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St. John Bates established the St John Bates Consultancy after an extensive career in teaching EU and UK law and as a parliamentary and legal adviser.After reading law at Cambridge, St. John taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Sussex and Edinburgh before being appointed as the first John Millar Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. He was later appointed Clerk of Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man), Secretary of the House of Keys and Counsel to the Speaker.
He continued a part-time academic career, and is currently a Visiting Professor, and the Director of the Centre for Legislative and Parliamentary Studies, at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland where he teaches courses in public and commercial law, an Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London and a Visiting Professor at the Isle of Man International Business School.
St. John is a specialist in training legislative drafting and statutory interpretation, having given training courses for government lawyers in various countries on the subject, as well as university courses, for over thirty years. He is the editor of the Statute Law Review, which is the leading journal in the field published by Oxford University Press. He is also is a member of the Commonwealth Association of Legislative Counsel, of the Council of the Statute Law Society in the U.K. and of the Board of the European Association of Legislation.
St. John is widely experienced in parliamentary affairs. He spent fourteen years as the senior officer of Tynwald immediately before establishing the Consultancy. He has also been a specialist adviser to what is now the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Union, a member of the advisory committee on the drafting of the initial Standing Orders of the Scottish Parliament, and a procedural adviser to a large number of other parliaments.
St. John is also a non-executive director of a number of commercial companies.
