20 May, 6.30pm
Are super jails the answer to the prison crisis, or what are the alternatives?
Including: Rt Hon David Hanson MP (Minister of State for the Ministry of Justice), Erwin James (Guardian columnist and former prisoner), Anders Lustgarten (playwright and prison lecturer), Juliet Lyon (Director of the Prison Reform Trust) and Peter Thornton QC (Senior Circuit Judge at the Old Bailey and trustee of the Howard League for Penal Reform).
27 May, 6.30pm
Is knife crime the product of a deviant subculture, or a logical reaction to life on the street? Including: Susannah Hancock (London Manger of the Youth Justice Board), Chris McDonald (Acting Detective Chief Superintendent and Head of Operation Blunt) and Jason Neish (former prisoner and facilitator and mentor for the National Youth Theatre Young Offenders Programme).
3 June, 6.30pm
Does forgiveness have any part to play in the criminal justice system?
Including: Tim Newell (restorative worker and former prison governor), Marian Partington (author of Salvaging the Sacred: Lucy, My Sister. Lucy was a victim of Fred and Rosemary West), John Podmore (Senior Operational Advisor for Offender Health and former prison governor), Peter Woolf (former career criminal and author of The Damage Done), alongside Will Riley, one of his victims and chairman of Why Me.
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We are launching a several new features on Lawbore between now
and the end of the summer and need your help.
The first is a monthly photo competition. All you
need to do is submit a portfolio of 10-15 photographs which you
think loosely sum up 'life as a City law student'. These
will then be added to Lawbore as a regular feature. No rules as
such, although keep in mind that these will be available for all to
see, so perhaps not too much nudity!
We expect these to be imaginative, fun and eye catching. Entries to me by 12th May please. These will then be used on Lawbore. There's £20 of Amazon vouchers to be won.
Secondly we're looking to create short video clips for all the subjects in the Topic Guides (e.g. contract, tort, media etc etc…) with students telling Lawbore users what that subject is all about (in their own words). So if you fancy getting a starring role and will be up for being available sometime over the early summer for a couple of hours then please email me.
Exciting news for those of you frustrated with the library
closing at 9pm!
It has been agreed that extended opening hours will operate at the
University Library in the week leading up to the exam period and
for the four weeks of the exams.
The Library will be open from 28th April until 30th May
from 9am until midnight from Monday to Friday and from 12
noon until 6pm on Saturday and Sunday. However, it will be closed
as usual on the 2 May Bank Holidays.
You will all have access to study space (excluding Level 6), PC labs, self-issue and print resources although Short Loan and desk services will not be available during this time.
This is a pilot scheme that is in response to student demand -
we'll be conducting a web survey in the coming
weeks to help identify what you require in terms of extended
opening hours and the services you might need at this time - so
look out for it!
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Westlaw is a huge database containing cases, legislation and journal articles. Searching for cases within Westlaw is a joy, particularly thanks to the Case Analysis function. This cool tool almost does your research for you, listing lots of extra stuff about a case; its history, where its been cited subsequently and, best of all, all the journal articles which talk about your case.
Law report series included in Westlaw include the Weekly Law Reports (WLR), The Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc), Fleet Street Reports (FSR), Common Market Law Reports (CMLR) and Housing Law Reports amongst others.
The journal collection is admirable; including the Conveyancer (Conv), Criminal Law Review (Crim L.R.), European Law Review (E.L.Rev), Law Quarterly Review (LQR), Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (OJLS) and Public Law (P.L.) as well as loads more...
LNB is an immense database with access to cases, legislation and
journal articles. Practitioner texts are also available, including
Blackstones Criminal Practice, Lester & Pannick: Human Rights
Law and Practice, Paget's Law of Banking, Whish: Competition Law
amongst 149 others.
You can also access really monster LNB publications - Halsbury's Laws (the legal encyclopedia) and Halsbury's Statutes amongst them.
Law report-wise you can find many key series in LNB: All England Law Reports (All ER), The Law Reports (AC, QB, Ch etc), Times Law Reports (TLR) amongst others.
Access using your library barcode and PIN.
HeinOnline is an American database which offers access to a huge number of journals. Unlike Lexis or Westlaw it generally offers full coverage of journal titles, ie. from volume 1, issue 1.
It offers a wide selection of American Journals with extensive coverage, eg. Harvard Law Review (1887-), Yale Law Journal (1891-).
Its collection of English journals is growing and key ones to remember are as follows: Cambridge Law Journal (1921-), Industrial Law Journal (1972-1997), International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1952-), Law Quarterly Review (1885-), Legal Studies (1981-)
Access using your library barcode and PIN.
British Company Law Library is a service which contains a variety of materials relating to Company Law. These include:
• British Company Cases (BCC) from 1983 onwards
• Commentary from British Company Law and Practice
• British Companies Legislation (all relevant material)
Access is via CD-ROM in the library only. You will require an
individual usercode and password. Please contact the Law Librarian
for further details. Further help can be obtained on 020 7393 7266
or by emailing techsupport@sweetandmaxwell.co.uk