Rosemarie Everton obituary

When, in 1998, my friend Rosemarie Everton was appointed to the UK’s first ever chair in fire law, at the University of Central Lancashire, it marked the culmination of a 40-year endeavour on her part to establish the study of fire safety law as a serious subject of intellectual pursuit in the UK. Most importantly the recognition afforded by the chair confirmed this strand of jurisprudence as a legal discipline worthy of independent study.At that time of her appointment, the Fire Precautio