EVENT: IALS – Scrutiny of terrorism laws: searchlight or veil?

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘Organised by the Statute Law Society (www.statutelawsociety.org) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Speakers: David Anderson QC, Brick Court Chambers and the Government’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.’

Date: 24th February 2014, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: UCL CLP – Charitable Purposes and Activities

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘When determining whether a civil society organisation has charitable status, the orthodox position has it that the activities carried on in pursuit of its purposes are not relevant, save in very limited circumstances. This lecture will consider the extent to which this is correct, and whether the reluctance to consider the nature of the activities carried on by a potential charity should be revisited in light of the regulatory consequences of charitable status, outside of which the legal definition of charity has no real meaning.’

Date: 6th February 2014, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Human Rights Lawyering in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Human Rights Lawyers and Access to Justice in England and Wales and Germany

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘The professional attitude towards promoting national and international justice differs strongly between English and German lawyers: In England and Wales, legal professionals are highly committed to providing free legal assistance to disadvantaged groups while in Germany there is a lack of legal practice of human rights law and defence of those in need. The seminar therefore aims to analyse under which prerequisites legal professionals are able and willing to practice human rights law and support the rights of those in need at domestic and international level from a comparative view.’

Date: 20th January 2014, 6.00-7.30pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

EVENT: UCL CLP – Mistaken Gifts after Pitt v Holt

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events, gifts by sally

‘The recent Supreme Court decision in Pitt v Holt [2013] UKSC 26 has put into sharp focus a question which has vexed English lawyers for some time: when can a donor recover a gift mistakenly made? Their Lordships ruled that there had to be a ‘causative mistake of sufficient gravity’. In the light of this ruling, the lecture will explore and try to systematise the principal competing approaches towards the recovery of mistaken gifts and to assess their underlying assumptions. How can we distinguish between mistakes which are sufficiently serious and those that are not, and what are the implications of Pitt v Holt for the law of gifts more generally? It will be argued that a pure causative mistake test may in fact be preferable to the two-stage inquiry adopted by Pitt v Holt. Properly handled, such a test could accommodate many of the concerns that often drive the call for an additional criterion of ‘sufficient gravity’.’

Date: 13th February 2014, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Ex post facto law

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘Organised by the Statute Law Society (www.statutelawsociety.org) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Speakers: Professor Neil Duxbury, London School of Economics.’

Date: 27th January 2014, 18.00-19.00

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: Gresham College – The Sanctity Of Life Law Has Gone Too Far

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘Professor Gillon would argue that the judgment in the case of a patient in prolonged and incurable ‘minimally conscious state’, that she must continue to be kept alive with artificial nutrition and hydration, despite the evidence from her loved ones that she would have rejected such treatment, manifests an excessive concern for the ‘sanctity of life’ and inadequate concern both for patients’ prior views values and autonomy and about the use of scarce health service resources on patients whose loved ones reliably report that they would have rejected those resources had they been able to do so.’

Date: 12th February 2014, 1.00pm

Location: Barnard’s Inn Hall

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Public order and emergency in Britain: the legality of military intervention, 1910-19

Posted December 12th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘Organised with the London Legal History Seminar.
Speaker: Patrick Graham, Queen Mary, Univeristy of London.’

Date: 24th January 2014, 18.00-19.30

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

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EVENT: UCL – Lunch Hour Lecture: Should we trust lawyers?

Posted December 5th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘Public trust in lawyers is on the decline. Some of this is inevitable: Hackgate, the financial scandal and Hillsborough have all involved lawyers at pivotal moments. But are lawyers just doing their jobs in these cases or crossing ethical boundaries? An analysis of professional rules, lawyer psychology and economics suggest lawyers need to do some work to rebuild trust and behave more professionally.’

Date: 4th February 2014, 13.15-13.55pm

Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: Gresham College – Criminal Minds

Posted December 5th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘What makes a criminal? Are they born or made? How do personality, social deprivation and upbringing affect criminality? Is crime due to economic need, a failure of conscience or a need for excitement?’

Date: 21st January 2014, 6:00pm

Location: Museum of London

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: UCL CLP – Exploring Solutions to a Persistent Legal Problem: Conceptualising the Rights of Children in Detention

Posted December 5th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘Children in detention are one of the most vulnerable groups in society, and their removal from the community and into the secure estate compounds the disadvantages that many of them have previously experienced. Rights can therefore take on even greater significance for this group. Over the past 15 years, children and their advocates have sought to use the law in an attempt to protect those rights and to bring about improvements in how children deprived of their liberty are treated. But there are limits to what has been achieved and the proposed changes to legal aid, judicial review and the possible repeal of the Human Rights Act are likely to present even greater hurdles for the realisation of the rights of detained children. This lecture will examine the developing law in this area and explore the extent to which the concepts of vulnerability and best interests have shaped the legal and human rights of children in custody. It will then go on to consider whether other concepts – including home, care and responsibility – could be better used in order to understand and secure the rights of children deprived of their liberty.’

Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 6:00 PM

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: Birkbeck – From Civil Partnership to Same-Sex Marriage 2004-2014: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Posted December 5th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘The Civil Partnership Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 are important legal, social and historical landmarks. For beyond their practical implications, same-sex relationship recognition, throughout the western world, has become a key site of political contestation rich in symbolic, material and cultural meanings. While fiercely opposed by many, within mainstream narratives they are often represented as a victory in a legal reform process that commenced with the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Yet, at the same time, for others they represent a problematic and ambivalent political engagement with the institution of marriage. Consequently, understood and labelled as ‘revolutionary’, ‘progressive’ and ‘conservative’ these reforms provide a space for thinking about issues that arguably affect everyone, regardless of sexual orientation or relationship status.’

Date: 17th-18th January 2014

Location: 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: UCL CLP – In support of an English Contract Code

Posted December 5th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

‘English contract law enjoys an enormous degree of rational strength, together with a practical and down-to-earth approach which is the envy of many civilian systems (and, of course, an attraction for business people for whom it exists). In doctrine and comprehensibility, however, its record is less impressive, as anyone will testify who has struggled to explain its workings in terms that make sense to a civilian audience. The aim of this lecture is to suggest that a codification of its rules from a purely English perspective would get rid of many of these difficulties, and would in addition avoid many of the problems inherent in proposals for a more or less pan-European codified contract law.’

Date: 16th January 2014, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: Politeia – What Future for Trial by Jury?

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“Trial by jury is widely seen as central to the UK’s justice system. But as the justice system faces new challenges, many will question whether the current system is still fit for purpose. Do today’s juries understand their task? Are they the most effective guarantor of justice?”

The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP is the Attorney General and Conservative MP for Beaconsfield.”

Date: 11th December 2013, 6.30-7.30 pm

Location: Royal Over-Seas League, Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James’s Street, London SW1A 1LR.

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Responsibility and Accountability in the Financial Sector

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“Keynote Speech by Professor Arthur Grimes: Micro-prudential settings and financial markets conduct regulations are important in controlling risk within any country – no matter how well or poorly performing its macroeconomy. In an environment of pervasive information asymmetries, an unfettered market can lead to socially sub-optimal risk-taking. Some restrictions on financial market participants’ activities and disclosure requirements are therefore required. However, adoption of policies that make the financial markets appear low risk, or even risk free, to uninformed participants can result in moral hazard that may produce even less stable outcomes than in a free market. Drawing on New Zealand’s relatively light-handed approach to financial market regulation, this lecture examines whether the GFC and other crises are caused not by too little regulation, but instead by too much.”

Date: 3rd December 2013, 3.00-7.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: UCL – Private Equity and Hedge Funds after the Global Financial Crisis

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“As the recession stutters onwards systemic and structural causes for the financial crash continue to dominate international news and debate. Never has there been such an appetite and desire to understand the financial institutions that govern us. But despite public interest, alternative investment vehicles such as private equity and hedge funds remain elusive. Both have always had a unique position in the market, designed as they are to function outside of the rules that govern other financial organizations. But what is it that they do and – significantly – how is it that they have prospered since the 2008 meltdown despite the introduction of new regulatory regimes?”

Date: 27th November 2013, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws – Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Whatever happened to the European Arrest Warrant?

Posted November 20th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“The Home Secretary proposes opting out and then back to the EAW, but not the one we know. The Croatians don’t want to use it either and the new Forum Bar (in force 14.10.13) will change it; as will the latest Anti Social, Crime & Policing Bill currently before Parliament. Find out what exactly is going on, and how it will affect existing Extradition arrangements.”

Date: 9th December 2013, 3.00 – 18:30

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – Historicising Criminal Responsibility: Mapping the Legal and Scholarly Terrain

Posted November 6th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“Criminal responsibility is now the focus of a rich socio-historical scholarly discussion. Working within that tradition, and with a focus on twentieth century developments, this paper seeks to sketch out some of the major legal developments, setting them against broader social changes in responsibility practices.”

Date: 21st November 2013, 6.00-9.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

EVENT: The Law Society – Best practice debate: Experts and lawyers discussion

Posted November 6th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“After the sell out success of this event in May 2013 we are repeating this special evening at the Law Society. The debate will bring together some of the UKs most prominent lawyers and experienced experts in a discursive forum to discuss best practice.

EWI Governor and renowned expert Chris Easton will chair the panel along with EWI Governor and Forensic Accountant Kay Linnell. Special addresses will be given by Paul Garlick QC Barrister at Furnival Chambers. Also delivering an address will be Catherine Leech, partner in the Serious Injury Team at Pannone LLP. Together they lead the discussion providing advice and guidance on the following:

How lawyers choose an expert
What lawyers expect from experts
Deciding between two experts or an SJE
Terms and conditions of engagement
Expert’s meetings
Case management
Hot-tubbing
Impact of the Jackson Reforms
Fee level assessments and Legal Aid funding”

Date: 19th November 2013, 6.30-9.00pm

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

Charge: EWI Members: £60, Law Society Section Members: £60, Non-members: £70

More information can be found here.

EVENT: IALS – “Respect for law and sausages”: how Parliament made section 31 of the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 on the sale of employment rights

Posted November 6th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“Annual SLS Lord Renton Lecture.
Speaker: Lord Pannick QC”

Date: 28th November 2013, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

EVENT: The Law Society – Public debate series: Protecting diversity: belief, conscience and the new definition of marriage

Posted November 6th, 2013 in Forthcoming events by sally

“The coalition government has announced an intention to review civil partnerships, changed the law on gay marriage and introduced tax breaks for married couples.

The shifting landscape of marriage and civil partnerships means the current protections for diversity, belief and conscience in the state’s definition of marriage is changing.

Our high-profile panel will discuss ‘Protecting diversity – belief, conscience and the state’s new definition of marriage’.”

CPD hours 1.5

Date: 12th November 2013, 6.00-8.45pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.