Dawn Jones

Dawn Jones

Senior Lecturer – Legal Practice Course and LLB

  • Email address D.Jones6@wlv.ac.uk
  • Phone number 01902 32 1744
  • Location MH012, Mary Seacole Building
  • Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Institute University of Wolverhampton Law School
  • Areas of expertise

    Property Law, Legal Drafting,  Commercial Property

I am a qualified solicitor and spent many years in both private practice and local government where I specialised in the area of Commercial Property. Since joining the University of Wolverhampton I have taught predominantly on the Legal Practice Course. 

 

I am actively engaged in pedagogic research, predominately in the area of legal education

 

Law Society – roll of solicitors

Senior Fellow of HEA

  • LLM (Professional Practice)
  • PGCE
  • LPC (Distinction)
  • LLB (Hons)

 

First year law students: the impact of assessment type on attainment

Dawn Jones and Lynn Ellison, Taylor and Francis Journal: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2018.1496398

Legal skills and the SQE: Confronting the challenge head on 

Dawn Jones, Taylor & Francis Journal: The Law Teacher https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2018.1515841

The intrinsic value of formative assessment and feedback as learning tools in the acquisition and improvement of a practical legal skill

Dawn Jones Publisher: Taylor & Francis Journal: The Law Teacher
DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2020.1717830
 

When is a word not just a word? An investigation into the dissonance and synergy between intention and understanding of the language of feedback in legal education

Dawn Jones and Lynn Ellison, Taylor & Francis Journal: The Law Teacher DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2020.1729012

 “Am I still on mute?” A reflection of online teaching in the Covid-19 Pandemic

Dawn Jones and Lynn Ellison, Wolverhampton Law Journal (2020) 5 WLJ 47

Dawn Jones and Lynn Ellison, 'Opportunities to improve the process of 'assessment unpacking' resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic', in Patrick Baughan (editor), Assessment and Feedback in Law, Case Studies from the Sector (2021) Advance HE, 4-13
Lynn Ellison, Dawn Jones, Anima Sultana and Jack Whitehouse, "The curious case of the colliery and the blanket," a paper presented at the Association of Law Teachers Conference 2023, University of Westminister, London, April 2023.
 

As a solicitor in private practice I have experience of dealing with large value commercial property transactions on behalf of commercial clients

Teaching interests

  • Property Law and Practice
  • Probate
  • Commercial Property Law
  • Drafting
  • Land Law
  • Solicitors Accounts