Day: 20 February 2017

‘A live event with Tom Hodgkinson of The Idler. He is joined by Meirian Jump of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in Clerkenwell, Peter Francis of Gladstone’s Residential Library in North Wales, and Sara Wingate-Gray, UCL academic and the Itinerant Poetry Librarian. Learn about these refuges for quiet study and help plan more libraries.

In association with The Idler.’

Date: 17th March 2017, 7.00-8.30

Location: Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here

‘Making rules and adhering to them has underpinned the course of the United Nations and international relations more generally since 1945. Some States have not respected these and situations have arisen where adherence to these rules were dismissed but this had limited impact on the rules themselves. They were a violation of the rules, rather than a challenge to them. But some argue that they must now fight for the rules themselves, a cause they never anticipated.’

Date: 7th March 2017, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Brunei Lecture Theatre, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0AL

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘This training has been developed in partnership with the Law Society and is an essential course for all solicitors who will be appearing in the youth court.

The course provides an overview of youth-specific criminal law from the police station to the youth court. The training will cover key topics such as out of court disposals, bail and remand, jurisdiction, adaptations to the trial process and youth sentencing. The course will introduce participants to the underlying principles of youth justice and international children’s rights law. This knowledge will be embedded through interactive exercises and case studies.

Participants will learn about child development and the learning difficulties, mental health difficulties and communication needs that affect children and young people in the criminal justice system. The course will also provide an introduction to fitness to plead and effective participation as well as modifications and adaptations to the court process, including intermediaries. The course will enable participants to identify needs and vulnerabilities and how these are properly addressed to ensure a child receives a fair trial.’

Date: 2nd March 2017, 9.00am-5.00pm

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

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

‘Baroness Valerie Amos CH will share a conversation with Hina Jilani discussing the right to defend human rights and the situation of human rights defenders globally.’

Date: 16th March 2017, 7.00-9.00pm

Location: The Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

This roundtable aims to reunite researchers, judges and policymakers in order to explore the current instruments judges have and use in encouraging settlements. For the purposes of this discussion, settlement is seen as broadly as possible:

dispute resolution between parties in civil cases, both in and out-of-court (but court-related) (e.g. court mediation schemes, early neutral evaluation, part 36 offers, costs sanctions);
agreements and negotiations in criminal cases (e.g. encouragement of plea bargaining, advance sentence indications, restorative justice);
technological innovations (e.g. online dispute resolution).
The roundtable was inspired by an international research project funded by the European Research Council, which currently takes place in England and Wales, Israel and Italy. The project aims to explore the different policies, instruments and practices judges can use in resolving and containing disputes, as well as in minimising court proceedings.

Diana Richards, IALS Associate Research Fellow, was the UK research lead in this project in 2015/2016. She will open the session with a short presentation of results of the preliminary mapping of settlement instruments currently found in England and Wales. They will serve as starting points for the roundtable.

Date: 22nd March 2017, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.

‘A joint event from the Law Society and Being Lawyers

Rising stress levels among lawyers show no sign of slowing down, despite an increased focus on wellbeing and mental health in the legal profession in recent years.

Key questions remain:
How can we open up a dialogue about stress? What is the lasting solution to stress? How can you stop treating the symptoms of your stress and start tackling it at its root cause?

This seminar seeks to answer these questions. It is designed to encourage you to open up about the challenges you face and to support you in having a new way of relating to stress so that you can perform at your best without the risk of burnout.’

Date: 30th March 2017, 2.00-5.00pm

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

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.

‘We will be hosting a panel with some of the most forward thinking firms and professionals to discuss how best we can all be bold for gender equality on International Women’s Day and beyond.

If you feel at a dead end with tackling gender equality and need some inspiration to move the conversation forward then sign up!

We will be discussing the best technological advances helping carers work flexibly, the work allocation system that tries to eliminate bias and the most up to the minute leadership and inclusion training.’

Date: 7th March 2017, 6.15-9.00pm

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

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.

‘Chair: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, IALS

Author: Dr Emily Grabham, University of Kent

Commentators:

Professor Marie Andree Jacob, Keele Law School
Professor Amade M’charek, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Professor Alain Pottage, Professor of Law, London School of Economics’

Date: 21st March 2017, 4.00-6.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Multinational companies dominate the oil, gas and mining industries. They manage complex networks of subsidiaries across the world. Tax abuses have received a lot of publicity recently. This talk will consider the challenges of a tax administrator in a developing country and international efforts to combat this problem.’

Date: 10th March 2017, 12.30-13.30pm

Location: Room 3.1, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘With the Government’s policy a little bit clearer, it is now possible to discuss some of the legal aspects of Brexit. We bring together three EU legal experts: Sir Alan Dashwood KCMG QC, emeritus professor of European Law at Cambridge, formerly legal director at the Council of Ministers, Professor Derrick Wyatt QC of Oxford, and co author with Sir Alan of the leading EU law textbook and, not least, Sir Christopher Bellamy QC, former judge of the Court of First Instance, Luxembourg, first President of the Competition Appeals Tribunal and now global chairman of Linklaters competition practice, to form a “brains trust” to discuss and answer questions on any aspect of Brexit.’

Date: 23rd March 2017, 5.30-7.30pm

Location: The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, 33 Chancery Lane, Rolls Passage, London WC2A 1EN

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Speaker: Professor Richard Susskind OBE’

Date: 20th March 2017, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, booking required

More information can be found here.