Poor Defence Lawyering in Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative View

Ashlee Beazley is a postdoctoral research associate at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven. She holds a PhD from the KU Leuven, where she defended her thesis on Poor Lawyering: A Comparative Study of the Quality of Criminal Defence Assistance in England and Belgium in 2023. Her research interests include comparative criminal law and procedure, European criminal law, legal history, legal ethics, and defence and fair trial rights.

Michele Panzavolta is Professor of Criminal Law at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven. He has academic experience in different countries and has worked as a criminal attorney and as a parliamentary consultant. He specialises in European and comparative criminal law and procedure, with a particular focus on the protection of individual rights in criminal matters. His main research interests are in judicial cooperation and procedural rights, evidence, intelligence-related topics, financial crime and asset recovery, and cybercrime.

Andrew Sanders is an emeritus professor at the University of Warwick. He was head of Warwick’s School of Law from January 2019 to June 2022. He was formerly head of the School of Law, Politics and Sociology at the University of Sussex from 2015 to 2019. He has previously worked at the University of Bristol, University of Manchester, and University of Birmingham. At both Birmingham and Manchester he was head of department for several years. He researches in the area of criminal justice: prosecutions, suspects' rights, police powers, courts, and victims of crime.