Russell Hewitson is an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School. He is a Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Property Law.
Russell is module tutor for Property Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts on the LPC; Property Law and Practice, Drafting and Solicitors Accounts on the MLaw programme; Property Law and Practice on the Solicitors Apprenticeship degree, and Client Care and Professional Standards and Commercial Leases on the PSC.
He is the Law Society Council member for commercial property and the academic member of the Law Society’s Conveyancing and Land Law Committee.
Russell is general editor of Precedents for the Conveyancer, Practical Lease Precedents, and Practical Conveyancing Precedents. He is a consultant editor of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Handbook and has written a number of other books including Conveyancing Searches and Enquiries, Licensing Law Handbook and Business Tenancies. He is also the Practice and Precedents Editor of The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer.
Russell's research interests include land law and land registration, landlord and tenant law, co-ownership and the reform of property law. He has consulted to both government and the Law Commission.
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