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    Professor Carrie de Silva

    Ll.B (Hons) MA PGCE FHEA

    Visiting Academic Professor - Real Estate Practice law

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    Teaching Duties

    • various aspects of law on postgraduate land and property management courses
    • law on livestock auctioneers' programme
    • short courses and CPD in the property, estate management and equestrian sectors

    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
    • history of women in the professions

    Professional Memberships

    • British Agricultural History Society
    • Central Association of Agricultural Valuers (academic member)
    • Women's History Network
    • British Federation of Women Graduates
    • Worshipful Company of Tax Advisers

    Academic Department: Harper Adams Business School

    Tel: +44 (0)1952 815304

    Fax: +44 (0)1952 814783

    Research profile: ORCID

    Publications

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    Other publications

    • de Silva, Carrie (2024) . Marjorie Powell (1893-1939), the first women to be admitted to Lincoln’s Inn; academic economist, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    • de Silva, Carrie (2022) Irene Barclay (1894-1989): the extraordinary career of the first woman chartered surveyor, and the development of the housing management profession. Women's History Reivew 28:1-5
    • de Silva, Carrie (2021) ‘Not my employee, not my liability’: a review of the law of vicarious liability’, its April 2020 Supreme Court airing, and its relevance to the equestrian industry and other small businesses. Denning Law Journal 32(1): 25-49
    • de Silva, Carrie (2021) Mary ‘Pollie’ Hirst Simpson (1874-1947), the first agricultural adviser to the Women’s Institute Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    • 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) 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 (2018) Irene Barclay (1894-1989), the first woman to qualify as a chartered surveyor in the United Kingdom Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    • de Silva, Carrie (2016) Mary Glynne (1897-1991), a crop research scientist at Rothamsted Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    • 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

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    You can contact Professor Carrie de Silva if you would like to discuss any of the following course modules:

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