Professor Rudi Fortson, QC, LLB (Lond), Barrister (Middle Temple)

Fortson

Visiting Professor

Website: http://www.rudifortson4law.co.uk/

Rudi Fortson QC is a Visiting Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London, and he has been a barrister in independent practice for some 30 years at 25 Bedford Row, London, and he "took silk" in 2010. As well as an in-court practitioner, Rudi Fortson has written and lectured extensively on many criminal-law issues. He has attended several experts' meetings at the European Commission on behalf of the 'Bar Council of England and Wales', and the 'Criminal Bar Association'. He was a member of the 'Police Foundation Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971' (Chair: Viscountess Runciman DBE), and a member of the 'Criminal Justice Forum' for the Institute of Public Policy Research [IPPR]. More recently he was a member of the Independent Working Group on Drug Consumption Rooms for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Publications:

Key publications

  • Contributing author to "Banks and Financial Crime The International Law of Tainted Money", edited by William Blair QC and Richard Brent, OUP, 2008.
  • 'The Serious Crime Act 2007' (May, 2008; Blackstone's Guide, OUP)
  • Contributing editor to Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2008 (firearms; other weapons; explosives; drugs; drug trafficking)
  • ''Misuse of Drugs Offences, Confiscation and Money Laundering' (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th ed., December 2005).
  • 'The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005’ (Sweet & Maxwell)
  • 'Criminal Justice Act 2003' (Sweet & Maxwell)
  • 'Criminal Justice Act 1993' (Sweet & Maxwell )

Annotated Statutes (Current Law Statutes; Sweet & Maxwell):

  • Coroners and Justice Act 2009
  • Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
  • Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill (in preparation)
  • Drugs Act 2005
  • Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005  (Nov 2005)
  • Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004
  • Gangmasters Act 2004
  • Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Parts 1-11, 13 (part) and 14).
  • Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (civil recovery)
  • Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994
  • Drug Trafficking Act 1994
  • Criminal Justice Act 1993
  • Criminal Justice Act 1991
  • Criminal Justice (International Co-operation) Act 1990