Staff Directory - Ms Carrie de Silva | Harper Adams University

Teaching Duties

Law and Taxation on undergraduate and post-graduate Land Management courses.
Equine Law Seminars at Harper Adams and, off site, for the British Horse Society, the insurance industry and other commercial clients.

Research Interests

Equine law.
Occupier's liability, particularly on rural estates and farms - Farmers Club scholarship study.
Teaching law to non-lawyers.
Work based learning.
Health and safety / corporate manslaughter - particularly on rural estates and farms.
History of agricultural education and research.

Professional Memberships

Association of Law Teachers
Agricultural Law Association
Association of Tax Technicians
British Agricultural History Society
Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (academic member)
Women's History Network
British Federation of Women Graduates

Academic Department: Land, Farm and Agribusiness Management

Tel: +44 (0)1952 815304

Fax: +44 (0)1952 814783

Office: AC7 Aspire Centre

Research profile: ORCID

Publications

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Other publications

de Silva, Carrie (2019) A Short History of Agricultural Education and Research in the UK: some key events, institutions and publications from the 16th to the 21st centuries
de Silva, Carrie (2019) Negligent Valuation Casebook: key cases from the 19th to 21st centuries.
de Silva, Carrie (2019) Equine Law: an introduction to aspects of law and taxation relating to horse, rider and the small equine business.
de Silva, Carrie (2018) Negligent valuation de-constructed: What is negligence at law? What are the practicalities in helping to avoid a claim? Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal and Valuation 7
de Silva, Carrie (2018) Before and after Mirvahedy v Henley: the history, controversy and practice of strict liability. Contempory Issues in Law 14, iss 3, pp167-190
de Silva, Carrie (2016) Health and Safety Casebook: key Cases from 1837 to 2016 with particular reference to the land-based industries.
de Silva, Carrie (2014) Educating the Chartered Surveyor: looking back to look forward. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 6
de Silva, Carrie (2012) Health and Safety - Teaching Law, Educating for Prevention. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 4
de Silva, Carrie (2010) Livestock and public access: why does strict liability exist as a legal principle, what is ‘reasonable’ care and should livestock keepers be concerned about recent court decisions? Journal of Farm Management 14

Additional Information

Publications, Conferences and Knowledge Transfer

Educating the Chartered Surveyor : looking back to look forward. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, Vol. 6, 3, 2014, pp250-270.

‘It wasn’t my fault’: primary, vicarious and strict liability for third party actions. Farm Law, no. 209, June 2014, pp17-20.

Surveying Education: Looking Back to Look Forward. RICS COBRA Conference September 2013, New Delhi, India.

A Short History of Agricultural Education, Agricultural Law Association Bulletin, 3, Summer 2013, pp16-18.
July 2013 - 'The Development of Surveying and Land Agency Education.' RICS Land Journal.
June 2013 - A Short History of Agricultural Education and Research, poster presentation at RICS National Rural Conference, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester.
May 2013 - 'The History of Agricultural Education.' Agricultural Law Association Bulletin.
March 2013 - 'Developing Law Assessments for Non-Law Post-graduates.' Association of Law Teachers' Annual Conference, Nottingham Trent University.
September – January 2013 - a series of 12 presentations for the RICS : Health and Safety for Rural Land Agents with an Update on Corporate Manslaughter.
September 2012 - ‘Case Studies in the Teaching of Health and Safety Law.’ RICS COBRA Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
August 2012 - A Short History of Agricultural Education and Research in the UK : some key events, institutions and publications from the 16^th to the 21^st centuries. Newport : Harper Adams University College.
July 2012 - ‘Health and Safety - Teaching Law, Educating for Prevention.’ International Journal of Law in the Built Environment. [peer reviewed and accepted, unsure of issue]
June 2012 - ‘The Ties that bind : recent litigation in family business empires and lessons for professional advisers.’ RICS National Rural Conference, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
May 2012 - Farm accidents and criminal charges - a review of the law following a recent corporate manslaughter conviction.’ Agricultural Law Association Bulletin.
April 2012 - ‘Teaching Law That Students Don’t Want to Hear.’ Association of Law Teachers’ Annual Conference, University of Oxford.
March 2012 - Health and Safety Casebook : key cases from 1837 to 2012, with particular reference to the land-based industries. Newport : Harper Adams University College.
January 2012 (update) - Equine Law : an introduction to aspects of law and taxation which impact horse, rider and the small equine business. Newport : Harper Adams University College.
June 2011 - ‘Personal injury on farm and estate - criminal and civil liabilities, risk management and the expert witness.’ RICS National Rural Conference, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester.
May 2011 - ‘Loss of Expert Witness Immunity - Jones v Kaney [2011].’ Agricultural Law Association Bulletin.
May 2011, May and July 2010 - Health and Safety for Placement Managers - Seminars at University of Sheffield, University of London and Aston University, Birmingham for ASET.
April 2010 - RICS ROOTS Rural Conference, Plumpton College, East Sussex - ‘Livestock and public access : What is the law? Can there be liability without fault? Should livestock keepers be concerned about recent court decisions?’
April 2010 - REALM 20 Rural Update, Harper Adams - ‘Agricultural Property Relief and the Atkinson v Commissioners for HMRC [2010] case.’
May, July and November 2010 - Health and Safety for Placement Managers - Seminars at University of London. Manchester Metropolitan University and Aston University, Birmingham for ASET.
April 2010 - RICS ROOTS Rural Conference, Plumpton College, East Sussex - ‘Livestock and public access : What is the law? Can there be liability without Fault? Should livestock keepers be concerned about recent court decisions?’
April 2010 - REALM 20 Rural Update, Harper Adams - ‘Agricultural Property Relief and the Atkinson v Commissioners for HMRC [2010] case.’
March 2010 - Health and Safety for Placement Managers - joint author of ASET publication. Sheffield : ASET.
Autumn 2009 - ‘Farm management and rights of way.’ Agricultural Law Association Bulletin 58.
Also presented at the Agricultural Law Association Annual Conference - November 2009.
September 2009 - ‘Unpaid work experience and the national minimum wage legislation’. ASET Annual Conference, University of Lancaster.
August 2009 - member of working party which produced UCEA Health and Safety Guidance for the Placement of Higher Education Students.
March 2009 - RICS ROOTS Rural Conference, Cambridge - ‘Workplace deaths in agriculture - incidence and culpability : legal exposure and limitation.
2009 ‘Compensation Culture: Coming or Going? A Review of Civil and Criminal Liability for Personal Injury in the Light of the Compensation Act 2006 and a Number of Recent Court Decisions’ in Sabitha, A. ed. Personal Injury Claims : compensation doctrines. Hyderabad : Icfai University Press.
March 2008 - RICS ROOTS Rural Conference, Oxford - ‘Compensation Culture : coming or going?’
February 2008 - refereed paper delivered at BEAR 2008 (International Conference in Building Education and Research),Kandalama, Sri Lanka - conference managed by the University of Salford Research Institute for the Built and Human Environment (BuHu) : ‘Teaching Law to Non-Lawyers : law in land and property education’ (with Charles Cowap).