Lawbore City Hub

Join us for a conversation with Tina Carlile, Senior Counsel for International Trade at BP, as she walks us through her varied career path from a small farm in rural Texas to being an international trade negotiator. Tina is a firm believer in taking advantage of opportunities when they present themselves and has spent a good bit of her career moving between legal and programmatic roles in the U.S. Dept’s of State and Homeland Security, consulting, and the private sector. She will share with you key lessons she has learned along the way as she has found a career and a profession that she is passionate about.

Open to City students only.

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Morning Session (1130-13:00): The Role of the Courts

This session would explore some of the main Brexit cases that have taken place (Miller I & II, Scottish Continuity Bill, Wightman, etc.), but from different perspectives and at multiple levels: domestic (High Court & UK Supreme Court), domestic-devolved (Scotland), and supra-national (EU). In particular it will discuss how the judiciary has handled its role throughout the Brexit process, including scrutiny of its strengths, weaknesses, powers, and limits. 

Panel: Paul Craig (Oxford), Aileen McHarg (Durham), Alison Young (Cambridge)

Afternoon Session (1400-1530): Court Criticism, Democracy and the Rule of Law

This session would critically examine, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the wider impact on the judiciary that Brexit has brought about. From the “Enemies of the People” headline to the bombshell prorogation case, the judiciary has encountered a wide variety of criticism throughout the Brexit process. 

Panel: Jack Simson Caird (UK Parliament), Irini Katsirea (Sheffield), Chris Hanratty (Royal Holloway)

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In this event, the team that maps LawTech and Innovation Ecosystems will present their latest research on the "make-or-buy" dilemma when it comes to adoption of LawTech.

Schedule:

1.00pm - 1.30pm: Online networking (feel free to bring your own refreshments)

1.30pm - 2.15pm: Opening talk

2.15pm - 2.45pm: Q&A

2.45pm - 3.00pm: Open discussion

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This year's BACFI Denning Lecture will be given by Michael Sosso, Senior Vice President Legal – Gas & Low Carbon Energy and Customer & Products, BP.

Chaired by Ian Brookes-Howells

This event is free for all to join but you must register beforehand.

To register or if you have any queries, please email events@bacfi.org or call  07507237218

Kindly sponsored by:

www.bacfi.org

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Hosted by the Corporate and Financial Law Research Group at the University of Glasgow School of Law, this event splits into two panels:

• Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Law
• ArtificialIntelligenceandInsuranceLaw

Find the programme online and register your indication to attend.

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How do we investigate violent and unexpected deaths at the inquest? 

Who investigates? When do deaths get referred to the Coroner? Are inquests non-adversarial and inquisitorial? When do you have a jury? What are findings, determinations and conclusions (aka verdicts)? Can you appeal? Is the process transparent to the public and user friendly? Fit for purpose or in need of reform?

Professor Leslie Thomas QC is the current Gresham Professor of Law and will be doing a series of 6 lectures over the course of the coming year.

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This series of monthly remote workshops organised on the Zoom platform by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies during the 2020-21 academic year seeks to ‘make sense’ of the wide ranging relationship between law and the pandemic through the insights of the humanities, broadly understood as the set of cultural influences which are shaping the use of law and the responses to it. Authors will present theirwork in progress for twenty minutes, followed by questions from the audience and discussion. The intention is to publish the papers following the completion of the series.

This third session features:

Penal System and Biopolitics in the time of Covid-19 Pandemic: An Indonesian Experience
Harison Citrawan, Ministry of Law & Human RIghts, Republic of Indonesia
Sabrina Nadilla, Ministry of Law & Human Rights, Republic of Indonesia

Walls and Bridges: Metaphors of Movement and Constraint in Legal Responses to COVID-19
David Gurnham, University of Southampton

Security and the Pandemic: A View from Hong Kong
Marco Wan, University of Hong Kong

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About this Event

This event marks the formal introduction of Lord Carnwath as Honorary Professor in the UCL Faculty of Laws, and member of the Centre of Law and Environment. In this conversation about environmental law, Lord Carnwath will discuss his experiences of environmental law, as a practitioner, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judge, patron of the UK Environmental Law Association, and leading member of global environmental networks. Professor Scotford and Lord Carnwath will also discuss future challenges for environmental law, including the challenges of climate change.

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Hosted by the UKELA, this webinar will discuss the outcome of the negotiations on a future trade and security
relationship between the UK and the EU. If a deal is struck, the focus will be on the content of the
agreement, the prospects for its successful implementation and the possible development of a deeper
relationship between the UK and the EU in the longer term. In the (less likely) event of no deal, speakers
will debate the implications of this failure of diplomacy for the UK’s future relations with the EU, its
economic prospects and its place in the world, as well as the impact on the situation in Northern Ireland
and on the Government’s hoped-for trade agreement with the USA.

Speakers as follows:
Lord Hannay, Sir Jonathan Faull, Professor Marise Cremona and Professor Anand Menon (all leading practitioners and academic experts in the field of EU/UK relations)

The webinar will be introduced and the discussion chaired by Sir Alan Dashwood QC.

Tickets are £5 for students.

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This year’s virtual Student Open Day will take place via Zoom on Monday 14th December at 1:30pm.

The event is for prospective applicants for traineeship at Matrix that are thinking about applying in the forthcoming round this year, to commence traineeship in October 2022. The open day will last approximately 1.5 hours and will combine both our usual Student Open Day and Diversity Open Evening.

Please click here to register for the Open day. There is no charge to attend the event, and if you have any additional requirements please email Zuwaina Nelson.

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Gresham College lecture

Speaker: Professor Thomas Grant QC

Is the jury system the bulwark of individual liberty? 

This lecture will look at the role of the so-called “perverse jury” in acquitting defendants where the law, or the charge itself, is deemed unjust. Famous examples are Kempton Bunton (for the “theft” of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington in the 1960s), Clive Ponting, and Randle and Pottle. 

But the jury can also be a bastion of prejudice: white juries habitually acquitted white defendants in the US in race violence cases. Does the jury system need improvement? Should its right to deliver a perverse verdict be curtailed?

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

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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