Ryan Murphy is Professor of Legal Education and Pro-Vice Chancellor & Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Swansea University.

Frances Burton is a former Senior Lecturer in Law at Buckingham University, a former Chancery barrister who has for many years taught a wide range of subjects including both much of the knowledge and skills which are the subject of this book, and both on academic and vocational courses at a variety of British and international institutions. As a retired judge she has also had many years' experience of the operation of the rule of law in the UK from the judicial perspective as well as from those of the practitioner and academic.