‘IALS Seminar on the “Clarification and Easification of Legislative Drafting”.

The seminar will be chaired by Daphne Perry, Clarity and the International Association for Plain Legal Language.

Speakers:

Jenny Gracie, Lawyer, Linguist and French-Court Approved Translator and Interpreter;
Daniel Greenberg, Parliamentary Counsel, UK;
Dr Giulia Adriana Pennisi, University of Palermo;
William Robinson, Associate Research Fellow, IALS;
Prof Helen Xanthaki, Sir William Dale Centre, IALS.’

Date: 25th March 2015, 2.30-5.30pm

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.

‘Speaker:
David Foster, Queen Mary, University of London.
Organised with the London Legal History Seminar.’

Date: 20th March 2015, 6.00-7.30pm

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.

‘There seems to be little doubt that the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta is an occasion to celebrate. Much less secure is the position of its much younger sibling in the list of what are often called “constitutional statutes”, the Human Rights Act 1998. It took the United Kingdom almost 50 years to adopt its own particular “Bill of Rights”, and after its tender fifteen years of operation it is still under attack.’

Date: 24th March 2015, 4.30-6.00pm

Location: Parliament Chamber Inner Temple

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Jerusalem prize winning author, Ian McEwan will read from his new book The Children’s Act for which he turns his pen to another British Institution, the High Court.’

Date: 30th April 2015, 5.30-9.00pm

Location: Gray’s Inn

Charge: These are exclusive events for JUSTICE members and their guests. Tickets cost £50 and all profits go to the Securing JUSTICE at 60 Appeal.

More information can be found here.