Sir Brian Leveson: Security and Justice – Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

‘Sir Brian Leveson, President of the Queen’s Bench Division gave the 13th Annual Isaiah Berlin Lecture in London on 12 November 2015.’

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Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 13th November 2015

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

Law Lecture Series 2015-16: An Introduction by Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC – Gresham College

Posted October 1st, 2015 in barristers, lectures, news by sally

‘As he starts his final year as the Gresham Professor of Law, Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC looks to discuss the issues that are nearest to his heart. In this series of interviews, the professor lays out the themes that he will be tackling and explains why they are important to him and to the world at large.
This year’s lectures promise to be intellectually stimulating, making them a must watch for anyone with an interest in the modern world’s legal systems. The Full Series will be called: ‘Law and Lawyers -not all Bad?”

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Gresham College, 25th September 2015

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

Harbour Lecture by Lord Justice Jackson: Confronting Costs Management – Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Posted May 15th, 2015 in case management, costs, lectures by tracey

‘Harbour Lecture by Lord Justice Jackson: Confronting Costs Management.’

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Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 14th May 2015

Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk

The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution – Lecture by Lady Hale

The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution (PDF)

Lecture by Lady Hale

The Bryce Lecture, 5th February 2015

Source: www.supremecourt.uk

Human Rights and the Common Law – Where Next after Kennedy v the Charity Commission? The Jan Grodecki Lecture 2014

Posted November 12th, 2014 in human rights, lectures by tracey

‘Human Rights and the Common Law – Where Next after Kennedy v the Charity Commission? The Jan Grodecki Lecture 2014 by Michael Tugendhat at the University of Leicester School of Law on 23rd October, 2014.’

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University of Leicester, 23rd October 2014

Source: www.le.ac.uk

Advocacy – ‘as if’ the Person Represented, or ‘for’ the Person Represented? – Gresham College

Posted March 21st, 2014 in advocacy, barristers, lectures, legal education by sally

‘UK lawyers used to think that advocacy was a God–given art. In the last 20 years – not more – they have discovered how to train advocacy, applying skills acquired from jurisdictions around the world. Analysis of how advocacy really works benefits from looking back at earlier periods, and then looking forward to today and beyond asking whether advocacy is for establishing the truth and whether the advocate is as if the person represented or simply advocating to win on the client’s behalf at almost any cost. This lecture may include practical demonstrations of examples of advocacy and may involve active engagement with the audience – if willing!’

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Gresham College, 5th March 2014

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

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

Posted February 26th, 2014 in assisted suicide, Court of Protection, euthanasia, lectures, medical treatment by tracey

‘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.’

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Gresham College, 12th February 2014

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

The British and Europe – Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court

Posted February 14th, 2014 in constitutional law, EC law, human rights, lectures, news by sally

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Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court

Cambridge Freshfields Annual Law Lecture, 12th February 2014

Source: www.supremecourt.uk

Decision-making in the UK’s top court – Professor Alan Paterson OBE

Posted December 16th, 2013 in lectures, Supreme Court by sally

Decision-making in the UK’s top court

Professor Alan Paterson OBE

Second annual BAILII Lecture, 9th December 2013

Source: www.bailii.org

What’s the point of human rights? – Lady Hale

Posted December 4th, 2013 in human rights, lectures, legal history, news by sally

What’s the point of human rights? (PDF)

Lady Hale

Warwick Law Lecture, 28th November 2013

Source: www.supremecourt.gov.uk

How has the NHS been changed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012? – No. 5 Chambers

Posted July 3rd, 2013 in budgets, competition, doctors, health, hospitals, lectures, medical treatment by sally

“The purpose of this lecture is to attempt to look at the big themes in healthcare law in order to understand how the legal structure of the NHS has changed as a result of the passing and almost complete implementation of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. Inevitably there are other factors that change the NHS at the same time and I will attempt to weave in these other factors at an appropriate place.”

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No. 5 Chambers, 26th June 2013

Source: www.no5.com

Regulation at home, but not abroad – Gresham College Lecture

“In December 2012 Sir Geoffrey Nice finished four years as Vice Chair of the Bar Standards Board, the body that regulates barristers. After forty years in practice as a barrister, that included seven years working as an employed barrister in the UN, he will describe the differences between practice in a regulated legal community and practice in the UN system that operates with little effective regulation apart from what national systems impose on individual prosecution and defence lawyers. He will also review what he learnt as a regulator from looking critically at the Bar of England and Wales. The Bar of England and Wales and the country’s legal system as a whole proudly assert that they are the best in the world.  Are these claims justified?  If so, why was legislation thought to be necessary to regulate them more closely, and was that legislation wise?”

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Lecture by Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Gresham College, 8th May 2013

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

The ICLR Annual Lecture 2013

Posted April 8th, 2013 in lectures, marriage, news by sally

“Marriage from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first century”

Some reflections on Hyde v Hyde and Woodmansee (1866) LR 1 P & D 130
By Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division

On Thursday 25th April 2013, 6pm

The Common Room of The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1PL

Tickets cost £5, Students free
To book your place visit www.iclr.co.uk/annual-lectures

Legal Academics: Forgotten Players or Interlopers? – The Hon. Mr Justice Beatson

Posted December 7th, 2012 in judgments, judiciary, lectures, legal profession by sally

Legal Academics: Forgotten Players or Interlopers? (PDF)

The Hon. Mr Justice Beatson

Inner Temple Reader’s Lecture Series, November 2012

Source: www.innertemple.org.uk

Supreme Court justice calls for positive discrimination on the menu – Law Society’s Gazette

Posted November 19th, 2012 in diversity, equality, judiciary, lectures, news by sally

“Positive discrimination is the only thing likely to significantly accelerate the rate of progress towards a more diverse judiciary, a Supreme Court judge has suggested.”

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Law Society’s Gazette, 17th November 2012

Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk

Judicial dialogue? Straw and Bratza deliver choice words on Strasbourg – The Guardian

Posted November 15th, 2012 in courts, human rights, lectures, lord chancellor, news, treaties by sally

“Former lord chancellor suggests the human rights court will be the architect of its own demise as the former president recalls its achievements.”

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The Guardian, 14th November 2012

Source: www.guardian.co.uk

The end of Slobodan Milošević – Gresham College Lecture

Posted October 5th, 2012 in crimes against humanity, genocide, international courts, lectures, war crimes by tracey

“Slobodan Milošević died a few months before the end of his trial.  There were no closing arguments and there was no judgment by the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia – the ICTY. Sir Geoffrey Nice had been preparing closing arguments as the case proceeded and will explain what some of them were.”

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Lecture by Sir Geoffrey Nice

Gresham College, 2nd October 2012

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

International Criminal Tribunals: Experiments? Works in progress? Institutions that are here for good, or maybe not? – Gresham College Lecture

Posted September 13th, 2012 in crime, international courts, jurisdiction, lectures by tracey

“In the last twenty years several international courts have been established to try crimes committed in armed conflicts. Public expectation of what these courts may achieve is high; but are the courts living up to that expectation? Is the public expectation realistic and part of a liberal tradition; may it be seen as ‘judicial romantic’, according to courts capabilities they can never have? Are the courts always bound to be tainted by political influence that makes it probable they will ultimately fail? What sense can be made of the permanent International Criminal Court – the ICC – when Russia, China and the USA decline to accept its jurisdiction for their own citizens but can, as permanent members of the Security Council of the UN, refer individuals from other non-member states to the ICC for trial? And would it matter if the ICC failed? Has enough already been done to chart a way ahead that will allow the law a proper role in the service of countries, or communities in countries, at war? In any event, are war crimes trials the best partner of politics in the search for peace? Are there times when it may be better to let history go in the interests of a better safer future? This is a part of Sir Geoffrey Nice’s 2012/13 series of lectures as Gresham Professor of Law.”

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Lecture by Sir Geoffrey Nice

Gresham College, 12th September 2012

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

Privacy and Publicity in Family Law – Their Eternal Tension – Gresham College Lecture

Posted July 27th, 2012 in family courts, lectures, media, privacy by sally

“There is general agreement among non-family lawyers that family procedures should be more transparent. But exactly what role should the media play in matters of family justice?”

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Lecture by The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Wall

Gresham College, 28th June 2012

Source: www.gresham.ac.uk

Justice is Too Often Sacrificied for Price Competition: Bar Chairman Addresses Cayman Islands on Ethics and Rule of Law – The Bar Council

Posted March 23rd, 2012 in lectures, press releases, rule of law by tracey

“Michael Todd QC, the Chairman of the Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, will today address an invited audience in Grand Court Number One of the Cayman Islands on ‘Ethics and the Rule of Law.’ ”

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The Bar Council, 22nd March 2012

Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk