Events
The Education and Training Committee seeks to provide a programme of continuing education and training to the Criminal Bar by way of a series of online evening lectures and symposiums, together with our in-person Saturday Conferences for Spring and Winter. The Committee is committed to a programme that offers practitioners with the means of earning free or inexpensive CPD hours.
CBA Lecture: Can we really rely on electronic evidence?
1 CPD Hours
Thursday 20 March 2025
Actual examples (such as the Post Office Horizon scandal and NHS cases) will be used to illustrate these issues.
CBA Lecture: Habeas Corpus
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 26 March 2025
This lecture will focus on the topic of habeas corpus after a series of recent examples of prisons failing to release defendants despite court orders to do so.
Youth Practitioners' Association conference: Youth Justice SOS 2025
CPD Hours
Tuesday 01 April 2025
At Hodge Jones and Allen’s offices
Tuesday 1st April at 6pm
CBA Lecture: When Bad Character Bites
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 02 April 2025
Being able to identify when evidence meets the statutory definition of bad character (ss.98, 112 Criminal Justice Act 2003)
The Spring Conference 2025
6 CPD Hours
Saturday 03 May 2025
The Programme will be announced in due course but bookings are open.
Bar Conference 2025
Friday 06 June 2025
Register your interest to be the first to hear when tickets are released.