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Paul Connor Cert Ed (FE), PG Cert ODE (Open), LLB
Paul is a law lecturer and freelance writer for Oxford University Press. Amongst his other published works he is the:
- Lead author of Blackstone’s Police Investigators’ Manual
- Author of Blackstone’s Police Investigators’ Workbook
- Author of Blackstone’s Police Investigators’ Q & A
- Co-Author of Blackstone’s Police Investigators’ Mock Exam
Paul has professional legal and educational qualifications
- LLB (Law)
- Cert Ed (FE)
- PG Cert ODE (Open)
Paul is also the author of the Blackstone’s Crime Manual, the General Police Duties Manual and is the Consultant Editor of the whole Blackstone’s series of police Manuals.
He is a College of Policing trained multiple-choice question writer and has written well over 5000 MCQs for a variety of commercial publications.
Paul is the most experienced NIE law lecturer in the country
- He began lecturing NIE candidates in October 2002 (when the NIE was a trial scheme in a handful of forces)
- His success with West Midlands Police was exceptional leading to him delivering crammer courses to police forces and organisations all over the country between 2003 and 2006.
- Paul left the police in 2007 and since then has delivered NIE crammer courses all over England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Julianna Mitchell LLB (Hons), BCL, Barrister
Julianna is a barrister, with chambers in the Temple, London. She has three first-class degrees in law, including an LLB (Hons) from the University of Birmingham (where she gained some of the highest marks ever awarded by the Law Faculty) and a BCL from the University of Oxford (widely considered to be the premier taught law degree in the common law world). After graduating from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, Julianna studied for her bar exams at the Inns of Court School of Law, and graduated top of her year from Lincoln’s Inn, being awarded the Sunley Scholarship and Ede & Ravenscroft Award for Student of the Year.
She has previously contributed to ‘Halsbury’s Laws’, and has a wide experience of teaching law beginning in 1994 when she lectured to undergraduates at the University of Oxford. Between 2001 and 2025, Julianna taught law from the Sergeants’ and Inspectors’ and NIE syllabuses to thousands of police officers from every police force in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, as part of the highly successful Checkmate Training crammer course team. Julianna joined Paul Connor to deliver the NIE Crammer Course at the beginning of 2023.
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