Daniel Lucas

Contact

• workUniversity Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• Daniel.Lucas@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Daniel is a part-time doctoral student at the School of Law and is completing his studies whilst working as a Senior Planning and Litigation Lawyer in Local Government on the South coast. Daniel holds a 2:1 Law degree (Nottingham Trent University) and a Post-graduate Diploma in Professional Legal Studies (Bar Vocational Course, Inns of Court School of Law). Daniel was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2004 and is a Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. He has also formerly been a Financial Ombudsman during the PPI (Payment Protection Insurance) mis-sale crisis (2013-2017).

Alongside his legal qualifications he also holds the professional local council Clerk's qualification: CiLCA (Certificate in Local Council Administration), to enable a local council to exercise the General Power of Competence. He was nominated as one of three finalists in the national "New Clerk of the Year" award (2019-2020) held by the Society of Local Council Clerks and was also a Runner Up in the 2018 South West Councils - South West Challenge. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Local Council Clerks (FSLCC).

Research Summary

Daniel's research examines the New Poor Laws and the evolution of the workhouse regime up until the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. His study concentrates upon the workhouses of Southampton… read more

Selected Publications

• 2012. "Lost and Found?" Available at: <www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/314-governance-a-risk-articles/9390-lost-and-found>
• 2012. "Nothing to Declare?" Available at: <www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/314-governance-a-risk-articles/10039-nothing-to-declare>
• 2003. Issue estoppel in Children Act proceedings: an 'alien' concept? Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies. 7(1/2), 33-50

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Current Research

Daniel's research examines the New Poor Laws and the evolution of the workhouse regime up until the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834. His study concentrates upon the workhouses of Southampton (Hampshire) and Christchurch (Dorset) and draws upon Michel Foucault's concepts of "Governmentality" and modern theoretical understandings of liberal paternalism. His methodological approach is predominantly archival utilising historical workhouse records and makes use of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis as the analytical framework for his thesis. The provisional working title of his thesis is Local Governmentality and the New Poor Laws.

Daniel's Supervisors are: Dr Nell Munro, Prof. Richard Hyde and Dr Sarah Holland.

Daniel's research interests are in Socio-legal studies, Social Welfare Law, Public Law, Local Government Law, Town and Country Planning Law, Foucauldian Studies, Critical Theory.

• 2012. "Lost and Found?" Available at: <www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/314-governance-a-risk-articles/9390-lost-and-found>
• 2012. "Nothing to Declare?" Available at: <www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/314-governance-a-risk-articles/10039-nothing-to-declare>
• 2003. Issue estoppel in Children Act proceedings: an 'alien' concept? Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies. 7(1/2), 33-50