Mr Ian Pickett
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Ian
Media
Books, multi-author books, manuals, educational materials, government reports, and company literature
Qualifications and awards
BA (Hons) Languages & Sociology
Barrister (Middle Temple, 1997)
Experience
Freelance since 2008
Training
Publishing Training Centre - Proofreading by Distance Learning (2008)
Proofreading for accreditation (SfEP) 2014
Copy Editing 1 (SfEP) 2018
Clients
Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Straive, Newgen, Bar Standards Board, Ofsted, Standards and Testing Agency
Subjects
Law (all areas: arbitration, civil procedure, commercial, company, contract, criminal, defamation, employment, environmental, European/EU, family, history of, human rights, international/comparative, jurisprudence, law reports, litigation, local government, maritime, police, disclosure, property, tables of cases/statutes), linguistics, management, philosophy (all), politics/government (all), social sciences (all), crime & criminology, sociology, education, psychology, religion
Featured
Ian has an honours degree in Languages and Sociology and holds the qualification of Barrister, having been called to the Bar in 1997 (Middle Temple).
A freelance proofreader and copy-editor, he specializes in law and academic titles and is involved in a wide variety of projects, working principally with two of the leading university presses. He is commissioned annually to conduct the legal checking of the Blackstones Series of police manuals together with the mock promotion and investigator examinations.
Ian handles a wide variety of academic subjects, applying practical knowledge from his professional and academic backgrounds.
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