Month: January 2016

‘Professor Anthony David, Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Vice Dean Academic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London will give the fourth in The John Toulmin Lecture in Law and Psychiatry lecture series.The series was set up following a gift by John and Carolyn Toulmin to the College with the aim of establishing a collaborative relationship between the College’s Dickson Poon School of Law and the College’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

Tony David graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He also has a Masters degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology. He has been an honorary consultant at the Maudsley since 1990 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London in 1996. He was appointed Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the IoPPN in 2013.

Professor David has a wide and diverse range of research interests including schizophrenia, neuropsychiatry, medically unexplained syndromes and neuroimaging – both structural and functional. He is especially interested in the concept of insight in schizophrenia and how this relates to treatment compliance and decision making capacity. Professor David is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and a founder member of both the British Neuropsychological Society and British Neuropsychiatry Association and was Chairman to the latter from 2004-7.

Professor David is editor of the journal “Cognitive Neuropsychiatry” and has co-edited several books including, The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry (2003) with T Kircher, and Insight and Psychosis (2nd Ed) (2004) with X Amador and Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry (2009). He is author of over 500 publications in peer reviewed medical and scientific journals.’

Date: 23rd March 2016, 6.30-7.30pm

Location: Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College, London WC2R 2LS

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Proportionality is a distinctively legal concept. It figures prominently in criminal law, where it speaks to doctrinal questions such as the appropriate degree of the severity of punishment and the limits of using force in self-defense.

It also plays an important role in war law, qualifying principles of jus ad bellum and jus in bello. But perhaps its lead role is to be found in constitutional law.

In Europe and other parts of the world, courts use it as a test for determining whether someone’s fundamental rights have been violated.

In this lecture Professor Letsas argues that proportionality is neither a form of cost-benefit analysis, nor is it about the balancing of all pertinent moral reasons.

He defends instead the view that the different uses of proportionality in law express the same moral concern, a concern that is self-standing in some appropriate sense, in that it exists independently of the law.

The moral dimension of proportionality lies in the distinct normative roles we play while engaging in different practices, and the sub-set of moral reasons that define these roles.’

This event is accredited with 1 CPD hour with the SRA and BSB

Date: 17th March 2016, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘The work discussed in this lecture is part of a much larger, book-length project titledCriminalizing Sex: A Unified Theory. Although the incidence of voyeurism and indecent exposure is relatively low compared to other sexual offences, both crimes raise important questions about the proper scope of the criminal law in a liberal society, the resolution of competing rights to sexual autonomy, and the nature of privacy rights in our digital age.

This lecture will consider four basic points: First, the wrongs entailed by voyeurism and indecent exposure are in some sense reciprocal. The former involves a violation of the victim’s right to exclude others from her private sexual domain; the latter involves a violation of the victim’s right not to be included in the private sexual domain of others. Second, the harms entailed by both voyeurism and indecent exposure are often elusive. While the exhibitionist typically intends to cause shock or dismay in his victim through his exposure, the voyeur normally intends that his victim will be unaware of his act. Any harm that results from either offence is at most psychological and, in the case of voyeurism, often lacking entirely. Third, while the “offence” caused by voyeurism is relatively straightforward, the offense caused by indecent exposure is more contested, more sensitive to cultural variation and individual tolerances, and more likely to vary depending on the specific purposes for which such conduct is performed. Finally, the means by which a potential victim of voyeurism or indecent exposure loses her right not to be exposed to such conduct are quite different from the means by which a potential victim loses her right not to be raped or sexually assaulted. There is no requirement that the potential victim must give her voluntary consent; it is normally sufficient that she assume the risk of exposure.’

Date: 15th March 2016, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics and Political Science, Clement House, London WC2A 2AE

Charge: Free

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‘Judge Rosas will hold a conversation about his role as a Judge of the European Court of Justice, a position which he has held since 2002, with Professor Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at City Law School.’

Date: 10th February 2016, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Room A130, College Building , London

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘Join us for Europe’s first Law Tech Hackathon ‘coding for good’. We met Hackney Law Centre in 2015 and realised that they had the most embracing, innovative culture of any law firm in London, we wanted to help.

Hackney Community Law Centre is an amazing charity employing solicitors and paralegals to provide free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and neighbouring boroughs.’

Date: 18th-19th March 2016, 7.00-10.00pm

Location: Campus London, a Google space – 4-5 Bonhill Street Shoreditch EC2A 4BX GB

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Open to students and graduates interested in discovering more about life at the Bar, the UK’s largest National Pupillage Fair is the best opportunity for students looking for pupillage to meet representatives from chambers, course providers and other organisations essential to a successful career at the Bar.’

Date: 5th March 2016, 10.30am-3.00pm

Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘The trial of the Mangrove Nine in 1970 represents a high point of the Black Panther movement in the UK and stands as a watershed moment for black activism in the struggle against institutionalised police prejudice. But what prompted the backlash of black British people against law enforcement? This talk will explore and contextualise the mounting racial tensions that sparked one of the most important show trials of the 20th century.’

Date: 28th January 2016, 7.00-8.00pm

Location: The National Archives – Bessant Drive. Kew. Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU GB

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘People are social beings. We wrong a person as a social being when we deny her adequate access to decent human contact. We also wrong her as a social being when we deny her the chance to contribute socially.

This lecture explores this second type of wrong, which we can call social contribution injustice.

The obvious victims of social contribution injustice are the people we deem to be socially useless or threatening. Offenders are a paradigm example.

This lecture applies an analysis of social contribution injustice to our standard practices of punishment to expose the many ways that we wrong offenders as social beings.’

This event is accredited with 1 CPD hour with the SRA and BSB

Date: 28th January 2016, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘The celebrated novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones will talk with Ruth Herz about his recent acclaimed book Kid Gloves. In this book, which Mars-Jones calls a voyage around his father, he considers the formidable figure of Sir William the High Court judge in his professional role, as well as the man, the husband, the father, and the head of a family, weaving in his own personal memories of family life at the Gray’s Inn flat.’

Date: 22nd January 2016, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Room CLO 306, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck University of London

Charge: Free, booking required

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’15 April 1989: an inescapable crush on the terraces at Hillsborough Stadium at an FA Cup Semi-Final led to the deaths of 96 men, women and children. Hundreds of Liverpool fans were injured, thousands traumatised. Throughout the investigations and inquiries, those who died and survived were vilified amid police allegations of drunkenness, violence, criminal and abusive behaviour. The families’ unrelenting campaign for truth recovery led to disclosure of all existing documents to an Independent Panel. Its definitive report revealed institutional mendacity, corrupted evidence and partial investigation. This brought an unreserved Government apology, an ongoing criminal investigation into all agencies involved and an unprecedented IPCC investigation into 2,000 police officers. It also led to new inquests, commencing March 2014 through to 2016. Author of the highly acclaimed Hillsborough: The Truth, Phil Scraton, Professor of Criminology, Queen’s University, headed the Panel’s research and was primary author of its report. He has also been advisor to the families’ legal teams throughout the inquests. In this talk he reflects on the long-term campaign for truth, details the Panel’s extensive findings and analyses the new inquests and their outcome. Finally, he examines the impact of his critical research and truth recovery for challenging institutional injustice and holding State institutions to account.’

Date: 17th March 2016, 6.00-7.30pm

Location: UCL Anatomy B15

Charge: Free, booking required

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‘Ruth Herz will talk to Hilary Heilbron about her mother, Dame Rose Heilbron, a world famous icon of the 1950s and 1960s. Hilary’s biography charts her mother’s successful legal career, and how as a working wife and mother, she navigated her way to an isolated position of female seniority in a stoically masculine field. Rose Heilbron was the first woman Judge in England in 1956, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the second woman to be appointed a High Court judge. ‘

Date: 19th February 2016, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Clore Management Centre, Room CLO 203

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.