Professor Rudi Fortson, KC, LLB (Lond), Barrister (Middle Temple)
Visiting Professor
Website: http://www.rudifortson4law.co.uk
Profile
Rudi Fortson KC 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.