Commissioner Cooke

Professor Elizabeth Cooke has been announced as the new Law Commissioner responsible for property, family and trust law projects by the Lord Chancellor, Jack Straw. Cooke, who takes over from Stuart Bridge, has been appointed for five years from 3 July 2008. A professor of law at the University of Reading, Cooke trained with law firm Withers, then worked as an assistant solicitor at Barrett and Thompson, Slough, from 1989 to 1991. As chairman of the University of Reading research ethics committee, Cooke has authored and edited several publications, including Land Law in 2006 by the Clarendon Law series of the Oxford University Press, and The Modern Law of Estoppel (2000).