consultee to the Review of Tribunals, set up by the
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and chaired by Sir Andrew Leggatt. He was a member of the Gaymer Review of Industrial Tribunals, 2002. From 2001 to 2005, he was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales; he was retained as a Special Consultant to the Commission from 2006 to 2008. He is currently a member of the Executive Board of
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and of the
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working party on housing dispute resolution. He chairs the Board of the Dispute Service, a company under contract with government to provide tenancy deposit protection and dispute resolution.


Honours

In 2002 he was appointed
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; in 2006 he was elected as a Bencher of
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; in 2008 he was appointed QC (Hon). In 2015 he was elected a
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of the
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, and awarded the Socio-Legal Studies Association's prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community.


Bibliography

* Landlord and Tenant:  Cases, Materials and Text (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975; 2nd ed. 1980.) * Taxing the Brain Drain,  Vol.I.  "A Proposal" (ed. with J Bhagwati) (North-Holland, 1976) * Welfare Rights: A Bibliography on Law and the Poor, 1970– 1975 (Frances Pinter, 1976) (with John Hull and Susan Knight) * Claim in Time: A Study of the Time-Limit Rules for Claiming Social Security Benefits (Frances Pinter, 1978) (2nd ed., published by Legal Action Group, 1989; 3rd ed. 1994) * Welfare Law and Policy (ed. with Jeffrey Jowell) (Frances Pinter, 1979) * Quiet Enjoyment (LAG, 1980) (1st ed. 1980 – 6th ed. 2002) (with Andrew Arden QC) * Housing Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 1983) (with Andrew Arden) * Bibliography of Social Security Law (Mansell, 1986) (with P. O'Higgins) * Housing Law, Cases Materials and Commentary (1991, Sweet and Maxwell) (with J Hill) * Housing Law (2nd ed., 1994, Sweet and Maxwell) (further updating releases annually) (with A Arden QC and C Hunter) * Council on Tribunals Annual Reports: Annotated Index, 1959–1993 (1st ed. 1994, University of Bristol) (with M Chapman, and M Fletcher) * Administrative Justice: A Working Bibliography (1st ed, 1996, University of Bristol) (with M Chapman, M Harris, and M Fletcher) * “United Kingdom” in International Encyclopedia of Laws; Social Security (Kluwer Law International, 1st ed. 1998 – 4th ed. April 2012) * Administrative Justice in the 21st Century (Hart Publishers, 1999) (with Michael Harris) * English Legal System: An Introduction to the (1st ed., Oxford UP, 2000 – 11th ed., Oxford UP, 2016) * Law in the real World: the Nuffield Inquiry on Empirical Research on Law (London, Nuffield Foundation, 2006) (''with
Hazel Genn Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE, KC (Hon), FBA (born 1949) is a leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world, and is a former Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Stu ...
and Sally Wheeler)'' * Law's Reality: Case Studies in Empirical Research on Law (Editor) (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) ''Special Research Issue of the Journal of Law and Society'' * Halsbury’s Laws of England ''Legal aid'' Volume 65 (Consulting Editor) (2008) * Halsbury’ Laws of England ''Courts and Tribunals'' Volume 24 (Joint Consulting Editor) (2010) * ''The Development of Professional Legal and Judicial Education in Qatar'', (2012) Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre, Doha) (with Chloë Smythe) * ''Developing Professional Legal Education in Qatar'', (Pre-consultation paper and questionnaire) (2013) Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre, Doha) (with Chloë Smythe)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Partington, Martin Academics of the University of Bristol Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Honorary King's Counsel Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Living people Law commissions British legal scholars 1944 births British barristers