Academic Staff
Raymond Pierce
Teaching Consultant
Barrister-at-law
Raymond Pierce is a practising barrister-at-law and has been a Teaching Consultant in the Department of Professional Legal Education since 2004. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1995 and to the Hong Kong Bar in 1997. His main duties in the Department involve the development of the advocacy programmes on the PCLL programme.
He is a member of the United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Management and has 22 years experience of public service in law enforcement.
He holds a position as Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and has been a Gazetted Public Prosecutor of the Republic of the Fiji Islands since 2001. He was appointed as a consultant to the Fiji Law Reform Commission in August 2004.
Mr. Pierce currently teaches both non-trial and trial advocacy on the full and part-time PCLL programmes. He also teaches public law and criminal law for HKU SPACE on the University of London LLB programme, criminal procedure on the DLS programme and Law of Tort on the CPE programme. He designed and conducted a number of seminars on Hong Kong law for Directorate Officers and senior operational staff of one Government Department. He is a member of the Board of Examiners for the SPACE Diploma in Legal Studies and is the External Examiner for the SPACE AALS ’Legal Systems’ and ‘Basic Law & Bill of Rights’ courses. He was appointed in 2005 as academic Assessor for the latter course. He authored the ILEX/ HKU SPACE DLS Course manual on the ‘Law of Tort’ (2004-2005) and co-edited the ILEX/HKU SPACE DLS Casebook (2004-2005).
He has trained with and taught advocacy for the Hong Kong Bar Association (Advanced Legal Education Programme) the Middle Temple (England), the Australian Advocacy Institute and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (USA). He was appointed as an examiner on the Hong Kong Bar Association Barristers’ Qualification Examination in 2006 and currently teaches a course on the Overseas Lawyers’ Qualification Examination programme.
Specialized Areas: Criminal Law & Evidence; Civil @ Criminal Litigation and Advocacy
