Adrian Keane

LL.B, Barrister

Email: a.n.keane@city.ac.uk

Professor Adrian Keane joined The City Law School (formerly the Inns of Court School of Law) in 1984. He teaches evidence at both undergraduate and graduate level and Advocacy on the Bar Professional Training Course.

He was called to the Bar in 1978. In addition to his experience in practice at the Bar and at the School, he has been Dean of the Inns of Court School of Law, a visiting lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford, and a guest lecturer at LSE. His public appointments have involved him in work for the Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong, and have included membership of the Steering Committee for the CNAA-TEED Development Project on Competences, Assessment and Education in Undergraduate Law Courses, membership of the Bar Council Education and Training Working Party, and sitting in a judicial capacity as a Chairman of Employment Tribunals (part-time). He was also a member of the Lord Chancellor's Standing Conference on Legal Education.

Professor Keane has an extensive research and publication record. He is the author of: numerous learned articles and of The Modern Law of Evidence, OUP (9th edn, 2012), a work that has been cited with approval within the jurisdiction, by the Privy Council and the House of Lords, by a variety of appellate courts in jurisdictions overseas, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal (Rwanda). He also scripted 'Do you want to hear a story?' and 'There are two sides to every story', advocacy skills videos. He is a co-author of two works for practitioners, Blackstone's Criminal Practice, OUP (22nd edn, 2011) and Blackstone's Civil Practice, OUP (12th edn, 2011) and co-scripted 'Do I have to talk to the client?',a conference skills video.

Professor Keane has spoken at numerous conferences at home and overseas, principally on the subjects of evidence and professional skills training and assessment. He has been interviewed for BBC Radio 4's Law in Action, has written articles of topical interest for The Times, and developed the idea for the first Worldwide Advocacy Conference in 1998. In 2011, he was involved in advising the Chinese Government on reform of its laws of evidence as part of the research team based at Renmin University, Beijing.