“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.”
Lecture by Sir Geoffrey Nice
Gresham College, 2nd October 2012
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
“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.”
Lecture by Sir Geoffrey Nice
Gresham College, 12th September 2012
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
“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?”
Lecture by The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Wall
Gresham College, 28th June 2012
Source: www.gresham.ac.uk
“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.’ ”
The Bar Council, 22nd March 2012
Source: www.barcouncil.org.uk
“Jonathan Sumption QC believes that UK judiciary is too closely involved in making decisions best left for parliament.”
F.A. Mann Lecture, Lincoln’s Inn, 8th November 2011
The Guardian, 9th November 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The watchdog that examines miscarriages of justice is failing innocent people, according to a senior lawyer involved in some of the highest-profile court cases in recent years.”
The Guardian, 29th May 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“An independent press is crucial to the administration of justice, the lord chief justice of England and Wales said during a lecture in Israel on Monday night.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Related link: The Judiciary and the Media (PDF)
“Annual Law Reform Lecture: Summing Down the Summing-Up – Speech by Lord Justice Moses, 23rd November 2010.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 23rd November 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Giving this lecture provides me not only with the opportunity to talk to you about sentencing, a topic that has been a keen interest of mine since my days as an undergraduate, but also allows me to pay tribute to a number of people whom I greatly admire…”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 25th October 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“This evening, I should like to focus on the role of equity – at first sight, an unusual subject for a common law lecture. But as one of my predecessors as Master of the Rolls, in fact the last Chancery Master of the Rolls before me, Lord Evershed, put it, ‘The function of equity was . . . to fulfil the common law: not so much to correct it as to perfect it’…”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 25th October 2010 (Lecture delivered 12th October)
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve QC MP, has delivered the Criminal Bar Association’s Kalisher lecture entitled ‘Contempt of Court: why it still matters’.”
Attorney General’s Office, 12th October 2010
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A former president of the Family Division has called on the government to cut the number of children in custody and safeguard access to justice in child welfare cases.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 20th July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“Legislation intended to open up the family courts is a ‘lost opportunity’ that will fail to bring about the openness needed to improve confidence in family proceedings, a leading judge has said.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th July 2010
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The head of Britain’s highest court defends the Human Rights Act and responds to accusations that the act is hampering the fight against terrorism.”
The Guardian, 10th June 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Read Lord Steyn’s Boydell lecture on defamation law and privacy in full.”
The Guardian, 27th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Life of the Law: The Logic of Experience (PDF)
Lecture given by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, Master of the Rolls
Lionel Cohen Lecture, 23rd May 2010
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Read in full Justice Arthur Chaskalson’s lecture on the accountability of professionals for torture in the war against terror.”
The Guardian, 25th May 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Loss of a Chance and a Chance of Loss (PDF)
Lecture by Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
The Law Reports Annual Lecture, 19th October 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
“This is an edited extract from the Jan Grodecki annual lecture, delivered last night at Leicester University.”
The Guardian, 23rd October 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
The Voice of the Child: Children’s “rights” in Family Proceedings (PDF)
Lionel Cohen Lecture by Sir Mark Potter, President of the Family Division
Israel, 4th May 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
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