Bethany Brown is a lecturer at the Nottingham Law School and a non-practising solicitor. She teaches across a number of courses and modules including the LLB, LPC, SQE and LLM. She worked as a family and child protection solicitor prior to moving into education in 2021. Dr Amy Sixsmith is an Associate Professor in Law and undergraduate LL.B. programme leader at the University of Sunderland. She has taught on undergraduate and postgraduate law courses for 12 years, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She was one of the academic leads involved in transforming the University’s LL.B. programme to comply with the specification of the Solicitors Qualifying Examination, and has taught English Legal System to both law and non-law students. Dr David Sixsmith is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in Law and the programme leader for the Legal Practice Course and postgraduate SQE provision at the University of Sunderland. He is a non-practising solicitor and has previously been a partner at a high street firm. He is heavily involved with developing profession-facing legal education and teaches Dispute Resolution and Wills & Administration of Estates.
These written skills books are excellent. I only got them just before my exams but still found them incredibly useful. Each question includes both strong and weak sample answers, with clear explanations of why they work—or don’t. I just wish I’d had more time with them! I passed, and I wholeheartedly recommend them.