Category: Forthcoming events

“The Law Society’s Family Law Conference 2013 will discuss key questions arising from religious beliefs when parental relationships breakdown, the response of the civil family courts in recent cases, and whether the religious and civil courts can work more closely together to achieve better outcomes for families, with a focus on the Islamic and Jewish courts.

This event is aimed at the following:

– Private and public family law practitioners, particularly those working in multi-faith and multi-cultural communities.
– Anyone with an interest in how the family courts deal with contemporary questions arising from relationship breakdowns in a pluralist society.”

This event is CPD certified.

Date: Tuesday 29th October 2013

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

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

“The Annual Bar Conference 2013 provides an essential opportunity to learn and discuss key issues affecting careers, opportunities and life at the Bar.”

Date: Saturday 2nd November 2013

Location: Westminster Park Plaza

Charge: See website for fee categories

More information can be found here.

“The annual JUSTICE Human Rights Law Conference is the acknowledged forum for ensuring delegates are fully up to date with developments.

It covers the key areas of human rights law and provides an update on pertinent legislative and case-law developments across the field, including jurisprudence from domestic and European courts as relevant.

Major areas covered are:

The application of human right law from a judge’s perspective – keynote speech from Mrs Justice (Laura) Cox
A human rights review of the year – all major legislative and case-law developments from leading practitioner Helen Mountfield QC
Human rights, democracy and judicial independence – an analysis from Professor Robert Hazell of the UCL Constitution Unit, followed by wider discussion with panel of leading politicians.”

Date: 24th October 2013, 9.30am-5.00pm

Location: Bloomsbury Hotel, 16 Great Russell St, London WC1B 3NN

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

“This seminar will provide a timely opportunity to consider the future of legal education and training in England and Wales, and is scheduled as legal regulators and policymakers respond to the recently published Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) final report.”

This event is CPD certified.

Date: Tuesday, 8th October 2013

Location: Central London

Charge: £190 plus VAT

More information can be found here.

“Law is everywhere providing answers to almost everything. Ever larger numbers of students want to be part of the legal mechanisms that control us, regulate us and take over from politicians when politicians sense their own incapability. It is almost a new religion. In this lecture – and in the discussion to follow – some of the issues dealt with in earlier years by Professor Bogdanor will be reviewed as will the effect of Europe on our law.”

Date: Wednesday 4th December 2013, 6.00pm

Location: Barnard’s Inn Hall

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Guest of Honour: Lord Justice Ryder

This seminar will bring together key policymakers and stakeholders to assess the future of the family justice system in England and Wales, and will bring out latest thinking on Government’s ongoing agenda for reform in this area. It is scheduled as Parliamentarians debate the Children and Families Bill, which is expected to bring about significant reforms to public and private family law next year, and will also provide delegates with an opportunity to discuss progress made under the Judiciary’s Family Justice Modernisation Programme as it enters its second phase of implementation.”

This event is CPD certified.

Date: Tuesday 16th July 2013

Location: Sixty One Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET

Charge: £190 plus VAT

More information can be found here.

“On Saturday 22 June the Institute of Barristers’ Clerks (IBC) will be holding their annual
conference titled ‘Keep Calm and Carry on Clerking’ at Kings Place, London.”

Date: Saturday 22nd June 2013

Location: Kings Place, London

Charge: See website for registration fee categories.

More information can be found here.

“The Panel includes:
Eileen Denza CMG
Omar Deghayes, Cageprisoners, former Guantanamo prisoner
Ben Emmerson QC, Matrix Chambers
Julian Knowles QC, Matrix Chambers

The panel will be introduced by Saimo Chahal, partner, Bindmans LLP and the Chair will be taken by Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC, Queen Mary’s College, London.”

Date: 19th June 2013, 6.00-7.30pm

Location: Cruciform LT1, Cruciform Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Collective actions for damages in competition law cases, today and under the proposed Consumer Rights Bill (collective ‘opt-out’ actions).

This event is aimed at all Competition lawyers.”

CPD hours 1

Date: 10th July 2013, 5.45-8.00pm

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

Charge: Members of the Law Society £75 + VAT = £90; Non-members of the Law Society £175 + VAT = £210; Members of the Competition Section – FREE = £0; Members of the Law Society working for NFP £15 + VAT = £18

More information can be found here.

“This Future Lawyers Network LIVE online webinar is for anyone who is looking for their first job in law and would like some top tips from one of our expert careers advisers.

It’s tough to know how best to go about your job search, and deciding whether you want to be a solicitor or a barrister – so why not join us for this free live webinar and ask an expert? You’ll be able to submit any questions you may have during the live Q&A session.”

Date: 19th June 2013, 6.30-7.00pm

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“How competition (including merger control) investigations will change in practice under the new legislation and CMA.

This event is aimed at all Competition lawyers.”

CPD hours 1

Date: 2nd July 2013, 5.15-8.00pm

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

Charge: Members of the Law Society £75 + VAT = £90; Non-members of the Law Society £175 + VAT = £210; Members of the Competition Section – FREE = £0; Members of the Law Society working for NFP £15 + VAT = £18

More information can be found here.

“The on-going dispute over plain packaging of tobacco products puts the spotlight not only on the particular trade mark related issues, but also on how the TRIPs Agreement and other key multilateral IP agreements (Berne and Paris) should be interpreted. The approach to interpretation is not only a single dispute issue, but ha systemic implications for IP disputes and, more broadly IP rule-making. Rules of international treaty interpretation are not new, but their impacts in IP are relatively new.”

Date: 21st June 2013, 12.00am-2.00pm

Location: Senior Common Room (3rd Floor), Queen Mary, University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“The conference will discuss the theme of Law, Liberty, and State in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Political theorists, international relations scholars, philosophers and lawyers from various fields of public law will present papers on this theme, reflecting on the contribution of the following thinkers: F.A. Hayek, Michael Oakeshott, and Carl Schmitt.

Speakers: Nehal Bhuta (EUI); David Boucher (Cardiff); David Dyzenhaus (Toronto); Duncan Kelly (Cambridge); Paul Kelly (LSE); Erika Kiss (Princeton); Chandran Kukathas (LSE); Martin Loughlin (LSE); Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton); Thomas Poole (LSE); Adrian Vermeule (Harvard); Lars Vinx (Bilkent)

There is limited space available for this conference. Those wishing to attend are advised to register their expression of interest via email to: T.M.Poole@lse.ac.uk”

Date: 20th – 21st June 2013

Location: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor

Charge: Free

“What can legal education offer to the present and the future? In the midst of attempts to transform legal education into a commodity for the privileged few, our 2013 season of Law on Trial asks whether it is possible to engage the current climate of professionalization, vocational training and the narrowing of law as an education on citizenship and political imagination from more creative and alternative perspectives.”

Date: 17th – 21st June 2013

Location: Room B34, Malet Street Building, Birkbeck, University of London

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Jack Straw introduces his book thus: ‘I’ve been fascinated by the inter-action of the work of our courts on the processes of government and the body politic. Over a significant part of my Ministerial career I was responsible for an extensive legislative programme, including the Human Rights Act 1998, which has become a new foundation of what passes as the constitution of the United Kingdom. The final Ministerial post I held, from 2007 -2010 was as Lord Chancellor – the first in modern times to sit in the House of Commons. The job gave me an interesting insight at the intersection of the three branches of modern democratic government, executive, judicial, and legislative. In alighting on subjects for my three lectures, I tried to identify subject areas where I could draw on my experiences over many years, and hopefully better illuminate aspects of our system.’

The first lecture was on ‘The Future of the Criminal Courts’; the second on ‘Human Rights and Europe’; the third on ‘Judicial Appointments’.”

Date: 26th June 2013, 4.00-6.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Charge: Free, registration is required

More information can be found here.

“The general theme of this year’s roundtable event will be financial stability and regulatory reform with special reference to the regulation of insurance markets at domestic, European and international level.”

Date: 27th June 2013, 2.30-7.00pm

Location: The Old Library, Lloyd’s, One Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA

Charge: Practitioners: £150.00, QM Alumni, academics, barristers, NGO’s, Government organisations: £80.00, Students: £30.00

More information can be found here.

“This event will cover an update of the law of expert evidence, including admissibility, duties of an expert witness and current controversies, as well as a case-study of psychiatric evidence relating to partial defence of murder.”

Date: 25th July 2013, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“This year’s lecture will be given by Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, President of the UK Supreme Court. Further details to follow.”

Date: 15th October 2013, 6.30pm

Location: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, 28 Tudor Street, London EC4Y 0AY

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Tasers have been carried by the police since 2003. The aim of Taser use is to prevent conflict, protect life and resolve disputes. However, people have been injured by Taser guns during peaceful protests, when being arrested and when they have already been put in handcuffs.

This debate will help the profession look at not only legal context but also moral and human rights context of Taser use. During the debate each speaker will share their views so as to develop a balanced view of Taser use in the UK.”

CPD hours 1.5

Date: 24th June 2013, 6.00-7.45pm

Location: The Law Society

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Legislative Drafting and Linguistics: Strategies to Communicate the Law
•Chair: Hayley Rodgers, Office of Parliamentary Counsel
•Richard Heaton, First Parliamentary Counsel
Innovations in Legislative Drafting; but have we succeeded in offering perfect laws? Perhaps we can look at alternatives? But, as for statutory law, can other disciplines assist us?
•Maurizio Gotti, University of Bergamo
Borrowing from other disciplines; what linguistics can offer; law in the sense of legislative instruments

Linguistics and Law Reform
•Chair: Jonathan Teasdale, Sir William Dale Fellow, formerly Law
Commission
•Vijai K. Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong (via Skype)
Language in law reform: linguistics can play a major role in moulding law reform; how? examples?
•Adrian Hogarth, Senior Parliamentary Counsel, Law Commission
Law reform and language: the legal perspective and examples

Law and Translation
•Chair: Thomas Glyn Watkin, Cardiff University, former First Welsh
Legislative Counsel
•William Robinson, IALS Associate Research Fellow, former Law
Reviser, European Commission
Why translation of legislation is so difficult
• Ingemar Strandvik, European Commission
What has been done so far and what still has to be done in the next future: some practical examples.”

Date: 27th June 2013, 2.00-5.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Charge: £50.00. Academic Rate: £40.00. Student Rate: £15.00.

More information can be found here.