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Professor David Ormerod KC

Co-Director of the UCL Judicial Institute

David Ormerod has expertise in all aspects of the criminal justice process. He is a practising barrister and Deputy High Court Judge.

He is the Editor in Chief of Blackstone's Criminal Practice and the Criminal Law Review and was consultant Editor for Halsbury's Laws 2020 on Criminal Law.

He teaches regularly for the Judicial College and is one of the editors of the Crown Court Compendium (providing guidance on jury directions in criminal cases). He has served as a consultant to the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office. He was formally the Criminal Law Commissioner for England and Wales.