“The Annual Bar Conference 2013 provides an essential opportunity to learn and discuss key issues affecting careers, opportunities and life at the Bar.”
Date: Saturday 2nd November 2013
Location: Westminster Park Plaza
Charge: See website for fee categories
More information can be found here.
“The annual JUSTICE Human Rights Law Conference is the acknowledged forum for ensuring delegates are fully up to date with developments.
It covers the key areas of human rights law and provides an update on pertinent legislative and case-law developments across the field, including jurisprudence from domestic and European courts as relevant.
Major areas covered are:
The application of human right law from a judge’s perspective – keynote speech from Mrs Justice (Laura) Cox
A human rights review of the year – all major legislative and case-law developments from leading practitioner Helen Mountfield QC
Human rights, democracy and judicial independence – an analysis from Professor Robert Hazell of the UCL Constitution Unit, followed by wider discussion with panel of leading politicians.”
Date: 24th October 2013, 9.30am-5.00pm
Location: Bloomsbury Hotel, 16 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3NN
Charge: See website for details
More information can be found here.
“This seminar will provide a timely opportunity to consider the future of legal education and training in England and Wales, and is scheduled as legal regulators and policymakers respond to the recently published Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) final report.”
This event is CPD certified.
Date: Tuesday, 8th October 2013
Location: Central London
Charge: £190 plus VAT
More information can be found here.
“A female teacher who had an affair with a teenage pupil has been spared jail after she claimed the affair was over – despite being spotted with him just two days ago.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A TV ad for soft drink Irn-Bru featuring a mother showing off her ‘push-up’ bra to her son’s teenage friends has escaped a ban despite attracting more than 170 complaints.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provision) Order 2013
The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Capacity, Registration, Prescribed Forms, etc.) (England) Regulations 2013
The Reservoirs Act 1975 (Referees) (Appointment, Procedure and Costs) (England) Rules 2013
The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills (No. 6) Order 2013
The Bathing Water Regulations 2013
Source: www.legislation.gov.uk
“An advocacy group for stalking victims in England and Wales – the first of its kind – is to be launched later.”
BBC News, 11th July 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A roundtable meeting took place yesterday at the House of Commons, speakers included Andy Slaughter MP, Sadiq Khan MP, Emily Thornberry MP, Lord Willy Bach and Jeremy Beecham. Gemma Blythe reports.”
LegalVoice, 10th July 2013
Source: www.legalvoice.org.uk
The Court of Appeal has refused to quash an order preventing two Saudi princes from having their case heard behind closed doors.
The Lawyer, 10th July 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The charity created following the sale of the College of Law last year has today announced its first grants, with access to justice, the profession and education the focus.”
Legal Futures, 10th July 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
“As Chris Knight reported this morning, judgment has been handed down in R (Evans) v HM Attorney General [2013] EWHC 1960 (Admin). The Upper Tribunal had ordered disclosure of certain correspondence between Prince Charles and government ministers (termed ‘advocacy correspondence’). The government – the Attorney General specifically – exercised the power of veto under section 53 of FOIA. The requester, Guardian journalist Rob Evans, brought judicial review proceedings. The Administrative Court dismissed his claim.”
Panopticon, 10th July 2013
Source: www.panopticonblog.com
“Dr Karen Broadhurst of Manchester University explains the findings of a recently completed pilot involving family court advisers in public law pre-proceedings practice.”
Family Law Week, 10th July 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“Law is everywhere providing answers to almost everything. Ever larger numbers of students want to be part of the legal mechanisms that control us, regulate us and take over from politicians when politicians sense their own incapability. It is almost a new religion. In this lecture – and in the discussion to follow – some of the issues dealt with in earlier years by Professor Bogdanor will be reviewed as will the effect of Europe on our law.”
Date: Wednesday 4th December 2013, 6.00pm
Location: Barnard’s Inn Hall
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
Supreme Court, 10th July 2013
Supreme Court, 10th July 2013
“Police use of Taser is often in the media. Unfortunately, some of the reporting and commentary is inaccurate and misleads the public. Reports of this nature are damaging because they needlessly undermine confidence in the police and do not acknowledge or understand the reason for Taser use.”
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly, 10th July 2013
Source: www.criminallawandjustice.co.uk
“A lack of resources is severely damaging the Crown Prosecution Service’s preparation of cases for court, according to a critical report by the organisation’s statutory watchdog.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The European court’s controversial ruling on the Jeremy Bamber case could open the floodgates for hundreds of killers to launch legal challenges on the grounds their sentences are unfair, leading human rights experts have said.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th July 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, is to launch an inquiry into why police forces are reporting fewer cases of rape, domestic violence and child abuse than they were two years ago.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A teenager who murdered a promising A-level student as he tried to recover a stolen smartphone has been jailed for a minimum of 13 years.”
The Guardian, 10th July 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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