The Faculty has a substantial staff team. In 1994-95 these are complemented by 12 teaching assistants who at the time of the visit were responsible for the delivery of about 10 per cent of the undergraduate curriculum. This was a higher number and larger proportion of teaching assistants than usual pending the filling of some full-time posts. Two-thirds of the permanent staff are male. Lecturers are assisted by 5.5 support staff, who are well integrated into the work of the Faculty, as well as by a recently appointed specialist law librarian and IT manager.
Academic staff are very well qualified for their work.
More than half have relevant professional qualifications, and over two-thirds have higher degrees. Their record in research and publication, and in relevant professional activity, is excellent, with clear benefit to the graduate and undergraduate curriculum. Staff are carefully deployed to teach subjects in which they have particular expertise. In 1994-95 there is an indication of lack of depth of staffing in one curriculum area, in that the successful LLM course in Computers and the Law, which is in considerable demand, has been suspended for a year because of the absence of one lecturer. There is a well-developed staff appraisal system, and senior staff of the Faculty play an important role in identifying staff development needs, many of which are met at faculty level through the sensitive allocation of work, peer assistance and access to conference funds.