Professor David Ormerod

Call: 2002*

David Ormerod was appointed Law Commissioner for Criminal Law and Evidence on the 1st September 2010. Before this he was a practising member of 18 Red Lion Court where he has been instructed for the defence and for the Serious Fraud Office and the Revenue and Customs Prosecution Office in serious fraud cases.

Publications   He is Professor of Criminal Justice at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters, and several hundred case commentaries. His most recent publications include:

• Blackstone’s Criminal Practice 2010 (General Editor with the Rt Hon Lord Justice Hooper) [Link]
• Smith and Hogan on Criminal Law (12th edn 2008) [Link] 
• Smith and Hogan Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (10th edn 2009)
• Fraud: Criminal law and Procedure (2008, OUP) with Clare Montgomery QC  [Link]
• “The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007” [2008] Crim LR (Aug) with R D Taylor
• “Criminalising Lying” [2007] Crim LR 19  
• Smith’s Law of Theft (9th edn 2007) with David Williams QC [Link] 
• “The Serious Crime Act 2007, Part 2” [2009] Crim LR 389 with Rudi Fortson 
• “Acts and Omissions – a Distinction Without a Defence?” [2009] Cambrian Law Review with Tracey Elliott 
• “The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007” [2008] Crim LR with R D Taylor 
• ‘Making Sense of Mens Rea in Statutory Conspiracies’ (2006) CLP
• Smith and Hogan Cases and Materials on Criminal Law (9th edn 2005) [Link] 

Other positions He holds a number of editorial positions. He is the Cases Editor of the Criminal Law Review and serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Evidence & Proof, the Covert Policing Review and the Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling.

He is a member of the Education Committee of the Criminal Bar Association. He sits on the Executive Council of JUSTICE. He is a member of the Criminal Justice Council.

Lectures He lectures regularly to the profession and to various prosecution agencies – CPS, SFO, RCPO. Recent lectures included:

• "Recent Developments in Criminal Law and Evidence" lecture for LCCSA October 15th 2009
• "Developments in Fraud" lecture to Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office Manchester Sept 30th 2009.
• "Recent Developments in Crime" lecture to Her Majesty’s Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate in London on 2nd October 2009.

In addition, he lectures regularly for the Judicial Studies Board on Criminal Law, Serious Sexual Offences and the Law of Evidence.  He recently assisted the JSB in updating the Judicial Studies Board Specimen Directions. He has acted as a consultant to the Law Commission, Home Office and the Commonwealth Secretariat.