Alan Hyman

Alan Hyman is a leading academic in the field of property law in the United Kingdom and a key advisor to the Department for Communities and Local Government (previously the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister). Hyman grew up in St Albans, Hertfordshire and studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he first grew to love property law. Hyman is an expert in both Scottish and English property law and now lectures at the University of Hull.

Hyman has been a key advisor to the Blair and Brown governments since 1999 and he is considered responsible for the introduction of the Land Registration Act 2002, which fundamentally changed the landscape of English property law. In particular, Hyman is seen as being responsible for rewriting the law on adverse possession ( rights). Hyman was lampooned in the British press for introducing these changes because it was alleged that he himself had lived in a number of squats during the early 1980s.

Hyman is currently leading the government's public consultation process on proposed changes to the system of planning law in England and Wales.

Hyman was employed in the mid-1990s as a script consultant for BBC2 television drama This Life. This life ran for 32 episodes and focused on the lives of a group of twenty-something lawyers who lived and worked in London. Hyman was drafted in by the producers of the drama to ensure the legal aspects of the script were factually accurate.

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