Lecturer

LLB Law with French (Birmingham)

Email: gemma.turton@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2395

Gemma joined Leicester in 2008 having previously worked at the University of Birmingham as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant. Her primary research interests lie in the field of tort law and she is currently completing her doctoral thesis which focuses on the issue of causation in negligence. Gemma will be teaching Tort Law (module convenor for semester one) and French Legal Studies at Leicester this year.

Research Interests

Tort law, causation, negligence (inc. medical negligence).

Selected Publications

• ‘Sienkiewicz v Greif (UK) Ltd: a cautionary tale for causation’ (2011) 27 Professional Negligence 166-172
• ‘Connecting Canengus to the University Curriculum’ (2010) 7 Journal Jurisprudence 441-463
  
• 'Factual and legal causation - their relation to negligence in nursing' (2009) 18 British Journal of Nursing 825
• 'A Case for Clarity in Causation?' (2009) 17 Medical Law Review 140
• 'Defining Damage in the House of Lords' (2008) 71 Modern Law Review 1009