Martin Salisbury

Lecturer in Law, LLb Year 2 Tutor, Law Clinic Supervisor

School of Law and Social Science

Harris Building, HB260

+44 (0) 1772 89 3680

msalisbury@uclan.ac.uk

Subject Areas: Law

Martin is a qualified solicitor and a former student of UCLan. He is the Course Leader for the blended and part-time law degree and a module leader for several modules. Martin won the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Innovation in Teaching and Learning in 2011 and he was nominated for the UCLan Student Union's 'Lecturer of the Year - Teaching Style' Award.

Qualifications

Martin dealt with a range of predominantly private client work in practice. He specialised in property law and conveyancing. Martin worked for a number of solicitors in the North West region that provided a wide range of services meaning that he has experience in wills and probate, crime, commercial property, matrimonial, litigation, personal injury and employment.

Martin teaches across a wide range of subjects and programmes, including the undergraduate degree courses, GDL, postgraduate Legal Practice Course and professional updating courses.

Martin is the module leader for sports law and has arranged a number of successful talks for students including:

  • Patrick Newall, club solicitor for Fleetwood Town, on 'An in-house career and working in football' in 2013
  • Peter Ridsdale, former chairman of Leeds Utd, Barnsley, Cardiff City and Plymouth Argyle on 'Financial Fair Play and the Salary Cap Management Protocol' in 2012
  • Nick Craig, director of legal affairs at the Football League on 'Sports Law in Football' in 2011
  • Mark Hovell, from the Court of Arbitration(CAS) and George Davies Solicitors LLP,
  • Colin Murdock, former professional footballer with eight clubs including Northern Ireland, Manchester Utd and Preston North End and trainee solicitor on 'CAS and a career in the law' in 2010
  • A ‘Hooliganism & Ground Safety Tour and Discussion ’ at Preston North End FC in 2009

Martin is a supervisor on the School of Law and Social Science free Law Clinic

Martin's qualifications are:

LLb (hons) 2000
Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice 2002
Solicitor of the Supreme Court 2003
Diploma in Land Registration Law and Practice 2008
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 2012
Masters in Education (pending) 2013

Teaching

Legal Practice Course - Property law, commercial property, elderly client, Wills & Probate solicitors accounts, writing and interviewing skills.

Graduate Diploma in Law – Land law

Undergraduate – Land law, sports law, lawyers skills, English legal system, judicial process

Professional skills course for trainee solicitors

Supervisor of free law clinic

Research

Current issues in sport including criminal offences on the sports field, drugs in sport, hooliganism, racism, telecommunications, player contracts and financial fair play.

Land law

Commercial property including legitimate expectation in compulsory purchase

Supervision

Criminal offences on the sports field

Drug use in sport

Legitimate expectation in compulsory purchase

Papers

Presentation at the UCLan Learning Development Unit 2010 ‘Feedback: A Good Practice Guide Conference’.

Organised a ‘Hooliganism & Ground Safety Tour’ at Preston North End FC 2009 for students studying the Sports Law Module.

Sport & the European Union Conference 2009 at Stirling University, Scotland – 'The English Football League and the Homegrown Players Rule'.

Solicitors CPD Course 2009 – ‘A Conveyancer’s Guide to Boundary Disputes & Adverse Possession’.

Memberships

Solicitor of Supreme Court

Member of Law Society of England and Wales

Member of the British Association for Sport and the Law

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Conferences

Speaker at:
Presentation at the UCLAN Learning Development Unit 2010 ‘Feedback: A Good Practice Guide Conference’
Organised a ‘Hooliganism & Ground Safety Tour’ at Preston North End FC 2009 for students studying the Sports Law Module
Sport & the European Union Conference 2009 at Stirling University, Scotland – “The English Football League and the Homegrown Players Rule”
Solicitors CPD Course 2009 – ‘A Conveyancer’s Guide to Boundary Disputes & Adverse Possession’

Attended:
Football & the Law Conference 2012