Helen Rutherford

Biography

A qualified solicitor, Helen Rutherford graduated from Newcastle University in 1989 with an LL.B (hons) degree and then completed the Law Society Finals at the College of Law in York. She completed her training contract with Hay and Kilner solicitors in Newcastle and on qualification practiced in the litigation department handling claimant personal injury and clinical negligence cases. After six years she moved to Crutes Law Firm (now DWF) where she conducted defendant personal injury and clinical negligence litigation on behalf of insurance companies and the NHSLA. Helen is a qualified teacher, a member of the Society for Education and Training and a fellow of the HEA. She joined the University on a permanent contract in 2012 as a senior lecturer. Helen teaches Litigation, Trials of Dissenters and Inquests on the MLaw and LLB degrees. She manages a civil firm in the Student Law Office. Helen has an MA in North East History from Newcastle University and her research interest is in relation to inquests and trials in the nineteenth century. She is carrying out PhD research at Newcastle University into the life and work of the Victorian Coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne, John Theodore Hoyle (provisionally titled: The Coroner in an Emerging Industrial Society- Newcastle upon Tyne 1831-1886). A qualified solicitor, Helen Rutherford graduated from Newcastle University in 1989 with an LL.B (hons) degree and then completed the Law Society Finals at the College of Law in York. She completed her training contract with Hay and Kilner solicitors in Newcastle and on qualification practiced in the litigation department handling claimant personal injury and clinical negligence cases. After six years she moved to Crutes Law Firm (now DWF) where she conducted defendant personal injury and clinical negligence litigation on behalf of insurance companies and the NHSLA. Helen is a qualified teacher, a member of the Society for Education and Training and a fellow of the HEA. She joined the University on a permanent contract in 2012 as a senior lecturer. Helen teaches Litigation, Trials of Dissenters and Inquests on the MLaw and LLB degrees. She manages a civil firm in the Student Law Office. Helen has an MA in North East History from Newcastle University and her research interest is in relation to inquests and trials in the nineteenth century. She is carrying out PhD research at Newcastle University into the life and work of the Victorian Coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne, John Theodore Hoyle (provisionally titled: The Coroner in an Emerging Industrial Society- Newcastle upon Tyne 1831-1886).

Research Interest

The nineteenth century coroner and legal history, in particular micro history with a North East England focus.