Day: 21 January 2016

‘Judge Rosas will hold a conversation about his role as a Judge of the European Court of Justice, a position which he has held since 2002, with Professor Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at City Law School.’

Date: 10th February 2016, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Room A130, College Building , London

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Join us for Europe’s first Law Tech Hackathon ‘coding for good’. We met Hackney Law Centre in 2015 and realised that they had the most embracing, innovative culture of any law firm in London, we wanted to help.

Hackney Community Law Centre is an amazing charity employing solicitors and paralegals to provide free and independent legal advice and representation to people living, working or studying in the London Borough of Hackney and neighbouring boroughs.’

Date: 18th-19th March 2016, 7.00-10.00pm

Location: Campus London, a Google space – 4-5 Bonhill Street Shoreditch EC2A 4BX GB

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Open to students and graduates interested in discovering more about life at the Bar, the UK’s largest National Pupillage Fair is the best opportunity for students looking for pupillage to meet representatives from chambers, course providers and other organisations essential to a successful career at the Bar.’

Date: 5th March 2016, 10.30am-3.00pm

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

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘The trial of the Mangrove Nine in 1970 represents a high point of the Black Panther movement in the UK and stands as a watershed moment for black activism in the struggle against institutionalised police prejudice. But what prompted the backlash of black British people against law enforcement? This talk will explore and contextualise the mounting racial tensions that sparked one of the most important show trials of the 20th century.’

Date: 28th January 2016, 7.00-8.00pm

Location: The National Archives – Bessant Drive. Kew. Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU GB

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘People are social beings. We wrong a person as a social being when we deny her adequate access to decent human contact. We also wrong her as a social being when we deny her the chance to contribute socially.

This lecture explores this second type of wrong, which we can call social contribution injustice.

The obvious victims of social contribution injustice are the people we deem to be socially useless or threatening. Offenders are a paradigm example.

This lecture applies an analysis of social contribution injustice to our standard practices of punishment to expose the many ways that we wrong offenders as social beings.’

This event is accredited with 1 CPD hour with the SRA and BSB

Date: 28th January 2016, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘The celebrated novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones will talk with Ruth Herz about his recent acclaimed book Kid Gloves. In this book, which Mars-Jones calls a voyage around his father, he considers the formidable figure of Sir William the High Court judge in his professional role, as well as the man, the husband, the father, and the head of a family, weaving in his own personal memories of family life at the Gray’s Inn flat.’

Date: 22nd January 2016, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Room CLO 306, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck University of London

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.

’15 April 1989: an inescapable crush on the terraces at Hillsborough Stadium at an FA Cup Semi-Final led to the deaths of 96 men, women and children. Hundreds of Liverpool fans were injured, thousands traumatised. Throughout the investigations and inquiries, those who died and survived were vilified amid police allegations of drunkenness, violence, criminal and abusive behaviour. The families’ unrelenting campaign for truth recovery led to disclosure of all existing documents to an Independent Panel. Its definitive report revealed institutional mendacity, corrupted evidence and partial investigation. This brought an unreserved Government apology, an ongoing criminal investigation into all agencies involved and an unprecedented IPCC investigation into 2,000 police officers. It also led to new inquests, commencing March 2014 through to 2016. Author of the highly acclaimed Hillsborough: The Truth, Phil Scraton, Professor of Criminology, Queen’s University, headed the Panel’s research and was primary author of its report. He has also been advisor to the families’ legal teams throughout the inquests. In this talk he reflects on the long-term campaign for truth, details the Panel’s extensive findings and analyses the new inquests and their outcome. Finally, he examines the impact of his critical research and truth recovery for challenging institutional injustice and holding State institutions to account.’

Date: 17th March 2016, 6.00-7.30pm

Location: UCL Anatomy B15

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.

‘Ruth Herz will talk to Hilary Heilbron about her mother, Dame Rose Heilbron, a world famous icon of the 1950s and 1960s. Hilary’s biography charts her mother’s successful legal career, and how as a working wife and mother, she navigated her way to an isolated position of female seniority in a stoically masculine field. Rose Heilbron was the first woman Judge in England in 1956, the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, and the second woman to be appointed a High Court judge. ‘

Date: 19th February 2016, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Clore Management Centre, Room CLO 203

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.

‘Specialist barristers from 11KBW – well-established as the leading information law chambers – will provide updates on the law and practicalities of this increasingly important area. Topics will include:

The future of data protection:

an overview of the imminent General Data Protection Regulation and its impact
Data protection: subject access requests, compensation claims and international transfers
Freedom of information: updates on leading new cases and a look to the future
Environmental information: analysis and practical implications of important case law developments
Media and data privacy: privacy-related damages, the right to be forgotten and the increasing interrelationship between data protection and privacy
Catastrophic data losses: how to reduce risks and manage consequences
Surveillance and the state: an update on the evolving relationship between state objectives and individual privacy.’

Date: 2nc March 2016, 9.00am-4.00pm

Location: The Royal College of Surgeons 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.