Dr Kevin Williams
PhD, LLB (Hons), LLM, ACII, Cert Ed
Subjects taught
Torts, employment law
Contact details
Telephone: 0114 225 2593
E-mail: k.m.williams@shu.ac.uk
Profile
Reader in law
Research interests
- the impact of and connections between liability rules and 'real world' behaviour, particularly in the context of medical rescue duties
- business transfers and job security
- defamation and freedom of speech
Recent research
- 'Compensating Tragedy' (2007) 157 New Law Journal 1714.
- 'Comprehending Disclosure: Must Patients Understand the Risks They Run?' (2000) 4 Medical Law International 97
- 'Defaming Politicians: the not so common law' (2000) 63 Modern Law Review 748
- 'Medical Rescue: A Wake-up Call for the Emergency Services' (2001) 9 Tort Law Review 23
- 'Medical Samaritans: Is there a Duty to Treat?' (2001) 21 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 393
- 'Doctors as Good Samaritans: Some Empirical Evidence concerning Emergency Medical Treatment in Britain' (2003) 30 Journal of Law and Society 258
- 'Collective Rights: Recognition, Representation and Industrial Action'. Co-author Graeme Lockwood. Chapter 6 in The Handbook of Employment Relations Law (editor, B. Towers, Kogan Page Publishing, 2003)
- 'Road Accidents and the Emergency Services: The Law and Practice of Professional Rescue
- Revisited' (2003) 19 Professional Negligence 517
- 'Revising Liability for Child Abuse in Britain' (2004) 12 Tort Law Review 63
- 'State of Fear: Britain's "compensation culture" Reviewed' (2005) 25 Legal Studies 499
- 'Abusing Parents and Children' (2005) 21 Professional Negligence 196
- Review of 'Altruism in Private Law' (2006) 69 Modern Law review 285
- 'Politics, the Media and Refining the Notion of Fault: Section 1 of the Compensation Act 2006' [2006] Journal of Personal Injury Law 347.
- 'Transferring Employment between the Public and Private Sectors in the UK: Acquired Rights and Revising TUPE' (2007) vol 23, pp 285-304, Co-author Nigel Johnson
- (2007) International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations (forthcoming)
- 'Litigation against English NHS Ambulance Services and the Rule in Kent v Griffiths' (2007) Medical Law Review, vol 15, pp153-175
- 'Medical Students' perceptions of informed consent: legal reflections on clinical education' (2007) 23 Professional Negligence pp 151-164 (co-authors Heywood and Macaskill)
