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Digital exclusion has to be reckoned with in court modernisation as @CitizensAdvice argues and @richardsusskind and @HMCTSgovuk deny - t.co/XEudWkaE3c9 Apr 2019
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Has a member of staff at City made a big impact on you? Vote in the Academic Impact Awards!
The Academic Impact Awards are your chance to reward the members of staff and students that have helped shape your University academic experience, through their teaching, support, innovation and through representation. Categories as follows:
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- Personal tutor of the year
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Finding things tough and need a listening ear?
Life as a law student can be tough at times…..
If you are finding things difficult and would like to talk to someone, your Student Welfare Officer, Su Cassidy will be available in A221 (College Building second floor, near spiral staircase) at the following times:
Tuesdays 1.00-3.00 pm
Wednesdays 2.00-4.00 pm
Fridays 10.00 am-12.00
You can book an appointment with Su at another time or at Gray’s Inn Place by emailing cls.support@city.ac.uk
Do you have friends/family in need of legal advice?
The City Law School runs 3 clinics which are free for members of the public, where they would offer one-off advice to clients.
- General Civil Law Day Clinic which runs on Tues and Weds at Princeton Street
- General Civil Law Evening Clinic which runs on Thursday evenings from 6.30-8.00pm at Princeton Street
- Specialised Employment Law Clinic which runs on Tuesday evenings from 6.30-8.00pm at Princeton Street
All a member of the public has to do is call 02070400341 to make an appointment.
Evening General Civil Clinics are on the following dates:
- 8th Nov 2018
- 29th Nov 2018
- 10th Jan 2019
- 24th Jan 2019
- 14th Mar 2019
- 11th Apr 2019
The Specialised Employment Law Clinic are on the following dates:
- 20th Nov 2018
- 11th Dec 2018
- 15th Jan 2019
- 12th Mar 2019
- 2nd Apr 2019
- 7th May 2019
The Day Clinics (running on Tues and Wed) are taking appointments now and for the foreseeable future.
Accessing the FT online
Those of you wanting to improve your commercial awareness will know that the Financial Times is a useful tool for this.
Those of you who already have an account with ft.com will now need to re-register.
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Upcoming Law Events
23rd April 2019
The European Parliament (EP), Elections and Brexit: an Evening with Claude Moraes, Chairperson of the EP LIBE Committee
Venue: AG03 College Building City, University of London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB
The European Parliament is increasingly in the spotlight for its growing politicisation and rising legal competences. Claude Moraes, Labour MEP for London and Chairperson of the ‘LIBE’ Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament, arguably the EP’s most powerful and globally significant committee, will give a talk at City Law School on Tuesday 23 April at 6.00pm.
Legal Opinion is divided on whether the UK should be required to hold EP elections while still a member of the EU without having formally left the EU or whether flexibility can be shown to core institutional principles, representative democracy and evolving constitutional affairs. The EP itself looks set to play a fundamental role going forward in UK-EU negotiations on a future trade relationship. What practices and principles are of note? As part of an emerging transnational regulator, the EP is increasingly involved in global regulation e.g. as to Facebook, hearing evidence from Mark Zuckerberg who refused to appear before national parliaments and committees, including the UK parliament. Often decried as politically unimportant and a talking-shop by politicians and media in the UK, at a global level the EP is accorded greater credibility and political space because of the ever-growing global reach of EU law. Claude Moraes shares his thoughts as outgoing chair of arguably the most important European Parliament committee, the LIBE committee.
The talk will consider the role of the European Parliament in the Brexit negotiations, whether the UK needs to legally hold European Parliament elections and the transnational dimension to civil liberties e.g. where the EP is involved in the transnational regulation of data, security and terrorism.
Seminar Series: Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL) and Constitutional Law
Guest Speaker: Claude Moraes, Labour MEP for London, Chair LIBE Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament
Chair: Prof. Elaine Fahey, City Law School
Discussants: Dr Elizabeth O’ Loughlin, City Law School; Dr Adrienne Yong, City Law School
30th April 2019
A Penny for your Thoughts? Issues when mind data goes wild
Venue: IALS, 17 Russell Square, London
Speaker: Dr Paul Lambert, IALS Visiting Research Fellow
Aspirations and research into mind data and neurodata have been developing recently. This raises issues of transparency, ethics and personal data. However, the laboratory setting and medical environment is about to be left behind as developers seek to release commercial applications in the mass market - far, far away from the reasonable expectations of diligence and consent of individuals. Policy debate is needed in the face of the impending wild west battle for your thoughts.
2nd May 2019
Association of Women Barristers Film and Panel Event: Film Screening of 'The Judge'
Venue: City University Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Atkin Building, Gray's Inn Place, London WC1R 5BQ
A film about the journey of Judge Khaloud Al-Faqih and her appointment as the first female judge in the Shari’a Courts in Palestine
‘Glass-ceiling-shattering’ Holywood Reporter
Followed by a panel discussion on breaking through glass ceilings in law and other disciplines
Panel
Chair: Lynne Townley, Chair of the Association of Women Barristers
Panel members:
Amerdeep Somal, Judge of the First Tier Tribunal and Asylum Chamber and Social Entitlement Chamber.
Dr Sandy Spencer, a senior medical practitioner who also holds senior regulatory positions within the NHS.
Samir Pasha, a lawyer specialising in human rights, extradition and criminal law. In 2011 he was a Human Rights Law Association bursary winner for his work in the West Bank, occupied Palestinian Territory. Samir worked for Defence for Children International (DCI), based in Ramallah. DCI are an international advocacy NGO that focus on protecting and representing Palestinian children.
Carl Allen, management consultant and global leader of IBM’s Cognitive Applications and Consulting Services Team. IBM won the 2018 Catalyst Award for Advancement of Women in the Workplace and Best Company for multicultural women working together in 2017.
THIS IS A FREE EVENT WITH WINE AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED BY THE AWB
TO REGISTER PLEASE EMAIL: BRIGITTA.BALOGH@CITY.AC.UK
2nd May 2019
The Child and Medical Treatment: the Chance to Live, or Die with Dignity?
Venue: Barnard's Inn Hall Holborn London EC1N 2HH [ map to venue (new window) ]
What happens when doctors and parents cannot agree on whether a child should be given experimental medical treatment? Why is there any question mark over a parent’s right to decide if medical treatment for their child continues?
From the parents of Aysha King who successfully secured proton beam therapy for their son to the despair surrounding baby Charlie Gard and his life-limiting genetic disorder: how does the court make decisions that can potentially prolong life or bring about the death of a child?
No reservations are required for this lecture. It will be run on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the lecture
Read more at the Gresham College website.
14th May 2019
Is there danger ahead with AI?
Venue: Museum of London 150 London Wall Barbican London EC2Y 5HN [ map to venue (new window) ]
Professor Wilks will discuss the argument that ‘superintelligent’ AI may turn against us, as Hawking and Bostrom have warned. It will be argued that these worries misrepresent the achievements and potential of AI, and that the ethical dilemmas of AI will be deeper and more challenging than just managing idleness due to automation, or how to blame an automated car in a crash. They will include how to treat the artificial Companions created to curate our own lifetimes of information.
No reservations are required for this lecture. It will be run on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the lecture
Read more via the Gresham College website.
19th June 2019
City University Graduate Jobs Fair
The countdown to launching your graduate career begins now!
You will get an opportunity to meet employers from across a range of industries who are keen to engage with you. Many of these employers will be shortlisting on the day so check and print your CV, dress smartly and come along!
Examples of Fair exhibitors:
- Ark Teacher Training
- FDM Group
- Sparta Global
- Beyond Autism
- F-LEX
- Tata Consultancy Services
- Bright Young Things Tuition
- LondonEnergy
- Teach First
- City Year UK
- Optionis
- Unitemps
- DXW Digital
- Pioneer Search Ltd
- VIU
- East London Foundation Trust
- Projee UK Ltd
- X4 Group
- Eldwick Law
- Reed
Book your spot now via CareersHub: https://buff.ly/2T0napv
3rd July 2019
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure
Venue: Room 2X112, Bristol Business School (X Block), Frenchay Campus
Join us for a one-day conference at UWE Bristol Law School on the topic “The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?” This event is sponsored by the annual Socio-Legal Scholars Association's Annual Seminar Series and the Centre for Applied Legal Research (CALR). Organised by Ed Johnston from our Criminal Justice Research Unit.
The confirmed speakers for the conference are:
Anthony Edwards is a criminal defence solicitor who specialises in corruption, fraud and major crime. He is widely acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on Police Station law and he has published widely in the areas of criminal procedure.
Anthony will be speaking on the topic 'Contemporary issues with disclosure in the police station'.
Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah is an Assistant Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. Her research interests focus on criminal procedure and fair trial rights. Her recent book, Defendant Participation in the Criminal Process, examines how the disclosure provisions of the CrimPR compel the defendant to actively participate in their own criminal trial. The book examines how the adversarial criminal process can be effected by essentially non-adversarial provisions.
Abeena will be speaking on the topic 'Reconsidering defence disclosure'.
Dr Hannah Quirk is a reader in Criminal Law at Kings College London. Her research interests centre around wrongful convictions and sentences. She has published extensively on the erosion of the Right to Silence and wrongful convictions.
Hannah will be speaking on the topic 'Uncovering disclosure errors: Appeals and the CCRC'.
Databases
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i-law
i-law is THE database for those interested in maritime and commercial law. At City we subscribe to the Maritime and Insurance & Reinsurance modules.
Prime resources include Lloyds Law Reports and the Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
This database requires an individual username and password - ask your library for this.
LexisLibrary
Lexis 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 Lexis 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 IT username and password.
- Connect to the database
- Essential user guide (perfect for a quick overview)
- Full user guide
- Connectors guide
- Add something to your CV - complete the online Research Certification
Need extra help? Kristina Voronenko is your LexisNexis Student Associate and can provide online research support to students and staff.
Westlaw
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...
- Connect to database
- Watch videos on using Westlaw
- Getting started with Westlaw
- Get Westlaw certification
- Technical/searching difficulties? Phone Westlaw free on 0800 028 2200 or fill in the online query form.
HeinOnline
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 IT username and password.
There's a Hein App now too - http://home.heinonline.org/heinonline-app/
All databases require a City Law School student account for access. If you have trouble using a database, please email the Law Library or use the helpdesk form.
Databases
Database carousel
The most popular legal subscription databases are accessible using the quick-link buttons. The rest of the databases can be browsed with the databases carousel below.
This service hosts the Family Court Reports, Duckworth's Matrimonial Property & Finance and Hershman and McFarlane: Children Law & Practice.
This excellent service provides online access to recordings from radio and TV - has the whole Radio 4 Law in Action series. Like BBC iPlayer but there's no expiry date for programmes.
Login and then search for City as the institution to enable your personalised login.
Chatham House Online Archive contains the research, publications, speeches and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920.
Ideal for those of you interested in International Law (it
contains the British Yearbook of International Law), the UN or
International Security, War and Conflict.
Massive reference tool - dictionaries, encyclopedias...
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) now includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
Human Rights Studies Online is a research & learning database providing comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide.
It provides primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than 30 additional subjects.
Includes Lloyds Law Reports (Insurance & Reinsurance and Professional Negligence), as well as many key practitioner texts, practice notes and the relevant legislation.
This service from Jordan Publishing includes Gore-Browne on Companies.
This service from Jordans comprises the journal Family Law, the Family Law Reports and Hershman & MacFarlane on Children.
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. It 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.
JustCite is a legal search engine and citator service that cross-references case law, legislation and journal articles.
JustCite indexes content from all major online legal publishers and links you to content to which we subscribe.
Developed and maintained by Kluwer in conjunction with theICCA and the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration contains expert commentary and a large collection of primary sources, including ICC Cases and Awards. Key books include: Blackaby: Redfern & Hunter, Born: INternational Commercial Arbitration and the Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration. Journals are fab - Arbitration International and the Journal of International Arbitration.
Get access to cases, as well as PI essentials like Kemp & Kemp.
Linex Legal is a commercial current awareness service. It presents material provided by major law firms and government institutions. In addition to its website, it provides a weekly email alerter with links to the latest articles published in subscribers' chosen practice areas. city Law School students should register using their City University email addresses to qualify for free access.
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by a team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year.
Keep up to date with cases, legislation and regulatory material affecting the print and broadcast media. Excellent resource for media lawyers, journalists, editors and reporters.
Search news via area of law or reverse chronologically.
Access via a specialist username/password (available on request from the Law Library). Bear in mind only one person can use it at a time.
News-tastic! Includes over 12,000 news sources, newspapers, newsletters, magazines and trade journals including over 450 International publications, with over 250 newswires updated continuously, many within minutes of publication.
These 4 modules provide access to a total of 90 eBooks in the following subject areas:
- International Commercial Law
- International Commercial Arbitration
- Finance and Banking Law
- Private International Law
This resource brings together decisions on public international law from a range of courts; from international to domestic. As well as the decisions themselves you also get access to detailed commentary and analysis.
There are 5 modules: International Law in Domestic Courts, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Investment Claims and International Courts of General Jurisdiction.
This part of the Oxford International Law collection gives access to 70 OUP titles from key authors in International Law - Brownlie, Higgins and Crawford. Contains Simma's Charter of the UN and Oppenheim too. Alerts available to be notified when content changes.
Huge collection of e-books from OUP. Check out the latest list of titles available.
Electronic Journals, Reports and Texts
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All the e-journals, reports and texts available to City Law School students are collected on our separate E-texts Library where they are freely searchable and sortable according to many different categories and keywords.
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