Dr Stephen Colman
Associate Professor of Law
- Phone
- +44 (0)1473 338526
- s.colman@uos.ac.uk
- School/Directorate
- School of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Stephen Colman ORCID
Stephen Colman is the course leader for the law programme. He is an Associate Professor of Law and a non-practising solicitor. Stephen’s professional expertise is in Criminal Law, Evidence and Procedure having spent a year as a defence solicitor in general practice before moving to the Crown Prosecution Service where he was a Senior Crown Prosecutor for over 12 years working on both the magistrates’ court team and the Crown Court team. Stephen was a youth specialist and a Hate Crime lead for a number of years. He was also a temporary District Crown Prosecutor for two years.
Stephen is also the course leader for the postgraduate LLM in Criminal Law and Justice. He is also a link tutor for the Law programme at Rushmore Business School in Mauritius.
In addition to his teaching commitments, Stephen researches and publishes in the areas of Criminal Law, Evidence and Procedure.
Stephen in the module leader for Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Evidence and Administrative Law on the undergraduate programme. He is also the module leader for the Contemporary Criminal Law and Criminal Evidence & Psychology modules on the LLM Criminal Law and Justice. At the Â鶹´«Ã½ Staff Awards 2022, he was nominated for the Outstanding Contribution to Learning Award.
Stephen’s current research concerns the exercise of prosecutorial discretion and the rights of victims to challenge prosecution decision-making. This includes elements of administrative law and victimology. He is also interested in all aspects of the criminal law, evidence and procedure.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles:
- ‘Evaluating Private Prosecutions: Reform or Abolition?’ [2023] Crim LR 689
- ‘A comparison of the implementation of the victims' right to review in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’ [2018] Criminal Law Review 365
- ‘Application for judicial review of the CPS Victims' Right to Review Scheme: R. (Chaudhry) v DPP’ (2017) 81(1) The Journal of Criminal Law 5
- ‘The admissibility of 999 calls and out-of-court statements to police officers as res gestae evidence: Lee Stewart Barnaby v The Director of Public Prosecutions [2015] EWHC 232 (Admin).’ (2015) 79(5) The Journal of Criminal Law 314
- ‘Voice Recognition Evidence: R v Kapikanya [2015] EWCA Crim 1507’ (2016) 80(1) The Journal of Criminal Law 5
Blogs:
- ‘Rights of Review and Vulnerable Defendants’ on the ‘Defending Vulnerability’ Blog (October 2023)
Chapters in Books:
- ‘Crown Prosecution Service Decision-Making’ in Paul Andell & John Pitts (eds) ‘The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Gangs in the UK’ (Palgrave 2023)
Conference Presentations:
- ‘CPS Evidence and Gangs’ at the UK Gang Studies and Criminal Exploitation Conference, Â鶹´«Ã½, Monday 4 September 2023
- ‘Rights of Review and Vulnerable Defendants’ at the Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System Conference, University of Birmingham, 13-14 September 2023
Stephen has developed the relationship between the law programme and the local legal community and has established legal placements with a number of law firms. Stephen has also delivered training to external organisations on aspects of criminal evidence and procedure, such as statement writing and giving evidence at court.
Stephen is the Â鶹´«Ã½ Representative on the Executive Committee of the Suffolk and North Essex Law Society.
Fellowship of Advance HE
Law Society
UK Constitutional Law Association
Clinical Legal Education Organisation