Thursday 12 July 2012
UCL Centre for Criminal Law and Old Bailey Chambers
Criminal Defences: Diminished Responsibility & Provocation
Speaker: Professor Ian Dennis (Director, UCL Centre for Criminal Law)
Chair: The Hon Mr Justice Fulford (Presiding Judge South-Eastern Circuit, and Judge at the International Criminal Court)
Accredited with 2 CPD hour by the SRA and BSB
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About this lecture:
Professor Dennis reviewed recent legislative and case law development in the law of criminal defences. There will be ample opportunities for questions and discussions. |
Wednesday 16 November 2011
UCL Centre for Criminal Law
An Update on Hearsay and Anonymous Evidence
Speakers include:
Professor Ian Dennis (Director, UCL Centre for Criminal Law)
David Perry QC (6 King's Bench Walk)
Accredited with 1.5 CPD hour by the SRA and BSB
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About this lecture:
This seminar will examine recent developments in the law relating to hearsay and anonymous evidence in criminal proceedings. It is hoped that by this date we shall have the long-awaited judgement of the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Al-Khawaja and Tahery v United Kingdom. There will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. |
Wednesday 2 November 2011
UCL Centre for Criminal Law
Current Issues in the Prosecution and Trial of Serious Fraud
Speakers include:
The Rt Hon Sir John Thomas (President, Queen's Bench Division)
Richard Alderman (Director, Serious Fraud Office)
Stephen Parkinson (Partner, Kingsley Napley)
Chair: Professor Ian Dennis (Director, UCL Centre for Criminal Law )
Accredited with 1.5 CPD hour by the SRA and BSB
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About this lecture:
This seminar will discuss some current issues in the prosecution and trial of cases of serious fraud. The speakers will examine these issues from the perspectives of the judiciary, prosecution agencies and defence lawyers. There will be ample opportunity for questions and discussion. |
Monday 1 November 2010
UCL Centre for Crimninal Law
Legal Advice in Police Stations
Professor Pascoe Pleasence (UCL)
Dr Layla Skinns (University of Sheffield)
Professor Michael Zander (LSE)
Accredited with 1.5 CPD hours
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About this lecture:
This event will explore legal advice in the police station, 25 years after the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 created a statutory right of access to legal advice for suspects in police stations for the first time. Professor Pleasence and Dr Skinns will be presenting the results of their latest research with new and important quantitative and qualitative data. Professor Zander will comment on the results from his position of unique authority on PACE. |
Thursday 2 & Friday 3 September 2010
UCL Centre for Criminal Law
Two-day Conference
Seeking Security: Pre-empting the Commission of Criminal Harms
Speakers include:
- Lawrence Alexander (San Diego)
- Ian Dennis (UCL)
- Anthony Duff (Stirling)
- Jeremy Horder (Law Commission)
- Peter Ramsay (LSE)
- Jonathan Rogers (UCL)
- Stephen Shute (Sussex)
- Andrew Simester (Singapore)
- John Stanton-Ife (KCL)
- Robert Sullivan (UCL)
- Malcolm Thorburn (Queen's University, Kingston)
- Shlomit Wallerstein (Oxford University)
- Clive Walker (Leeds)
- Martin Wasik (Keele)
- Lucia Zedner (Oxford)
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About this conference:
The papers presented at this conference will analyse the issues of principle and policy that are raised by the increasing use of state resources to prevent the commission of criminal acts that may be committed at some future and uncertain point in time. Critical examinations will be made of the extensive use of covert surveillance, of coercive interventions under the criminal and civil law at points well in advance of any realised harm, and the use of imprisonment not as punishment for harms done but to prevent harms that might be done.The aim of the conference is to inform criminal law/ justice policy makers and scholars of the nature and extent of these preventative measures. The objective will to increase the capacity of these communities to make informed assessments of the efficacy of these measures and their ethical and policy implications. This objective will be assisted by the undertaking of a leading legal publisher to publish a monograph based on the conference papers.
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Tuesday 11 May 2010
Centre for Criminal Law
Are Juries Fair?
Speaker: Professor Cheryl Thomas, UCL Faculty of Laws
Commentators:
Prof. Michael Zander, LSE
David Perry QC, 6 King's Bench Walk
Accredited with 1.5 CPD hours
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About this seminar
The Ministry of Justice has recently published a major report by Professor Cheryl Thomas, "Are Juries Fair?". The report sets out the findings of a large-scale research project designed to explore the fairness of jury decision-making. Professor Thomas's findings do much to clarify contested claims about jury behaviour and dispel a number of popular myths about the willingness of juries to convict in certain courts and in certain types of crime. The findings also provide valuable data about the current workings of the criminal justice system. At the same time the report highlights some issues for concern, where further research would be desirable. The publication of the report made headline news and it is destined to set the agenda for future discussion of the process and outcomes of jury trial. This seminar offers an unrivalled opportunity to hear Professor Thomas present her report and discuss its findings with the assistance of expert commentary from Professor Michael Zander, member of the former Royal Commissions on Criminal Procedure and Criminal Justice, and David Perry QC, a leading criminal silk who has appeared in many major jury trials. |
The formal launch of the Centre took place on Tuesday 27 October from 6.00 - 9.00 pm at UCL. The Provost and President of UCL, Professor Malcolm Grant CBE, opened the proceedings.
Professor Andrew Ashworth CBE QC DCL FBA, Vinerian Professor of English Law in the Universitry of Oxford, delivered the keynote address on the subject of Risk, and risk management, in the criminal law.
This was followed by a panel discussion, chaired by Professor Bob Sullivan, Professor of Criminal Law at UCL. The panellists are:
- The Rt Hon Sir Richard Buxton, former Lord Justice of Appeal,
- Professor Jeremy Horder (Law Commission) and
- Professor Nicola Lacey, Professor of Criminal Law, LSE.
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