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Mr Dominic De Saulles
Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies and Reader
- DesaullesDJ@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 29208 76505
- Law Building, Room 3.10, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX
Overview
Dominic De Saulles B.D. (Wales), Solicitor Advocate, is a Reader at Cardiff School of Law and Politics and a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Law Jersey. He is the School's Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies.
Dominic was admitted as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives in 1991 and as a Solicitor in 1996. He holds the Higher Courts (Civil Proceedings) Qualification and a Post-Graduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Dominic is currently a member of the BPTC team. He has taught commercial litigation (BPTC and LPC), civil litigation (BPTC and LPC ), and advocacy (LPC), employers' liability (BPTC) and personal injury (LPC), professional conduct (LPC) and ethics (BPTC). Dominic is a supervisor for the LLM in Legal Practice.
Dominic was a litigation manager at Phillips and Buck (now Eversheds), an associate at Burrough & Co, a civil litigation partner at Le Brasseurs and then a consultant in Newport. He has extensive experience of commercial litigation and personal injury work. Dominic was an external examiner for the Higher Courts Qualification and for the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test. He has taught on the Professional Skills Course and Management Stage I Course. Dominic has writen Personal Injury Law Manuals for CILEX and edited these works from the Claimant and Defendant perspectives. He has written for APIL’s PI Focus and for the Journal of Personal Injury Law and written material for the new Higher Apprenticeship in Law.
Dominic's blog on Law in General and on Personal Injury
Dominic's book Reforming Civil Procedure: The Hardest Path was published by Hart Publishing in May 2019 [here]. The book looks at changes in Anglo-American Civil Procedure in the Twentieth Century and examines the reasons for success and failure.
Publication
2023
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Guernsey Police Station Advice and the Defence Case Statements Ordinance 2023. Guernsey: Law Guernsey LBG.
- De Saulles, D. 2023. Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Guernsey Professional Conduct, Ethics and related issues (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Jersey Criminal Procedure 13th Edition (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Jersey Legal Professional Ethics (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Jersey Civil Procedure 13th edition (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
2022
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2022. Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2223). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2022. Guernsey Professional Conduct, Ethics and related issues (2223). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. 2022. Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2223). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
2021
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Jersey Criminal Procedure 12th Edition (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Guernsey Professional Conduct, Ethics and related issues (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Jersey Civil Procedure 12th edition (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Jersey Legal Professional Ethics (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
2019
- De Saulles, D. 2019. Reforming Civil Procedure, The Hardest Path. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Books
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Guernsey Police Station Advice and the Defence Case Statements Ordinance 2023. Guernsey: Law Guernsey LBG.
- De Saulles, D. 2023. Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Guernsey Professional Conduct, Ethics and related issues (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Jersey Criminal Procedure 13th Edition (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Jersey Legal Professional Ethics (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2023. Jersey Civil Procedure 13th edition (2324). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2022. Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2223). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2022. Guernsey Professional Conduct, Ethics and related issues (2223). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. 2022. Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2223). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Jersey Criminal Procedure 12th Edition (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Guernsey Professional Conduct, Ethics and related issues (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Jersey Civil Procedure 12th edition (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. ed. 2021. Jersey Legal Professional Ethics (2122). Jersey: Institute of Law Jersey.
- De Saulles, D. 2019. Reforming Civil Procedure, The Hardest Path. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
Research
Dominic's book Reforming Civil Procedure: The Hardest Path was published by Hart Publishing in May 2019 [here]. The book looks at changes in Anglo-American Civil Procedure in the Twentieth Century and examines the reasons for success and failure.
Dominic is the general editor of the following works for the Institute of Law Jersey:
Guernsey Civil Practice and Procedure (2020.21, 2021.22, 2022.23, 2023.24)
Guernsey Criminal Practice and Procedure (2020.21, 2021.22, 2022.23, 2023.24)
Guernsey Professional Conduct and Ethics (2020.21, 2021.22, 2022.23, 2023.24)
Jersey Civil Procedure (2020.21, 2023.24)
Jersey Criminal Procedure (2020.21, 2023.24)
Jersey Professional Legal Ethics (2021.22, 2023.24)
Guersey Police Station Advice and the Defence Case Statements ordinance 2023 (2023.24)
In addition, Dominic has edited the following,
Guernsey Civil Procedure Statutes (2019.20, 2020.21, 2021.22, 2022.23, 2023.24).
Guernsey Criminal Statutes (2019.20, 2020.21, 2021.22, 2022.23, 2023.24).
Jersey Civil Procedure Statutes 2019.20, 2021.22, 2023.24).
Jersey Criminal Procedure Statutes 2019.20, 2021.22, 2023.24).
Dominic's blog on personal injury and law in general is at dominicdesaulles.wordpress.com
Teaching
Dominic is currently teaching the following subjects on the BTC at the Cardiff School of Law and Politics:
Civil Procedure,
Alternative Dispute Resolution option,
Submission Advocacy,
Trial Advocacy 1 and 2,
Conferencing.
For the Institute of Law Jersey, Dominic has taught the following professional courses, together with adjuncts in the relevant jurisidcitions:
Guernsey Civil Litigation (2019.20- 2023.24).
Guernsey Criminal Litigation (2019.20-2023.24).
Guernsey Police SDtation Advice (2023.24).
Guernsey Professional Ethics (2019.20-2023.24).
Jersey Civil Procedure (2019.20, 2021.22, 2023.24).
Jersey Criminal Procedure 2019.20, 2021.22, 2023.24).
Biography
Dominic was the independent academic for the SRA research project: An Assessment of the Market in Personal Injury. You can read the Report and what the SRA decided to do as a result of it here.
Dominic has been asked to review the syllabus for Guersey Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure.
Dominic has been asked to work on portfolio materials for Isle of Man Civil Procedure.
Details of Dominic's teaching and research are to be found under separate tabs.
Specialisms
- 19th -21st Century International Civil Procedure
- Private international law
- Offshore Civil Procedure
- Offshore Legal Professional Ethics