4 amazing speakers will give advice for building your cv, completing pupillage applications, performance at interview and the share their experiences.

• Jamie Hamilton QC
• Helen Longworth
• Joanna Hardy
• Beheshteh Engineer

Places are limited and those interested should send an email to internship@9sjs.com with your name, email address, date of birth and the current stage you are at (school, university etc).

Closing date for applications = 3rd August @ 4pm.

The Legal Cheek UK Virtual Law Fair Series runs throughout autumn 2020, with four fairs taking place in September, October, November and December. Each has capacity for 5,000 students, making them the largest legal careers events in the UK.

Drawing on Legal Cheek‘s unparalleled law student subscriber and follower base, as well its extensive campus ambassador network, the fairs give students from all parts of the UK the opportunity to meet the nation’s leading law firms from their laptops. Students based overseas who intend to qualify as solicitors and are eligible to work in the UK are also encouraged to attend.

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This lecture will focus on human rights and the wrongs of unexpected and/or sudden deaths in which the state is implicated. 

It will cover the importance of a proper death investigation, the impact on the family and state, how Magna Carta influences death investigations 800 years on, and current trends and statistics in state deaths. 

How does the state show it cares when deaths occur? Does the state learn lessons? How can the bereaved move on?

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

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Bookings are open for the Legal Cheek Virtual Pupillage Fair on Saturday 3 October.

The fair features barristers and pupillage committees from the nation's leading chambers.

Each participating chambers has a branded virtual booth with a livestream that allows students to join in video chats with lawyers, graduate recruitment experts and trainees. Students can also submit written questions in the live chats and browse custom chambers content. Meanwhile, there is an option to replace your video livestream with static video content for periods during the pupillage fair.

The booths are located within a virtual expo hall, which students can wander through, visiting the various booths.

During the law fair students can join separate 30-minute long themed workshops by different chambers taking place at scheduled times during the course of the event.

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Traditionally a lawyer’s own views and political affiliation are irrelevant to the pursuit of the legal process. 

This lecture will examine – and celebrate – the work of lawyers who have crossed the usual lines and worked for political change. It will look at the life of South African advocate Bram Fischer, who defended Nelson Mandela at the Rivonia trial, and was himself prosecuted for sabotage and sentenced to life in prison. 

It will consider modern examples of lawyers paying a heavy price for political engagement, as well as the ethical issues which are engaged – how far can a lawyer go?

Professor Thomas Grant QC has 4 lectures in the Gresham programme for this year, called The politics of the courtroom.

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The academic year, and legal education “as usual”, endured an unexpected and unsettling upheaval in 2020.  The pandemic produced a steep learning curve for law teachers and students, forced to shift into virtual classroom mode.  In this seminar, Professor Shauna van Praagh explores what she refers to as the “3 R’s” of remote legal education: resistance, reflection, and re-creation.  Resistance flows from an insistence on the importance of presence and proximity in legal education. Reflection underscores the importance of pausing to consider the “why” and “how” at a time educators rush to respond to the “what” of on-line tools.  Finally, re-creation suggests the potential for re-imagining active and interactive learning in law in ways that outlive any virus. This seminar is grounded in Professor van Praagh’s experience of teaching a “Legal Education” course at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and as the initiator of a collection of pandemic-related essays by legal academics across Canada (Law and Learning in the Time of Pandemic: A Collage).

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Tom Sargant was JUSTICE’s Secretary – broadly equivalent to today’s Director – from its foundation in 1957 to his retirement in 1982.

As a result of his commitment, persistence and determination, JUSTICE played a key role in taking up the cause of miscarriage of justice cases. His tireless campaigning resulted in some 25 people being released, or released early, from prison. He was instrumental in many of the cases featured in the BBC Rough Justice series.

Tom also played a major role in bringing about other key measures such as the creation of the office of Ombudsman and the establishment of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme.

He died in 1988.

Each year, we recognise Tom’s work by inviting a high profile speaker – from practice, the judiciary, academia or politics to speak at the Memorial Lecture.

More details to come!

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This webinar shall begin with a talk on the topic as described in the above working title of up to 40 min. A succeeding Q&A session shall allow an intense discussion of the topic. Artificial Intelligence including all of its forms and shapes is on top of the agenda of international, supranational and national policy makers, legislators, regulators and supervisors as well as in society as a whole due to its potential of profound disruption. The seminar shall allow insight into the legal (-methodological) approach to the topic with a focus particularly on selected manifestations of artificial intelligence in financial markets.

Speaker: Professor Gudula Deipenbrock

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The ILPC is delighted to announce that Lord Clement Jones CBE will deliver this year’s ILPC Annual Lecture. Lord Clement-Jones is Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Co-Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.

We are also pleased to confirm several keynote speakers for the conference, including:
Ellis Parry (Information Commissioner’s Office)
Joanna Bryson (Hertie School, Berlin; University of Bath)
Silkie Carlo (Big Brother Watch)
Julian Huppert (University of Cambridge; Home Office Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group)
Graham Smith (Bird and Bird)
Lorna Woods (University of Essex)
Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London; Brave Software)

This event is free but advanced booking is required. It is a 2 day conference (19-20th November)

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Organised by Elisabeth Griffiths, Associate Professor and Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Northumbria Law School, and Dr Frances Hamilton, Senior Lecturer and Co-Convenor of the Gender, Sexuality and Law Research Interest Group, Northumbria Law School.

If you would like to reserve a place or submit an abstract (of up to 200 words), please email Elisabeth Griffiths or Frances Hamilton.

This event is kindly supported by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Northumbria University.

Speakers Include:

• Julie Elliot MP
• Dr Frances Ryan (Guardian columnist)
• Robin Allen QC
• Dr Jennifer Aston
• Dr Judith Bourne
• Professor Jamie Callahan
• Mark Gatto
• Elisabeth Griffiths
• Dr Frances Hamilton
• Professor Ann Mumford
• Daphne Romney QC
• Professor Lucy Vickers
• Tracey Walsh (partner Womble Bond Dickinson) and
• Wanda Wyporska (executive director of the Equality Trust)

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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.

Find out more about this event here.