Deveral is the Dean of Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University. He is a barrister and legal academic and has taught extensively across undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional courses, publishing widely on legal education, legal skills, and eCommerce law. He is a door tenant at Trinity Chambers and has practiced both civil and criminal law.
With over 30 years in Higher Education, Deveral has played a key role in shaping the way all lawyers are trained. He served on the steering panel for the landmark Legal Education and Training Review and was a member of the Bar Standards Board’s Future Bar Training Programme Board. He helped develop the new syllabuses and assessment strategies for all bar courses introduced in 2020 and led the review examining whether European Law should be a requirement of bar training post-Brexit. He is currently working on a project reviewing the delivery of advocacy and negotiation skills training for pupillage.
An expert in Quality Assurance, Deveral has extensive experience as an external examiner and member of institutional panels for the Solicitors Regulation Authority and Bar Standards Board. He served as deputy chair for the QAA subject benchmark statement review for law and recently retired as the Honorary Treasurer of the Committee of Heads of University Law Schools (CHULS).
