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Join PBI UK, Lawyers Against Poverty and the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk in commemorating the Day of the Endangered Lawyer 2020 on a 90 min webinar.

Lord Phillips, first president of the UK Supreme Court, will introduce the webinar before running through the order of the night and presenting the film Defending the Rule of Law: Costs and Privileges.There will be two panel discussions after the film.

Panel 1: Perspectives from the field

Former chairwoman of the Bar Human Rights Committee and Head of International Human Rights Team at Doughty Street Chambers, Kirsty Brimelow QC will introduce our first panel, who will address the obstacles to upholding the rule of law, risks faced by lawyers, and structural changes to the profession over the past year.

Speakers:

• Colombian human rights lawyer German Romero
• Kenyan Human rights paralegal Stephen Kinuthia
• Nepalese human rights lawyer Mandira Sharma
• Former UK ambassador to Colombia and Cuba and PBI UK patron John Dew

Panel 2: The rule of law and the international community

Simmons & Simmons partner and Lawyers Against Poverty member Chris Owen will introduce our next panel, with a focus on support and capacity building from the legal and the political community to lawyers and other rule of law defenders.

• Guy Beringer (Rule of Law Bingham Centre/Alliance for Lawyers at Risk)
• Emma Lough (Lawyers Against Poverty)
• Sue Wilman (Law Society of England and Wales/Caravana UK Lawyers)
• PBI UK Director Susi Bascon

Find out more via the PBI UK website.

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The Senior European Experts group and the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at The City Law School, City, University of London organise a webinar on ‘The UK and the EU Relationship: What Next?’ on 27 January 2021 at 5-630pm. 

We discuss the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement: How will it work in practice? What are its political and legal implications? How will it affect policies that have attracted considerable attention during the negotiations? Will further agreements be needed?

To discuss these critical issues, we have assembled an experienced panel chaired by Professor Sir Alan Dashwood QC, a former Director in the EU Council Secretariat:

* David Hannay, Lord Hannay of Chiswick CH, on the political overview; 
* Panos Koutrakos, Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law, City, University of London, on the legal aspects; 
* Anne Lambert, former UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU, current non-executive director of UK Civil Aviation Authority, on the Single Market and regulation; 
* Andy Lebrecht, former UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the EU and UK fisheries counsellor in Brussels, on fisheries; 
* Jackie Minor, formerly the Head of the European Commission Representation in the UK and former Director in the Commission, on the view from Brussels and the 27.

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• Equality?
• Diversity?
• Inclusion?

What's it all about?

Helen Mahy, Commissioner at the Equality & Human Rights Commission, formerly an employed barrister and General Counsel at National Grid plc, will be sharing her views.

To register or if you have any queries please email events@bacfi.org or call 07507237218. There are limited spaces. 

Hosted by BACFI and the Bar Council.

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3VB are proud to be hosting an Access to the Bar Virtual Event on Thursday 28th January, open to all individuals from a Black and minority ethnic background who are interested in pursuing a career at the Bar.This is an exclusive opportunity to hear directly from Commercial barristers from diverse backgrounds working across the Commercial Bar, about the paths they took to get where they are; the work that they undertake and things that you can do in order to succeed.

Speakers:

• Ali Malek QC
• Farhaz Khan
• Teniola Onabanjo

Email Nicola Birkett at nbirkett@3vb.com for more details on how to join this session.

Gresham College lecture

Speaker: Professor Leslie Thomas QC

Is there is a level playing field between participants at inquests? What does ‘equality of arms’ mean? Is such a concept appropriate when looking at inquests? Are inquiries better? 

How have they developed since the IRA Death on The Rock case? What are the problems faced by those representing families, is there a case for fundamental change? If so what model should we adopt to replace the present system?

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The Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at City, University of London and Reed Smith bring together well-known participants with business, policy and legal experience to consider the UK’s new customs regime and Border Operating Model.  

Topics to be examined include:
The UK’s Border Operating Model in practice
Establishing proving and cumulating origin
Re-ordering supply chains
GB ↔ NI trade and the Protocol
Customs transit: using the UK land bridge
Changing contracts for the supply of goods

Participants:
Timothy Lyons QC, 39 Essex Chambers (Chair), Hon Visiting Professor, City, University of London
Sam Lowe, Centre for European Reform
Anna Jerzewska, Trade and Borders
William Bain, British Retail Consortium
Peter Ferrigno, Reed Smith, London
Siobhan Aarons, Delphi Technologies
 

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Chambers attending are Garden Court, Cloisters, Essex Court, 5 Essex court, Henderson and Foundry Chambers.

Why did stories of criminals become irresistible for novelists? Starting with works like Moll Flanders in the eighteenth century, this lecture goes on to examine the role of criminals in Dickens, keen to let his readers and characters experience what Pip in Great Expectations calls ‘the taint of crime’. To what ends? 

How does the recent genre fiction of novelists like Patricia Highsmith and Ruth Rendell return us to the transgressive pleasures of Defoe’s criminal autobiographies?

Professor John Mullan, Visiting Gresham Professor of English Literature gives this online lecture.

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Join the Royal Holloway Centre for International Security (RHISC) for a talk from Professor Aoife O'Donoghue (Durham University).

Professor O’Donoghue will discuss her current work on locating tyranny in the global legal order. After her presentation, Dr Daniela Lai will lead discussion bringing together synergies with international relations.

The event will be hosted via Microsoft Teams and details of how to join will follow.

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Gresham College lecture

Speaker: Professor Leslie Thomas QC

We hear too often about sudden death in adults following prolonged and often unnecessary police restraint. What do people know about the dangers of restraint and how widespread is our understanding of such deaths? 

This talk explores the legal implications facing the state and what steps can be taken and implemented to save more lives and have safer policing. 

Do these deaths disproportionately affect African Caribbean men given recent BAME stop and search statistics?

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Gresham College lecture

Speaker: Professor Thomas Grant QC

In the wake of the decision in the parliamentary prorogation case Miller (No.2), the question of the politics of the judiciary has been thrust into the public eye. Was it “a constitutional coup” as some have claimed? 

The Government has promised to “update the Human Rights Act” and review the “relationship between the government, parliament and the courts”. 

Will this limit the power of the judiciary to do justice? Do British judges have too much “power” and are they over-politicised?

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“What improvements, if any, should be made to the Human Rights Act 1998? Why are they needed?”

Join The Law Society as they examine this question posed in the 2021 Graham Turnbull essay competition, in partnership with the Graham Turnbull Memorial Fund.

With the Independent Human Rights Act Review underway and considering whether reforms are needed, they will be looking back at 20 years of the Human Rights Act and where we go from here. They will be joined by speakers to share their thoughts on the Review and the essay competition question.

The winner of the essay competition will be announced during the event. To find out more about the Graham Turnbull essay competition and details on how to enter, visit the Law Society website.

This event is held in memory of Graham Turnbull, an English solicitor who was killed while working as a UN human rights monitor in Rwanda. The Law Society honours Graham’s commitment to human rights through an essay competition and lecture, which encourages law students and junior lawyers to examine current pressing human rights issues and to consider their impact on the wider system of human rights and law.

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