Lawbore Legal Events Calendar

This popular termly event, is where panellists are invited to share their experiences in entering the legal profession, explaining their own personal challenges and how they were overcome.

This term, we are very pleased to have 3 LPC alumni as our panellists:

Robie Ramos,  Associate at Evershed Sutherland (International) LLP;

Amandeep Saini,  Senior Solicitor at BNP Paribas; and

Peace Egbulefu, Solicitor Advocate, Crown Prosecution Service

Find out more about this event here.

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies webinar series features Pragna Patel, who is a founding member and director of Southall Black Sisters’ (SBS) advocacy and campaigning centre, and Suresh Grover, who is Co-Director of The Monitoring Group, one of the oldest anti-racist grassroots groups in Britain.

Find out more about this event here.

Hosted by Professor Barbara Casu Lukac this event will feature a panel discussion on how the UK's new relationship with the European Union impacts markets and the financial industry across the globe. This will be followed by a Q&A where you are invited to pose your own questions to the speakers and share your views. The panel includes Industry experts Elisabeth Øverland (Law, 2002), counsel in Freshfields' London financial services regulatory group, and Richard O'Connor (Business Studies, 1990), Global Head of Investor Relations at HSBC. 

This event will give you an excellent opportunity to learn about the latest news from Bayes Business School and engage in an expert talk about the financial industry with fellow alumni, students and academics.

Find out more about this event here.

The Student’s Union is excited to be hosting a Family and Career Planning event! The panel will include Khaled Hussain-Dupré, Shannon Filice, Gemma McNeil Walsh, and Barbara Jaworski. We will focus on: 

• The challenges we face at the intersection of our work and non-work lives
• The panel’s individual journey balancing a successful career and managing caregiving responsibilities
• Tips for planning your future
• An opportunity to engage with the staff at City, including our President Anthony Finkelstein, the Associate Dean of Student Experience Jane Bradley-Smith, and Senior Lecturer Dr John Stanton.

 Our Women’s Officer for the Student’s Union, Melissa Dubé will be hosting the event which will take place on Zoom on Wednesday 20th October, 1:00pm-3:00pm (GMT) & in The Birley Lecture Theatre (HG01). You can register by clicking the link below. Attendance open to anyone at City University. We hope to see you there!

 *This event will not be recorded.”

Find out more about this event here.

The Bar Association for Commerce, Finance and Industry (BACFI) and City Law School join forces to put on this popular annual event. Our expert panel will be giving their views on what it takes to succeed at the Employed Bar!

Speakers:

• Lady Rose of Colmworth DBE, Justice of the Supreme Court
• Daniel Byrne (Partner, AA Thornton & Co and Deputy District Judge)
• Sonia Hayes (Assistant Coroner)
• Patrick Rappo (Partner, DLA Piper)
• Sharon Blackman (Director and General Counsel, Citi Group)
• Thomas Keane (Former in-house Paralegal and Business and Property Pupil at No5 Chambers – London)

Please email events@bacfi.org or call 07507237218 and your Microsoft Teams invitation will be sent to you nearer the time of the event.

How does the law consider children in cases involving medical consent? 

This lecture will look at how doctors (and parents) should talk their children about illness. It will also consider what should happen when parents and doctors disagree about what a child should be told. The overall law on consent has changed markedly in England and Wales since Montgomery (2015), and requires doctors to share and explain risks, but it is not clear how far this applies to children, particularly older children.

Imogen Goold (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne’s College) is the speaker at this lecture. It forms part of the https://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/medical-law/ series organised and hosted by Gresham College.

It can be attended in person and is also streamed live.

Find out more about this event here.

Goblin Market is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti of some 570 lines published by Macmillan in 1862 as part of Rossetti’s first public collection of her work. The poem explores the twilight adventures over a period of months of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and their friend, Jeanie, at a fruit market run by ‘Goblin’ men. (Note there is no need for any prospective attendee to read the poem in advance; Professor Wheeler will tell its story in the course of her paper).

Notwithstanding Rossetti’s own assertion that Goblin Market was nothing more than a children’s story, critics have offered a range of allegorical interpretations of it ranging from, inter alia, a story about fallen women, a Tractarian soliloquy, an ode to sisterly love and a tale of the Feminine Christ. Whatever interpretative frame we put around Goblin Market the denouement of its story is the redemptive action that Lizzie takes to save her sister, Laura, through her brave encounter with the Goblins where she tries unsuccessfully to buy their fruit. 
 
Goblin Market has never been considered as a contract text. However it offers us the opportunity to compare and contrast a number of contractual settings some of which come within the bounds of contract law, others of which sit squarely outside this but within the life world of human experience. In this paper I identify and explore four distinctive transactions with different phases and degrees of completeness. They are, in broad terms, the status contract of marriage and the consequences that flow from that, the (un)enforceable prostitution contract, the contract for the purchase of goods and the relational social contract of obligation between sisters. All of these are influenced by the subtext of what it means for women to operate in the market place as subject or object.
 

Speaker: Professor Sally Wheeler, College of Law Australian National University

Chair: Professor Carl Stychin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and professor of law

Find out more about this event here.

The in-person event will explore pressing issues affecting women in prison, against the backdrop of the government's planned expansion of the women's estate. 

Chaired by Allison Bailey, the current lineup of speakers includes:

• Charlie Weinberg (Chair of Trustees, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies)
• Frances Crook OBE (Howard League for Penal Reform)
• Cátia Freitas (WPUK)
• Professor Jo Phoenix (The Open University)

Find out more about this event here.

You'll get the chance to speak to a wide range of chambers, gain insights from those working in the profession and get advice on a range of topics via the programme of talks. For an example of these, there is one available from last year's event on the TargetJobs YouTube Channel.

Find out more about this event here.

BCLP are pleased to be hosting a virtual open day in collaboration with BIUCAC. Join us on Wednesday 27 October to hear from partners, associates and trainees at the firm, in addition to receiving some hints and tips on tackling the assessment process from the Emerging Talent team. Sign up before 24 October.

Find out more about this event here.

The official launch of the 20th Pro Bono Week, recognising and supporting the voluntary contribution made by lawyers across the UK in giving free legal help to those in need. In this year of unprecedented challenges, for both the voluntary and legal sectors, pro bono legal help has never been more important.

We hope you can join us in person or online for what promises to be an fascinating evening.

18:00 Joining & networking

18:30 Welcome and panel session

The panel will be chaired by Toby Brown (chair of the Pro Bono Week organising committee), with the following panellists:

• Yasmin Waljee OBE (exploring pro bono across the last twenty years). Yasmin is the Hogan Lovells International Pro Bono Director and co-lead of the Social Impact Practice.
• Kirsty Thomson (exploring the current state of pro bono). Kirsty is Managing Partner/Director at JustRight Scotland, Scotland’s legal centre for justice and human rights.
• Emma Rehal-Wilde (exploring the future of pro bono). Emma teaches law at LSBU and previously worked in pro bono management within the legal sector for 12 years before moving into academia.

19:30 Networking (in person)

20:00 End

Find out more about this event here.

The exhibition takes places entirely online between 1-5 November 2021 and is organised by Chris Monaghan (University of Worcester) and Prof Matthew Flinders (University of Sheffield).

Keynote speakers include Baroness Hale (former President of UK Supreme Court), Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Lord David Blunkett (former Home Secretary), Prof Bruce Ackerman (Yale), Prof Margit Cohn (Hebrew University), Prof John Keane (Sydney), Prof Conor Gearty QC (LSE), Prof Vernon Bogdanor (King's College London), Baroness Manningham-Buller (former head of MI5 and current chair of Wellcome).

Highlights include the:

• Keynote Lecture on Impeachment in a Comparative Context (1 November)- this will be delivered by Prof Tom Ginsburg (Chicago) and with a response by Prof Anibal Perez-Linan (Notre-Dame).
• Keynote Panel Discussion on Judicial Review and Accountability (2 November)- this will include Baroness Hale, leading academics and lawyers and will be chaired by David Lock QC (Landmark Chambers).
• Keynote Speakers Event (3 November)- the speakers are drawn from around the world and will discuss various aspects of accountability.
• Keynote Panel Discussion on Impeachment (4 November)- speakers include Joshua Matz (the US House Judiciary Committee prosecution counsel in both Trump impeachments) and Karen Popp (Associate White House Counsel during the Clinton impeachment).
   

Register your place via emailingQofA2021@worc.ac.uk<mailto:QofA2021@worc.ac.uk

Find out more about this event here.

A panel event on the topic of in-house counsel and law firms working together to deliver pro bono effectively.

Speakers include:

• Mia Motiee (Bloomberg)
• David Boyd (Clifford Chance)
• Felicity Kirk (Ropes & Gray)
• Sarah Oliver Scemla (Bank of America)
• Refugee Action (speaker TBC).

Part of the Pro Bono Week activities

Find out more about this event here.

Panellists are:

• Iain Anderson (Executive Chairman, Cicero Group)
• I. Stephanie Boyce (President of the Law Society of England & Wales),
• Baroness Hale of Richmond (former President of the UK Supreme Court),
• James Harper (Executive Sponsor Rule of Law, LexisNexis)
• Baroness Helena Kennedy QC (Director of the IBA Human Rights Institute) 

There can be few times in the modern history of the UK where the Rule of Law has remained at the forefront of public attention and discussion for such a sustained period – whether it is governmental “tinkering” with judicial review, the backlog in the court system, to some concerning narrative about lawyers practicing in the immigration and criminal justice systems.

As important as that focus has been, it often leaves a hugely important question unanswered: where do we go from here?

Lawyers almost universally see the Rule of Law as fundamental, but that seems some way off outside of the profession? If we are to protect the Rule of Law (and drive an environment where upholding the Rule of Law is seen as non-negotiable), the public at large need to feel the same way.

Having considered this question previously, the panel will return to give an update on the “state of the union” of the Rule of Law in the UK. From there, we will turn to continue our debate on what can be done to begin to deliver this. Can the law, and justice be rebranded? Can businesses be made to care and champion the Rule of Law? What, or who might get the public to value access to justice?

Read an overview of the November 2020 event here and the June 2021 event here.

You can watch the full panel debate from Volunteers Week 2021 on YouTube (this panel included James Harper (LexisNexis) as a speaker and Catherine Baksi (award-winning journalist) was the chair):

Find out more about this event here.

The role of cities in redefining international law and international relations is increasingly a subject of interest. Whether tackling climate change through city networks or acting as “sanctuary” cities, cities have found innovative ways to (re)assert their role as international actors. Yet the role of border cities in international law remains underexplored. Border cities, often considered marginal or even suspect, have unique practical interactive and interpretive experiences on international law and international relations which provide insight into governance in borderlands and beyond.

Find out more about this event here.

Hear from Andrew Malkinson, serving a life sentence for a rape he didn’t commit, and the charity and pro bono legal team working to exonerate him. Andrew’s case demonstrates many of the problems which cause miscarriages of justice and prevent them being put right. As featured in the Times podcast “Seventeen Years: The Andrew Malkinson Story”.

Panel session chaired by Emily Bolton (APPEAL) with:

• Andrew Malkinson;
• Mair Williams (Linklaters);
• Amanda Raad (Ropes & Gray) and
• Max Harding (9 Bedford Row).

Find out more about this event here.

As part of Pro Bono Week, A4ID’s virtual event ‘A Celebration of International Pro Bono’ will showcase the ways in which pro bono can strengthen the rule of law around the world.? 

Join our speakers as they deliver a fast-paced and visual PechaKucha© -style presentation about the successes and lessons learned from partnerships between pro bono legal and judicial experts and their counterparts in developing countries. This dynamic evening will also include breakout events and networking to allow participants to connect and share their own knowledge on best practices for delivering effective international pro bono assistance, as well as opportunities to ask the speakers any questions.  

More details about the event speakers and programme will be announced soon. 

Please contact?roleuk@a4id.org?to register your interest in attending ‘A Celebration of International Pro Bono’. 

Find out more about this event here.

Panel event to celebrate the founding of the Free Representation Unit 50 years ago.

Find out more about this event here.

The first lecture in the 2021 Hamlyn Series will celebrate advocacy: that controversial legal issues are decided in court after reasoned argument in which the participants refrain (usually) from shouting, personal insults or threats, and the points on each side of the debate are tested for their relevance, their accuracy and their strength. The art of persuasion is now less valued in politics, but it remains of central importance to law. This lecture will seek to identify the central characteristics of good and bad advocacy with the aid of examples from courtrooms here and abroad. Though none of them will identify the machine by the secret use of which it was said that the 19th century advocate, James Scarlett (later Lord Abinger), "could always make the head of a judge nod assent to his propositions".  

Find out more about this event here.

Khatuna Tsintsadze is Co-director of the Zahid Mubarek Trust and we meet her in this third edition of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies webinar series 'Lunch with...'.

Find out more about this event here.

Judges, who are typically drawn from privileged backgrounds, wield vast power over the lives of the most marginalised people in society. This lecture will explore the role of judicial racism in perpetuating injustice and inequality in the legal system. The Lammy Review found gross disparities sentencing for Black and white defendants – while also finding no systematic racial bias in juries’ decisions to convict or acquit. What should we do about racism in the judiciary and the legal profession?

Speaker is Professor Leslie Thomas QC, who was appointed Gresham Professor of Law in 2020. 

You can register to attend in person 2 months before the event, or watch the livestream. 

Find out more about this event here.

Since the 1981 Brixton riots, many things have changed in British policing. However, Black people are still nine times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people, and three times more likely to be arrested; Black people are far more likely to be searched, arrested and prosecuted for using drugs, and yet are no more likely to use drugs than white people. 

This lecture explores the persistence of police racism and what we can do about it.

Speaker is Professor Leslie Thomas QC, who was appointed Gresham Professor of Law in 2020. 

You can register to attend in person or watch the livestream

Find out more about this event here.