Eva Lomnicka
{{Short description|British academic}}
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|citizenship = British
|alma_mater = Cambridge University
MA and LLB
|known_for = Financial Services Law
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Eva Zofia Lomnicka (born 17 May 1951){{Citation |url=http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/l/21984/Eva%20Zofia+LOMNICKA.aspx |title=Prof Eva Lomnicka |work=Prof Eva Lomnicka's Biography |publisher=debretts.com |accessdate=August 21, 2011}} is a professor of law at King's College London School of Law. She contributes to a number of leading texts and is an expert on the law of consumer credit and financial services law more generally. She has been appointed Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa in 2020 and retired as a Barrister from Lincoln's Inn.{{cite web |title=4 New Square new Silk appointments 2020 - 4 New Square Chambers |url=https://www.4newsquare.com/4-new-square-new-silk-appointments-2020/ |website=4 New Square |access-date=14 August 2022 |date=16 January 2020}}
Biography
Eva has graduated her Bachelor of Laws and Master of Arts degrees at Cambridge University{{Citation |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/law/people/academic/elomnicka.aspx |title=Academic Profiles |work=Professor Eva Lomnicka |publisher=www.kcl.ac.uk |accessdate=August 21, 2011}} and qualified as a barrister. Her early work focused on discrimination, but soon moved into the fields of consumer credit, as the Consumer Credit Act 1974 was passed. The subsequent overhaul of consumer credit laws implemented in the Consumer Credit Act 2006 was prepared by the then Department of Trade and Industry’s ‘Consumer Credit Steering Group’ in which Eva was involved.{{cite web |last1=Ministry of Justice |title=Lord Chancellor welcomes new Queen's Counsel. Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of 114 new Queen's Counsel. |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/lord-chancellor-welcomes-new-queen-s-counsel |website=GOV.UK |access-date=14 August 2022 |language=en |date=16 January 2020 |author1-link=Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom) }}
In 1975, she joined King's College London as a lecturer{{cite web |title=Professor Eva Lomnicka awarded QC Honoris Causa |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/professor-eva-lomnicka-awarded-qc-honoris-causa |website=www.kcl.ac.uk |access-date=14 August 2022 |date=21 January 2020}} and became professor in 1993.{{cite web |title=Eva Lomnicka - Biography - Research Portal, King's College, London |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/eva-lomnicka(7de242cb-aae1-49ad-9d76-2286f7701de1)/biography.html |website=kclpure.kcl.ac.uk |access-date=14 August 2022}}
On 21 January 2020 she was awarded the title of Queen's Counsel Honoris Causa,{{cite web |last1=Ministry of Justice and The Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP |title=Queen's Counsel Appointments Ceremony 2020: Lord Chancellor speech |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-counsel-appointments-ceremony-2020-lord-chancellor-speech |website=GOV.UK |access-date=14 August 2022 |language=en |date=16 March 2020}}{{Cite web |title=Crown Office {{!}} The Gazette |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3535105 |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=www.thegazette.co.uk}} one of ten individuals to receive the award in the year.
Eva is a Bencher of the Middle Temple{{cite web |title=Middle Temple {{!}} The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple |url=https://www.middletemple.org.uk/bencher-persons-view?cid=34841 |website=www.middletemple.org.uk |access-date=14 August 2022}} and was practising barrister with an advisory practice in consumer credit and financial services regulation at Lincoln's Inn Chambers.{{cite web |title=Eva Lomnicka |url=https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-006-8339?transitionType=Default&contextData=(sc.Default)&firstPage=true |website=Practical Law |access-date=14 August 2022}}
Publications
;Articles
- 'The future of consumer credit regulation: a chance to rationalise sanctions for breaches of financial services regulatory regimes?' (2013) 34(1) Company Lawyer 13
- 'The preventing and controlling the manipulation of financial markets: Towards a Definition of "Market Manipulation"' (2001) 8(4) Journal of Financial Crime 297
- '"Knowingly concerned"? Participatory liability to regulators' (2000) 21(4) Company Lawyer 120
- 'Unfair credit relationships: five years on' (2012) 8 Journal of Business Law 713
- 'Education and the Sex Discrimination Act 1975'
- 'The enforcement of anti-discrimination law'
;Books
- The Law of Security and Title-Based Financing (2012) with H Beale, M Bridge and L Gullifer
- Modern Banking Law (5th edn OUP 2009) {{ISBN|0-19-825759-7}}{{Citation | last1=Ellinger | first1=E.P. | last2=Lomnnicka | first2=Eva Z. | name-list-style=amp | title=Ellinger & Lomnicka, Modern Banking Law | publisher=Oxford Clarendon Press | edition=3rd | year=1995 | id={{ASIN|0198257597|country=uk}} }} with EP Ellinger and C Hare
- The Law of Personal Property Security (2007) with H Beale, M Bridge and L Gullifer
;Practitioner guides
- Palmer's Company Law (25th edn Sweet & Maxwell 1991)
- Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Law (Sweet & Maxwell, 1987) {{ISBN|0-421-36880-2}}{{Citation | last1=Lomnicka | first1=Eva Z. | last2=Powel | first2=John L. | name-list-style=amp | title=Encyclopaedia of Financial Services Law | publisher=Sweet & Maxwell | year=1987 | id={{ASIN|0421368802|country=uk}} }}
- Encyclopaedia of Consumer Credit Law (Sweet & Maxwell 1975) {{ISBN|0-421-20810-4}}{{Citation | last1=Lomnicka | first1=Eva Z. | last2=Dobson | first2=Paul | last3=Thomas | first3=W.H. | last4=Ervine | first4=Cowan | name-list-style=amp | title=Encyclopaedia of Consumer Credit Law | publisher=Sweet & Maxwell | year=1975 | id={{ASIN|0421208104|country=uk}} }}
- The Financial Services and Markets Act: An Annotated Guide (Sweet & Maxwell 2002) {{ISBN|0-421-80000-3}}{{Citation | last1=Lomnnicka | first1=Eva Z. | title=The Financial Services and Markets Act: An Annotated Guide | publisher=Sweet & Maxwell | year=2002 | id={{ASIN|0421800003|country=uk}} }}
- Journal of Business Law (editor, Financial Services section) (Sweet & Maxwell)
See also
External links
- [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/law/about/people/academic/lomnicka Professor Eva Lomnicka, King's College London]
- [https://openlibrary.org/a/OL2669299A/Eva-Lomnicka Eva Lomnica, Open Library]
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Category:Academics of King's College London