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Hobby, Catherine

Contact details

Position: Senior Lecturer

Location: DH 027/028, Duncan House

Telephone: 020 8223 2101

Email: c.o.hobby@uel.ac.uk

Contact address:

School of Law and Social Sciences (LSS)
University of East London
Duncan House
High Street
Stratford
London E15 2JB

Brief biography

Catherine Hobby has taught at UEL for over seventeen years and is, at present, employed part-time. Before becoming a full-time member of staff in 1993 she was a consultant and helped establish the charity Public Concern at Work. She works in the areas of Employment Law, Industrial Relations, Public Law and Human Rights. She currently teaches modules on The English Legal System and Human Rights on the LLB degree course.

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Activities and responsibilities

  • Module leader of Human Rights and the English Legal System

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Areas of Interest/Summary of Expertise

Employment law and Industrial relations; with particular reference to Whistleblowing and Human Rights.

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Teaching: Programmes

  • LLB Law
  • BA Criminology & Criminal Justice
  • BA Combined Studies

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Teaching: Modules

  • The Legal System
  • Human Rights

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Current research and publications

  • Catherine is currently undertaking research in the area of Whistleblowing.

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Research archive

Her publications include:

  1. Atkins's Encyclopaedia of Court Forms in Civil Proceedings, Volume 31: Personal Rights, 2 nd edition, Butterworths, 1998.
  2. 'Equitable Principles of Confidentiality & Whistleblowing' in Feminist Perspectives on Equity and Trusts, Scott-Hunt & Lim (eds.), Cavendish, 2001.
  3. 'Whistlebowing and the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998', Institute of Employment Rights, 2002.
  4. ‘Public Interest Whistleblowing: 12 years of the Public Interest Disclosure Act’, Institute of Employment Rights 2010.

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Other scholarly activities

  • Admitted as a solicitor in 1991 and a member of the Law Society.
  • Member of Liberty, the Industrial Law Society and the Institute of Employment Rights.

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