John Stannard graduated from Oxford University in 1974 and has been a lecturer in law at the Queen's University of Belfast since 1977. His principal teaching and research interests are in criminal law, contract, sentencing and law and the emotions.David Capper is Reader in Law at Queen's University Belfast where he has worked for over 30 years. He is a former practising and now non-practising member of the Bar of Northern Ireland and an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association. His principal teaching and research interests lie in the fields of contract and commercial law, civil procedure, and private law remedies. Less