Category: Forthcoming events

“Proceedings in the Supreme Court are already televised, and broadcasting of other courts is imminent. Courts dealing with families have become more open after journalistic campaigns. Defendants and witnesses in some proceedings and courts martial are identified only by initials, and sexual assault witnesses and children are anonymous, while those charged are named upon arrest. Some witnesses testify behind screens, and the face of a defendant in a criminal case was covered for most of the trial. Magistrates complain that minor offences are increasingly dealt with by administrative cautions rather than proceedings in open court. Meanwhile, in the United States secret rulings by secret courts have extended electronic surveillance. Was Bentham right that ‘Where there is no publicity there is no justice’?”

Date: 25th November 2013, 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.

“Special Guest Speaker Michael Caplan QC will trace the position both here and elsewhere and give his views on this emotional and controversial subject.”

Date: Monday 25th November 2013, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Central London venue

Charge: £15 per delegate, £10 UKAJLJ members or if you are retired, £5 students/trainees

More information can be found here.

“The Trustees of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) are delighted to announce that the Second Annual BAILII Lecture will be given by Professor Alan Paterson OBE, the 2010 Hamlyn lecturer, on the topic of ‘Decision-making in the UK’s top court’.

The lecture will coincide with the launch of Professor Paterson’s new book entitled Final Judgment: The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court (Hart Publishing, 2013) which is based on interviews with over 40 Law Lords and Justices of the UK Supreme Court.

Lord Neuberger, the President of the Supreme Court will provide a brief introduction to the lecture and launch of the book.”

Date: Monday 9th December 2013, 5:30pm

Location: Freshfields, 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HT

Charge: Free, advance registration essential

More information can be found here.

“Statute Law Society Annual Conference: Statute Law and Alternative Solutions: Codification, Restatement, Common Law

The speakers and topics are as follows:

Prof Andrew Burrows QC: Restatements and Judicial Law Reform;
Prof Ian Dennis: Is there still a case for codifying the law and, if there is, what might a modern Evidence Code look like?;
Dr Deirdre Ahern: Codification of Company Law;
Prof Hugh Beale QC: The European Contract Law Project: the drafting challenges;
Prof Robert Hazell: The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 and its consequences.

Chairs:

Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls and President of the Statute Law Society;
Lord Justice Lloyd Jones, Chairman of the Law Commission.”

Date: 15th November 2013

Location: House of Parliament, London SW1

Charge: Statute Law Society Member – £110. Academic/Retired – £70. Student/Pupil – £35.

More information can be found here.

“The Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) published in June 2013 is the most comprehensive review of legal and education and training for over 40 years. Did you know that amongst its key findings was that policy development is seriously inhibited by a lack of research in key areas of legal education? The Review is but the first stage of a review process, so you can make your mark by developing projects that are both needed and will have impact.”

Date: 13th November 2013, 12.30-4.30pm

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

Charge: £40

More information can be found here.

“Judicial review faces an uncertain future. The government’s proposed reforms in this area – not least, restricting who may bring a claim – are attracting controversy. Our new report takes a step back from the heat of that debate to illuminate the broader picture from a constitutional perspective. What are the constitutional implications of attempts by the executive to limit the ability of individuals or organisations to challenge its decisions – and the power of the courts to rule on the lawfulness of its actions? What is the impact on the rule of law and the relationship between institutions of state? What are the potential consequences of altering the constitutional balance between our judges and Parliament? And why is this issue so important to the government, to Parliament and to lawyers?”

Date: Tuesday 19th November 2013, 6.15pm

Location: The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

“The seminars will provide an authoritative and concise overview of the year’s most significant legal developments and will clearly set out their impact on the areas of law under discussion.

At each seminar, the two speakers will be Professor Charles Mitchell (an author of Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment and Underhill and Hayton: Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees) and Professor Ben McFarlane (an author of The Structure of Property Law and Land Law: Text, Cases and Materials).”

1.5 CPD hours

Date: Unjust Enrichment – 4th December 2013, 6.00-7.30pm

Land Law and Trusts – 11th December 2013, 6.00-7.30pm

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

Charge: Single seminar: £100. Both seminars: £160.

More information can be found here.

“Both our common law constitution and human rights law treat liberty as a central value. Yet, immigration detention remains less constrained, both normatively and institutionally, than other forms of detention. International human rights bodies and courts, and indeed domestic courts, routinely review and indeed sometimes condemn detention of migrants. Yet, that jurisprudence has been subject to a convincing critique, for failing to properly scrutinise the necessity of immigration detention. Many scholars have thus pointed out the law’s anomalously indulgent approach to immigration detention, compared with other forms of deprivation of liberty. Yet, powerful as this critique is, it sometimes fails to address prior questions concerning the political purposes and legal grounds of detention. By examining these grounds and purposes, both legitimate and illegitimate, the lecture will aim to elucidate the manner in which immigration law produces reasons to detain, and thwarts any test of necessity from effectively constraining the state’s power to detain migrants. The diverse approaches of the UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union will be contrasted. The likely impact of new EU norms on detention of asylum-seekers and pre-removal detention will also be explored.”

Date: Thursday 21st November 2013, 6.00-7.00pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Social media has revolutionised the way we interact with each other and is increasingly being used by law firms and lawyers to communicate with their clients.

This seminar will explore how social media can assist with business development and how the personal brand of an individual solicitor can complement that of their firm’s. It will also promote discussion around core issues, including reputation management and ethics.

This will be an interactive seminar and you will be encouraged to tweet questions to the speakers at the end of each session.”

CPD hours 3.5

Date: 4th December 2013, 12.30-4.50pm

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

Charge: See website of details

More information can be found here.

“Of all areas of law, it is property – particularly as it relates to housing and home – that affects people most consistently and directly. Yet, while people are intensely interested in property, property – broadly understood as the laws, doctrines and policies that govern the acquisition, accumulation, management and transfer of resources – does not appear to reciprocate. This lecture explores how the traditional methodologies of property law scholarship – centred on the status quo of established rights, obligations and duties, and invoking the ‘property values’ of certainty, autonomy, efficiency – marginalise the human ‘subjects’ of the property system. The lecture seeks to raise questions concerning the role of property law and property scholarship: is it to understand and make the best out of the available material; to achieve change in a progressive (or progressive but incremental) way; or to contribute to, or at least not to prevent, progress towards greater substantive equality between property’s ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’? In exploring these questions, the lecture reflects on the hidden politics of property discourse and its impact on the (in)visibility of the property outsider’s human experience within legal analyses, arguments and decision-making. Finally, this analysis is related to a series of ‘property problems’ in which ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ compete for ownership or access to resources, with the aims of considering an alternative approach to problem-based property scholarship that starts from the person rather than the law, and reflecting on the implications of this approach for normative arguments invoking ‘property’s values’.”

Date: Thursday 5th December 2013, 6.00-7.00pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’, wrote Santayana at the dawn of the twentieth century. And indeed, throughout history, politicians and policy-makers have — more or less self-consciously — turned to the lessons of their nation’s past to shape their judgement and inform their decision making. I shall be asking the question, ‘Is this a strategy which can be followed today?’ when the boundaries of nationhood are giving way to global histories and narratives in which forgetting is as important as remembering.”

Date: Tuesday 19th November 2013, 6.00-8.15pm

Location: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Campus, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“UCL is hosting a symposium on the occasion of the re-publication of Hersch Lauterpacht’s An International Bill of Rights of Man, with an Introduction by Professor Philippe Sands, UCL,
published by Oxford University Press

The symposium will have the participation of
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC CBE

And contributions from:
Lord Faulks QC
(1 Chancery Lane)
Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws QC
(Labour Member, House of Lords)
Lord McNally
(Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords)
Stuart Wheeler
(Treasurer, United Kingdom Independence Party)

Chaired by
Professor Philippe Sands QC
(UCL / Matrix Chambers)”

Date: Thursday 31st October 2013, 6.30-7.30pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Halsbury’s Law Exchange has assembled a panel of great experience and distinction to discuss ethical practice in arbitration.

Speaking at this event:

Khawar Qureshi QC (Chair) – Barrister at Serle Court

Gary Born – Partner at WilmerHale

Cyrus Benson – Gibson Dunn

Hilary Heilbron QC – Brick Court Chambers

Points for discussion include:

Are the existing professional codes or conduct or institutional rules sufficient?
Are there any reasons why arbitrators should not be able to sanction parties and Counsel who behave improperly?
What are the main issues which require further regulation (if any) and how – by code/guidance or court and arbitral decisions?”

Date: Monday 18 November 2013, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, The Old Hall, London WC2A 3TL

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Contemporary jurisprudence – and legal scholarship and legal education more generally – is currently under serious challenge from the emergence of arguably new legal phenomena at the non-state or transnational level. This challenge is both substantive and methodological. Substantively, legal scholars are being confronted with, and asked to explain, phenomena which cannot easily be explained by theories which put the sovereign state at the centre. Such phenomena include internet regulation and the new lex mercatoria. New jurisprudential problems are also raised by the growth of transnational communities, which bring with them a variety of different legal traditions and understandings. Methodologically, in this context, traditional conceptual analysis is arguably ever more in need of being informed by empirical analysis – for the old concepts, and their universalistic tendencies, are being criticised as inadequate.”

Date: 8th-9th November 2013, 9.00-5.00pm

Location: Arts Two Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Charge: See website for details.

More information can be found here.

“This year, the Inner Temple will be holding a CPD day for practitioners from the New Practitioner stage and beyond, providing Advocacy Training for Barristers working with Vulnerable Witnesses. The keynote address will be given by The Rt Hon Lady Justice Hallett DBE.

This full day of practical training will be taught by the Inner Temple’s experienced advocacy trainers and will provide attendees with an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses played by professional actors.

This course is open to barristers of all four Inns who are new practitioner level or above. The skills which will be taught, whilst of particular interest to criminal practitioners, will also be useful to barristers in other practice areas working with vulnerable witnesses and those requiring interpretation.”

6 CPD Hours

Date: Saturday 23 November 2013

Location: Inner Temple, London EC4Y 7HL

Charge: £125 (including lunch)

More information can be found here.

“This year’s line-up of speakers includes alumni from the UK and all over the world. More information can be found in the event Tax Conference Programme.”

Date: 24th-25th October 2013, 9.00-5.00pm

Location & Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

“National Pro Bono Week 2013 will be officially launched with an interactive debate on pro bono.

Organised by the National Pro Bono Centre in association with the All Party Parliamentary Group on Pro Bono, an expert panel will take questions from attendees on the evolving role of pro bono in England and Wales.

The panel chaired by the Attorney General’s Envoy, Mike Napier CBE, QC is:

• Gillian Guy, chief executive, Citizens Advice
• Sejal Karavadra, head of immigration, DBS Law Ltd
• Jessica Lee MP, chair, All Party Parliamentary Group on Pro Bono
• Jon Robins, editor, The Justice Gap
• Lord Low of Dalston CBE
• Andy Slaughter MP, Shadow Justice Minister.”

Date: 4th November 2013, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Portcullis House, Westminster

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Whether it is a dispute in cross-border trade between businesses, a consumer buying goods over the internet who encounters a problem or an accident abroad, EU civil justice measures are of relevance to all practitioners dealing with civil litigation and dispute resolution.

This event is designed to update you on key developments that you need to be aware of. We will cover:

important changes soon to be introduced to the Brussels I Regulation;
new ADR options for businesses and consumers;
latest developments on collective redress;
upcoming reform of the European small claims procedure;
next steps on the Common European Sales Law and in EU consumer law.

With a range of leading panelists, the event is designed to inform but also to inspire discussion as to what changes solicitors would like to see in the future.”

CPD hours 2

Date: 30th October 2013, 1.45-5.15pm

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

Charge: See website for details.

More information can be found here.

“This paper addresses the office of the jurisprudent and the role of jurisprudence in the characterisation of the lawful relations of those engaged in assisted dying under medical supervision. Over the last forty years the juristic and jurisprudential representation of medical and healthcare law has developed into a distinct academic project, yet, for many, it does not provide an adequate juridical account of the assisted dying. Perhaps this should be no surprise since the question of how someone might die lawfully, or die well, before the common law is contested with great intensity. A number of answers as to why such disputes continue can be clearly stated in disciplines outside of law. However it is often hard to give proper shape to the jurisprudential questions at issue. In reflecting on this situation, I would like to return the jurisprudence of assisted dying to the understanding of the office of the jurisprudent. Whilst the concerns of office are not always treated as bearing much weight of meaning, the language and ethics of office, I will argue, does provide an important way of understanding how the dignities, jurisdictions, duties, privileges and rights of public and institutional life are assumed and performed. It also provides a distinct form of evaluation. Locating the responsibilities of the office of the jurisprudent provides one way of coming to terms with how jurisprudents and citizens might care for the conduct and commitments of lawful relations.

In this seminar, I would like to take up the challenges to office raised in the recent case of Nicklinson, R (on the application of) v A Primary Care Trust [2013] EWCA Civ 961 (31 July 2013). I present an argument here for treating jurisprudence both as a training in a conduct of office and as a discourse addressing the conduct of a lawful life. The focus of this paper lies on the commitments of office and ethic of responsibility that shape state-centred civil jurisprudence and the responsibilities of jurisprudents in considering the conduct of lawful relations subject to civil authority.”

Date: 11th November 2013, 6.00pm

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.

“A One-day conference organised by the Society of Legal Scholars in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies:

Keynote Speaker: Professor William Twining, Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence, UCL will speak on “The Role of Academics in Legal Education and Training”.

After the keynote address, there will be discussion groups on some of the main recommendations of the LETR Report led by representatives of the academic associations in Law – ALT, CHULS, SLS and SLSA. Conference participants will have ample opportunity to express their views on the LETR recommendations and the future direction of academic legal education, and these will be fed back to the academic associations in Law to inform their consideration of the LETR Report.

The day will end with a panel discussion on the future role of academics in legal education and training: confirmed participants include:

Professor Chris Ashford, Executive Committee Member, SLSA;
Professor Stephen Bailey, President, Society of Legal Scholars;
Professor Anthony Bradney, SLS Legal Education Committee member;
Professor Jane Ching, member of the LETR Research Team;
Professor Rebecca Huxley Binns, Chair, Association of Law Teachers;
Professor Andrew Sanders, Chair Committee of Heads of university Law School;
Chair: Professor Fiona Cownie, SLS Legal Education Committee Chair.”

Date: 30th October 2013, 10.30-16.30pm

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

Charge: £45.00 to include refreshments and lunch.

More information can be found here.