Chicken breeder faces court over noisy cockerel – Daily Telegraph
‘A chicken breeder is being prosecuted after villagers complained her crowing cockerel keeps them awake at night.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
EVENT: UCL – IBIL: Annual Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture 2014 – Culture of the Public Domain – A Good Thing?
‘Prof. Hugh Hansen is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches courses in IP Law, Copyright Law, Trademark Law and EU and International Intellectual Property Law. He also taught U.S. Constitutional Law for over 25 years. He is the founder and director of both the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute and the Fordham Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy, now in its 22nd year. Managing Intellectual Property magazine named him in 2010 and again in 2013 as one of the 50 most influential people in IP in the world. In doing so it characterized him as an “IP provocateur” and “the ringmaster who pulls together one of the IP world’s must-attend events.” In 2007, Chief Judge Paul Michel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit presented Prof. Hansen with an award for “his contribution to the legal community’s understanding of international intellectual property law.” ‘
Date: 25th June 2014, 6.00-7.15pm
Location: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Campus, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Charge: Free, registration required
More information can be found here.
EVENT: Modern Law Review 2014 Chorley Lecture – The Constitutional Imagination
‘The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal, the founding editor of The Modern Law Review. The Lecture, which is normally delivered in late May or early June at the London School of Economics & Political Science, is the most important occasion in the calendar of The Modern Law Review. A version of the lecture is subsequently published as the lead article in the January issue of the following year’s Review.’
Date: 17th June 2014, 6.00-7.00pm
Location: Shaw Library, Od Building, London School of Economics
Charge: Free
More information can be found here.
EVENT: IALS – Priests of the Law: Royal Justices and Legal-Literary Culture in 13th-Century England
‘Organised with the London Legal History Seminar.’
Date: 23rd May 2014, 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.
EVENT: IALS – National Security and Public Health: Exceptions to Human Rights?
‘Keynote Speaker: Professor Malcolm Dando, Professor of International Security, University of Bradford, on “Threats of dual use biomedical research – when national security and public health collide”.
NATIONAL SECURITY PANEL
Chair: Dr Peter Lee
Dr Dina Hadad: “States of Exception and National Security: Exceptional Threat vs. Exceptional Rights”
Dr Myriam Feinberg: “Conflicts of Sovereignty in International Counterterrorism: the Kadi Case”
Solon Solomon: “National Security Debates in the Framework of Israeli Constitutionalism”
Dimitrios Kagiaros: “The Assessment of Damage to National Security in Disclosures from Whistleblowers in the Security and Intelligence Community in the UK”
Professor Jonathan Hafetz: “Targeted Drones Strikes and the Future of International Human Rights”
PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL
Chair: Dr John Coggon
Dr Brigit Toebes: “The Right to Health, National Security and Public Health: An Uneasy Relationship”
Dr Laura Niada: “Individual v public health in the human right to medicines: the problematic identification of ‘essential medicines’”
Dr Simisola Akintola: “Public Health versus Human Rights: An examination of the tensions between Individual Rights and Public Health in Biobanking Research”
Dr Dobrochna Bach-Golecka: “Public Health and Private Health: The Impact of EU Law on Healthcare in the Member States”
Professor Joachim Sanden and Dr Sacha-Dominik Bachmann: “The Right to Liberty and Security, Public Health and Disease Control”
Dr Andraz Zidar: “WHO International Health Regulations, the Rule of Law and the Protection of International Human Rights”
Conference Convenors: Dr Myriam Feinberg and Dr Laura Niada.’
Date: 29th May 2014, 11.00am-6.00pm
Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Charge: Full Rate: £75.00, Students: £40.00.
More information can be found here.
EVENT: UCL – Lord Mansfield: Justice in the Age of Reason
‘In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain’s most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years. His legal decisions launched England on the path to abolishing slavery and the slave trade, modernized commercial law in ways that helped establish Britain as the world’s leading industrial and trading nation, and his vigorous opposition to the American colonists stoked Revolutionary fires.’
Date: 29th April 2014, 3.00-5.00pm
Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG
Charge: Free, registration required.
More information can be found here.
EVENT: IALS – Methodology of Legal History
‘Professor Christopher Tomlins, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine, Affiliated Research Professor with The American Bar Foundation, Chicago, and from July 2014, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Distinguished Visiting Fellow in May 2014 at in the School of History and the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
Organised with the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context at Queen Mary, University of London.’
Date: 13th May 2014, 3.00-5.00pm
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: Birkbeck – Law on Trial
‘Putting scientific evidence on trial, our enquiry will extend from sciences of the body and mind (including psychoanalysis and neuroscience) to regimes of criminalization, criminal justice policy and prison abolition.’
Date: Various, see website for details
Location: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
Charge: Free, registration required.
More information can be found here.
Intellectual Property in the UK and Europe – Speech by Lord Neuberger
Intellectual Property in the UK and Europe (PDF)
Speech by Lord Neuberger
Burrell Lecture for the Competition Law, 1st April 2014
Source: www.supremecourt.uk
Digital Rights Ireland Ltd v Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources and others (Irish Human Rights Commission intervening); In re Kärntner Landesregierung and others – WLR Daily
‘Parliament and Council Directive 2006/24/EC of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC was invalid.’
WLR Daily, 8th April 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
JA (Afghanistan) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily
‘Although a tribunal adjudicating on an asylum appeal did not have power, in the absence of express statutory provision, to exclude relevant evidence in the form of records of the asylum applicant’s interviews, it was required by the common law principle of fairness to consider with care how much weight should be attached to such evidence, having regard to the circumstances in which it came into existence, and the extent to which reliance could properly be placed on the applicant’s answers.’
WLR Daily, 9th April 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Four jailed after innocent man shot in Turkish gang feud – BBC News
‘Four people have been jailed for the murder of an innocent man caught up in a gang feud in east London.’
BBC News, 11th April 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Eve’s Law: addresses of domestic violence victims must be kept secret – Halsbury’s Law Exchange
‘In busy working environments it is easy to make mistakes but some mistakes are more costly than others. An inadvertent disclosure of a domestic violence victim’s safe address to their abuser, for instance, could cost someone their life. Now signed by 87 MPs, Early Day Motion 900 so called “Eve’s Law” is calling for the greater protection of safe addresses.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 14th April 2014
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
Non-Appealing Cartelists Beware – Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers
‘Tucked away at the back of last week’s Supreme Court decision on time-limits for follow-on claims is a very important development for private competition actions.’
Competition Bulletin from Blackstone Chambers, 13th April 2014
Source: www.competitionbulletin.com
The Defamation Act 2013: reflections and reforms – OUP Blog
‘How can a society balance both the freedom of expression, including the freedom of the press, with the individual’s right to reputation? Defamation law seeks to address precisely this delicate equation. Especially in the age of the internet, where it is possible to publish immediately and anonymously, these concerns have become even more pressing and complex. The Defamation Act 2013 has introduced some of the most important changes to this area in recent times, including the defence for honest opinion, new internet-specific reforms protecting internet publishers, and attempts to curb an industry of “libel tourism” in the U.K.’
OUP Blog, 14th April 2014
Source: www.blog.oup.com
Attorney General’s concern over ‘unworkable’ cases – Daily Telegraph
‘Attorney General Dominic Grieve to review Crown Prosecution Service’s procedure following Nigel Evans’ failed prosecution.;
Daily Telegraph, 13th April 2014
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Graham Gee: The Lord Chief Justice and Section 5 of the Constitutional Reform Act – UK Constitutional Law Association
‘The Constitutional Reform Act redrew relationships between the senior judiciary and Parliament in a number of ways. Amongst the most significant was removing the right of the LCJ to speak in the Lords. Earlier this month, the new LCJ Lord Thomas repeated the lament of his immediate predecessors that it was a mistake to deprive the LCJ of the right to address Parliament on the floor of the House on important matters relating to the administration of justice. In this context, some have read the LCJ’s suggestion of a new approach to s5 of the CRA as significant. Drawing on interviews conducted between 2011-13 as part of an AHRC-funded project on The Politics of Judicial Independence, I want to shed some light on tensions that have arisen about the use of s5.’
UK Constitutional Law Association, 14th April 2014
Source: www.ukconstitutionallaw.org
Backlog in coroners’ courts: Bereaved families wait up to seven years for inquests – The Independent
‘A new standards code calls for investigations to be completed within six months.’
Full story
The Independent, 13th April 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Disrepair: La luta continua! – NearlyLegal
‘2013 was a difficult year for claimant disrepair. Changes in legal aid funding have made it all but impossible to pursue a disrepair claim under legal aid alone, as funding is only available for an order to carry out repairs to where there is serious risk to health or well being of the tenant or other occupiers, and not for further repairs or the damages claim (although full funding remains for a counterclaim to a possession claim, which can be brought after the possession order).’
NearlyLegal, 13th April 2014
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
