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Assize Seminar: Cutting Edge Criminal Law
12 November 2021, 3:00 pm–6:00 pm
organised by Mark Dsouza (UCL) | Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair) | Paul Jarvis (CBA) | Rachel Clement Tolley (Cambridge)
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About the Assize Seminars
The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic, rotating between three leading academic institutions: Oxford, Cambridge and University College London, and occasionally, making a special stop elsewhere in England & Wales. Each Assize Seminar runs with the support of the Criminal Bar Association.
The next Assize Seminar event will be hosted by UCL and held virtually over Zoom on 12 November 2021.
The programme
3:00pm Welcome by Dr Mark Dsouza
3:05pm Session 1
DISCUSSION SESSION WITH FAHIMA SIRAT, FORMER JUDGE OF THE AFGHAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COURT
Q&A
3:50pm Break
4:00pm Session 2
BEYOND DOUBT: THE CASE AGAINST ‘NOT PROVEN'
by James Chalmers, Fiona Leverick and Vanessa E Munro
- James Chalmers, Regius Professor of Law University of Glasgow
- Fiona Leverick Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice University of Glasgow
Comments by Dr Lee J Curley, The Open University
and Katie Wheatley, Partner and Head of the Crime, Fraud and Regulatory Team at Bindmans LLP
4:50pm Break
5:00pm Session 3
“SAFETY: A GOOD ENOUGH TEST FOR APPEALS AGAINST CONVICTION BASED ON GUILTY PLEAS – AND GENERALLY?"
Francis Fitzgibbon, QC at 23ES in London & Trinity Chambers, Newcastle
Comments by Prof. N Padfield, Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice, University of Cambridge; Director, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice
And Lord Justice Andrew Edis, Lord Justice of Appeal
5:50pm End of seminar
Downloads and recordings from this event
BEYOND DOUBT: THE CASE AGAINST ‘NOT PROVEN'
by James Chalmers, Fiona Leverick and Vanessa E Munro
“SAFETY: A GOOD ENOUGH TEST FOR APPEALS AGAINST CONVICTION BASED ON GUILTY PLEAS – AND GENERALLY?"
Francis Fitzgibbon, QC 23ES in London & Trinity Chambers