Rachel Burnett is a retired solicitor who was an expert on English information technology law.
After obtaining a degree in sociology at the University of Exeter, she worked in a range of IT roles including systems analysis and development, and project management.
[1] During this time she studied law via distance learning[1] and in 1985 she became a partner in an early IT legal practice.
She was an associate lecturer with the Law Programme at the Open University for ten years.
Burnett writes a blog for the London Branch of the International Wine and Food Society, of which she is a committee member.