Professional Responsibilities:

Professional Profile: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/law/staff/chaynee-hodgetts/en

Bangor University School of Law:

Module Leader: Criminal Law

Module Leader: Evidence

Module Leader: Media Law

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor: School of Law

Law Admissions Guide: "How to Write Your UCAS Personal Statement": www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwKakQfWQo

Law Admissions Tutor: "Law Virtual Visit Day": www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Re_EWJKVp4

Co-Author, Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law: Co-Author of leading student Criminal Law textbook, with Professor David Ormerod QC, from 2021/2022.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) - Fast Track Fellowship

Peer Review Panel Member: International Journal of Emergency Services.

Director of Pro Bono Casework: Casework for the Director of Clinical Legal Education.

Personal Tutor: For 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Undergraduate LLB and LLM Law students.

Course Director: LLB Law with Criminology; LLB Law with Media Studies; LLB Law with Creative Writing; LLM Law with Criminology.

Research Supervisor: LLB Dissertation; LLM Dissertation; LLM by Research (LLM Res); MPhil; PhD.

Member of Nautilus International (seagoing, then shore-based):

Nautilus International Telegraph career history interview for International Women's Day 2020: 

www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/telegraph/meet-member-chaynee-hodgetts-lawyer

Nautilus International Champion: Member of Careers Champions group for the maritime seafarers’ Union.

Law School Employability Committee: Member, advising on employability, Bar careers, and Advocacy.

University Gender-Based Violence Committee: Member, by invitation, in Criminal Law advisory capacity.

Law School Sports Officer: Co-ordinates liaison with the University gym, sports, health and wellbeing for staff.

Representation, pro bono community legal work, and Advocacy:

Pro bono criminal appeals: 13 years’ experience in this area, including CCRC applications.

Inquest Advocate (Lead/Alone): Represents families, pro bono, in Coroners’ Court: Representation, conferences, advocacy and submissions as the family advocate, at both PIH and inquest.

Attorney-General’s Fiat: Experience of leading in making an application for a fresh inquest (s.13 Coroners Act 1988).

Client Work: Experience of advising both appellants and vulnerable defendants (both with Lead Counsel and alone).

Law Commission Work: Experience of assisting in work at the Law Commission office & its symposia (including those on AML).

Negotiation: Delivers guest lectures for the Bangor University Negotiation Society on negotiation, diplomacy, and ADR.

Moot Coaching:

Extensive experience of internal moots (judging) and national moots (organising/coaching), including: OUP Moot; Blackstone’s Mock Trial Competition; University of Portsmouth Mock Trial; NSLS Moot; LexisNexis Welsh National Moot; European Moot Law Competition (2008-2009). I also assisted colleagues with coaching of Telders Moot team & ICC Moot team.

Criminal Trial Advocacy Teaching:

Designed and provides the Bangor University Law School Criminal Trial Advocacy Course, a short extracurricular course, over several days, providing training in trial advocacy for Undergraduate students. Some of these students have used this training to act as advocates in the Bangor University Law Fair Mock Trial, where they were heard by a High Court Judge.

Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath):

Lay Adviser in Teaching & Learning and Examinations: Lay Adviser in Teaching & Learning and Examinations for the Royal College of Pathologists.

Bangor University Medical School, School of Medical Sciences:

Visiting Lecturer in Law: MBBCh Medical Students at Bangor University Medical School.

Queen Mary University London (QMUL): Blizard Institute Centre for Trauma Sciences:

Visiting Module Lecturer: Law for Emergency Medics (M4 and M8), on Professor Tim Harris’ MSc Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine.

University College Cork, Ireland (2020-present):

Law Lecturer (PT Panel): Member of the PT Academic Staff Panel (Law Lecturer: Criminal Law & Evidence).

Previous Teaching Posts:

Bangor University Law School: Legal Research Methods (LLM). Introduction to the Criminal Justice System and Criminal Trial Process (Legal System).

Portsmouth University Law School: Legal System; Public Law; Classes on the Extracurricular Advocacy Certificate Course (evenings).

BPP University Law School, London Waterloo: Visiting Lecturer (2018-2019): Constitutional & Administrative Law: Taught (freelance) on the QLD Conversion LLM.

Languages

Fluent English and French, and competent Welsh.

Passed North Wales Fire and Rescue Service Firefighters’ Welsh Test (Level 2).

Learning Russian, Italian, Irish, Scots Gaelic, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Polish, and Latin.

Memberships

• The Honourable Society of Middle Temple;
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (Fast-Track);
• The Society of Legal Scholars;
• Nautilus International;
• Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO).

Qualifications: Academic:

• PhD by Publication on Domestic Maritime Criminal Law (due imminently)
• LLM (Res) Research Masters’ on Criminalisation & fatal maritime incidents: Distinction
• LLB (Hons) Law Degree, Class 2:1, University of Wales, Bangor (Maritime Dissertation 80%), including one year of BSc (Hons) Marine Vertebrate Zoology, Bangor University

Qualifications: Legal Practice (Bar of England and Wales):

• Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) PT as a Mature Student while lecturing:
• Very Competent (74%): Call to the Bar in 2019 by The Honourable Society of Middle Temple.

Qualifications: Teaching:

• Safeguarding Children Child Protection Worker (Extended Course) with Enhanced CRB/DBS Certificate.

• GPROF Higher Education Postgraduate Lecturer Development Programme Qualified: SFHEA application ongoing.

• DCQE: How Students Learn; Introduction to Assessment & Marking; Effective Written Feedback.

• Nominated: LawCareers.Net Law Lecturer of the Year (for 4 years, until the award’s existence was concluded).

• Shortlisted: Outstanding Pastoral Support (University Student-Led Teaching Awards (Bangor University SLTA Awards, 2018-19).

• Nominated: Teacher of the Year & Dissertation/Thesis Supervisor of the Year (Bangor University SLTA Awards, 2019-20).

• NOCN Level 2: Building & Managing Workplace Relationships; Recognising Leadership Skills; Employability.

Situation Management:

• Bangor University Staff Course: Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence;
• Bangor University Staff Course: Unconscious Bias Training;
• Zero Suicide Alliance: Suicide Prevention Training.
• Fairbridge: Managing Difficult Behaviour: Developing Young People’s Behaviour.
• Fairbridge: Facilitation, Participation & Group Dynamics.
• NOCN Level 2 Award: Building and Managing Workplace Relationships
• NOCN Level 2 Award: Recognising Leadership Skills
• NOCN Level 2 Award: Employability
• LYNDA: The Neuroscience of Learning.
• Violence and Aggression Management Qualified: All-Wales Passport Training: Modules A, B & C.
• NaCTSO: Action Counters Terrorism Awareness (Counter-Terrorism Certified E-Learning Qualification).
• Forensics: L1 Forensic Science & Fingerprints (OU);
• Introduction to Forensic Sciences (University of Strathclyde).

Qualifications: Other:

• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Proficiency in Medical Care
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Medical First Aid At Sea
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Advanced Firefighting
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Proficiency in Survival Craft & Rescue Boats
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Personal Safety and Social Responsibilities
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Fire Prevention and Basic Firefighting
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Personal Survival Techniques
• STCW 95 Merchant Navy qualification: Elementary First Aid

• Merchant Navy Steering Certificate
• Elementary Food Hygiene Certificate
• Raymarine “Introduction to Radar” qualification
• VHF/DSC (RYA qualified) Marine Radio Operator
• RYA Certificates: Day Skipper Certificate (Theory); Level 1 Sailing; Competent Crew
• MCA National Powerboat Certificate (Level 2 Coastal, planing & displacement, held Commercial Certificate)

• Qualified Emergency Responder (emergency response care & defibrillation)
• Appointed Person & Emergency First Aid in the Workplace course
• St John Ambulance Emergency Life Support (with marine & maritime rescue focus)
• Big Tree Training: Basic Life Support; Child Protection

• British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) Marine Mammal Medic
• Vetsim and VetCam (residential courses on veterinary topics, latter Cambridge University)
• Experienced Marine Life Observer (EMLO) - Sea Watch Foundation

• MVS Modular Qualifications: Maritime Foundation Course (Seamanship, Engineering, Operational Support); First Aid; Establish and Maintain Radio Communications; Launch and Recover Boats; Chartwork; Computer Skills; and Operations Room Skills

Selected Publications and Papers:

• Peer Review Panel Member: Panel Member of the International Journal of Emergency Services (IJES).

• Book Author, Smith, Hogan & Ormerod’s Essentials of Criminal Law: With Professor David Ormerod QC, from 2021/22. 

• Written evidence: Commission on Justice in Wales; Chief Counsel for Wales; and addressed Sir Keir Starmer MP at the TUC Congress 2020 on behalf of Nautilus International. 

• C. Hodgetts and C. MacPartholán, “An Evolution in Devolution?: The Commission on Justice in Wales & Welsh Criminal Justice” [2021] 1(1) Crim LR 34 – Commissioned Paper for Criminal Law Review (8,000 words).

• C. MacPartholán and C. Hodgetts, “In the firing line?: The effects of the Policing and Crime Act 2017 on Fire and Rescue Services” (2021, for Public Law. This paper is of relevance to the Grenfell Tower incident).

• C. Hodgetts, “‘Mind the gap’: International issues in the domestic investigation of incidents in the maritime locus" (In progress, Commissioned Paper for Criminal Law Review – 8,000 words).

• C. Hodgetts, “‘A drop in the ocean’: Problems posed by traditional crime and evidence in the maritime locus” (Forthcoming, 2021 – Accepted by Criminal Law Review for April 2021 – 12,000 words).

• C. Hodgetts, “Riot: The Law of Equals and Opposites?” (2017) 181 JPN 755 (CLJW) (3,800 words).

• J. Roberts and C. Hodgetts, “Courting contempt?: Untangling the web of jurors’ internet use under Section 8 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981” (2015) 3 Communications Law 86 (5,000 words).

• A.W. Griffiths, C. Hodgetts, R. Ni Thuama, “The legal context of residential care and corporate governance” (2015) 168-202 (c. 17,700 words). Part of Dr M. Flynn, A Review of the neglect of older people living in care homes investigated as Operation Jasmine (2015, Welsh Government). Discussed in the Senedd by the First Minister. Due to be a REF Impact Case Study. Led to legal change - Regulation and Inspection of Social Care (Wales) Act 2016 (RISCA 2016).

• C. Hodgetts, “You Do Not Have To Say Anything?” (2014) 1 Criminal Bar Quarterly 7 (2,000 words).

• C. Hodgetts, “Hit and Miss?: An Elementary Analysis of Domestic Criminal Statutes and Involuntary Manslaughter in Fatal Maritime Collisions and Near Miss Incidents” (2014) 78 J Crim Law 27 (8,300 words).

• C. Hodgetts, “Silence of the Damned?” (2014) 178 JPN 7 (CLJW) (2,000 words).

• C. Hodgetts, “The devil or the deep blue sea,” (2012) 45 (4) Nautilus International Telegraph 22 (2,800 words).

• SLS Conference 2012: “Sea Trials: Problems posed by maritime matters in domestic criminal law.”

• Gregynog: “Fathoming maritime evidence: Problems posed by perceptions and evidence in maritime criminal law” (2013); and “Hell or high water: Criminal liability for fatal maritime incidents: Heralding a turning tide?” (2011).

Bangor University School of Law:

Module Leader: Criminal Law

Module Leader: Evidence

Module Leader: Media Law

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor: School of Law

Law Admissions Guide: "How to Write Your UCAS Personal Statement": www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWwKakQfWQo

Law Admissions Tutor: "Law Virtual Visit Day": www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Re_EWJKVp4

Co-Author, Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law: Co-Author of leading student Criminal Law textbook, with Professor David Ormerod QC, from 2021/2022.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) - Fast Track Fellowship

Peer Review Panel Member: International Journal of Emergency Services.

Director of Pro Bono Casework: Casework for the Director of Clinical Legal Education.

Personal Tutor: For 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Undergraduate LLB and LLM Law students.

Course Director: LLB Law with Criminology; LLB Law with Media Studies; LLB Law with Creative Writing; LLM Law with Criminology.

Research Supervisor: LLB Dissertation; LLM Dissertation; LLM by Research (LLM Res); MPhil; PhD.

Member of Nautilus International (seagoing, then shore-based):

Nautilus International Telegraph career history interview for International Women's Day 2020: 

www.nautilusint.org/en/news-insight/telegraph/meet-member-chaynee-hodgetts-lawyer

Nautilus International Champion: Member of Careers Champions group for the maritime seafarers’ Union.

Law School Employability Committee: Member, advising on employability, Bar careers, and Advocacy.

University Gender-Based Violence Committee: Member, by invitation, in Criminal Law advisory capacity.

Law School Sports Officer: I co-ordinate liaison with the University gym, sports, health and wellbeing for staff.

Representation, pro bono community legal work, and Advocacy:

Pro bono criminal appeals: 13 years’ experience in this area, including CCRC applications.

Inquest Advocate (Lead/Alone): Represents families, pro bono, in Coroners’ Court: Representation, conferences, advocacy and submissions as the family advocate, at both PIH and inquest.

Attorney-General’s Fiat: Experience of leading in making an application for a fresh inquest (s.13 Coroners Act 1988).

Client Work: Experience of advising both appellants and vulnerable defendants (both with Lead Counsel and alone).

Law Commission Work: Experience of assisting inwork at the Law Commission office & its symposia (including those on AML).

Negotiation: Delivers guest lectures for the Bangor University Negotiation Society on negotiation, diplomacy, and ADR.

Moot Coaching:

Extensive experience of internal moots (judging) and national moots (organising/coaching), including: OUP Moot; Blackstone’s Mock Trial Competition; University of Portsmouth Mock Trial; NSLS Moot; LexisNexis Welsh National Moot; European Moot Law Competition (2008-2009). I also assisted colleagues with coaching of Telders Moot team & ICC Moot team.

Criminal Trial Advocacy Teaching:

Designed and provides the Bangor University Law School Criminal Trial Advocacy Course. This is a short extracurricular course, over several days, providing training in trial advocacy for Undergraduate students. Some of these students have used this training to act as advocates in the Bangor University Law Fair Mock Trial, where they were heard by a High Court Judge.

Bangor University Medical School, School of Medical Sciences:

Visiting Lecturer in Law: MBBCh Medical Students at Bangor University Medical School.

Queen Mary University London (QMUL): Blizard Institute Centre for Trauma Sciences:

Visiting Module Lecturer: Law for Emergency Medics (M4 and M8), on Professor Tim Harris’ MSc Emergency and Resuscitation Medicine.

University College Cork, Ireland (2020-present):

Law Lecturer (PT Panel): Member of the PT Academic Staff Panel (Law Lecturer: Criminal Law & Evidence).

Previous Teaching Posts:

Bangor University Law School: Legal Research Methods (LLM). Introduction to the Criminal Justice System and Criminal Trial Process (Legal System).

Portsmouth University Law School: Legal System; Public Law; Classes on the Extracurricular Advocacy Certificate Course (evenings).

BPP University Law School, London Waterloo: Visiting Lecturer (2018-2019): Constitutional & Administrative Law: Taught (freelance) on the QLD Conversion LLM.

My research covers a broad range of topics within Criminal Law, Evidence, and Media Law, including (but not limited to):

• Maritime criminal law (domestic criminal law and crimes committed aboard ship);
• Maritime evidential preservation;
• The right to silence;
• Involuntary manslaughter;
• Public Order law and riot;
• The law on jurors and jury trial;
• Criminal Procedure and Practice;
• The criminal trial process and legal education;
• Criminal law and residential care of older people;
• Access to justice and Clinical Legal Education;
• Public law and Inquests.

Peer Review Panel Member: International Journal of Emergency Services.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) - Fast Track Fellowship

Co-Author, Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law: Co-Author of leading student Criminal Law textbook, with Professor David Ormerod QC, from 2021/2022.