Weekly Round Up 25.05.12
CBA News:
Chairman’s Update:
Our Annual Dinner last Friday was I believe a success. Middle Temple Hall was full, and we were joined by a wide group of guests. All were entertained by my distinguished and much-loved predecessor, David Calvert-Smith. The evening was also the culmination of an effort to publicise the issues challenging the modern criminal Bar. You can read my full Dinner Address HERE, and some of the press coverage HERE.
Middle Temple Hall was again full on Sunday evening, for the annual Kalisher fundraising event. Some of our finest actors gave their time, in combination with Kalisher Trustees and supporters, to raise funds allowing us to strengthen our support for able newcomers to the Bar who otherwise could not afford their education and training. Congratulations to Kalisher Chairman Andy Hall QC and all around him who created an excellent event. Maura McGowan QC, next year’s Bar Council Chair, delivered a fine speech at the ‘Enforcing regulatory standards in a liberalised market’ debate last week; read it HERE.
The CBA Committee met on Tuesday evening to discuss our strategy ‘after the Dinner’. Ask your Committee member or Circuit Reps for more.
It is not too late to register for our Conference at IET in Savoy Place on Saturday: you can even sign up at the door from 8.30-9am tomorrow. The programme is excellent as always, thanks to our Education Committee. I hope to see you there.
Enjoy the weekend and, I hope, the weather.
Max
Health Support and Advice for the Bar – Law Care:
LawCare provides an independent and confidential service which assists members of the Law Societies of England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland and the Isle of Man; the Institute of Legal Executives; the Bar Councils of England and Wales, the Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland; the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland; the Department of Justice; the Institute of Barristers Clerks; and the National Association of Paralegals. This is a confidential advisory service to help lawyers, their immediate families and their support staff to deal with the health issues and related emotional difficulties that can result from a stressful career as a lawyer, or working with lawyers. LawCare is there to support and assist you, too.
LawCare offers you the opportunity to discuss problems that are interfering with, or have the potential to interfere with, your work performance and / or your family life and to seek to help in resolving these problems.
Through LawCare, help is available to those who are suffering from stress and /or depression, or who have alcohol, drug or other dependency concerns, or eating disorders.
There is a helpline which is open 365 days a year:-
9am – 7.30pm, Monday to Friday
10am – 4pm Saturday, Sunday and UK Bank Holidays
0800 018 4299
Further details can be found on the website here
Chairmans Report – May 2012
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Recent Consultation Responses
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Special offer from Oxford University Press – Save 20% on select Criminal Law Titles
More information and a list of titles can be found here
CBA Events:
CBA Conference
Conviction and Beyond
Saturday 26th May 2012
All day Saturday event (venue to be confirmed) which will include speakers from the Judiciary, Academia and Court of Appeal.
The event will focus on post-conviction matters including (a) recent developments in sentencing (b) confiscation (c) ancillary orders, including Sexual Offences Prevention Orders (d) Sentencing Guidelines (e) A practical guide to the process for Attorney General references and (f) sentencing issues in the Magistrate’s Court
Further details will be circulated and posted to the website next week.
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2012 Kalisher Scholarship Trust Event
The 2012 Kalisher Scholarship Trust event will be a staged reading of two Agatha Christie plays, ‘Butter in a Lordly Dish’ and ‘Personal Call’. Those hoping to participate include Martin Shaw, Felicity Kendal, Maxine Peake, Ray Fearon, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Mark Farrelly, and will be performed thanks to the generosity of Agatha Christie’s estate and Bill Kenwright Ltd. Set in the world of the 1950s, the plays will be fully miked and promise an evening of laughter, legal intrigue and murder mystery.
The event will be held in Middle Temple Hall, at 6.30pm on Sunday 20th May. Tickets cost £50, and are available now from Middle Temple (0207 427 4800).
All proceeds from the event go toward scholarships for talented students who, without the support provided by the Trust, would be unable to reach the Criminal Bar.
For more information about the Kalisher Scholarship Trust, please go to www.thekalishertrust.org
Half a Century of Crime: A Valedictory Summing Up
A lecture by the Right Honourable Lord Justice Hooper
Inner Temple Hall
Monday 18 June 2012 – 6.30pm
Followed by a Drinks a Reception
The CBA have been allocated 50 places in total to attend the lecture.
If you wish to take this very kind offer up, please be sure that you are able to make the lecture and then book with me, I will then pass the details to the Inn.
Further information can be found here
Other News:
Criminal Law Week – updates (issue 20)
Key updates from this week’s issue of Criminal Law Week:
Appeal
Whether there is a right of appeal from the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) to the Supreme Court in contempt of court cases: R. v. O.B., C.A. (CLW/12/20/1).
Hearsay
Court of Appeal considers the admissibility of the statement of a deceased witness, in the light of Horncastle and Al-Khawaja: R. v. Ibrahim(CLW/12/20/2).
Accessorial liability
Whether the effect of Bryce is that an accessory to murder must have foreseen a real as opposed to a serious risk that the principal would commit the offence: R. (Equality and Human Rights Commission) v. Prime Ministor and ors; R. (Al Bazzouni) v. Same, D.C. (CLW/12/20/5).
Extradition
Supreme Court rules on whether there is a discretion to extend the strict time limits for appeals against extradition under the Extradition Act 2003 in exceptional circumstances: Pomiechowski v. District Court of Legunica, Poland; Lukaszewski v. District Court in Torun, Poland; Rozanski v. Regional Court 3 Penal Department, Poland; R. (Halligen) v. Secretary of State for the Home Department (CLW/12/20/29).
Subordinate legislation
bringing into force in certain areas amendments by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 to provisions in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 relating to allocation and sending for trial, and making amendments to related subordinate legislation, including the Criminal Defence Service (Funding) Order2007: S.I. 2012 Nos 1320, 1343, 1344 & 1345, (CLW/12/20/31, 33, 34 & 37).
International News & Events
For the latest update and further information from Advocates for International Development click here
Other Events:
The Koestler Trust’s 50th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner – celebrating arts by offenders helping ensure our next 50 years
Guest of honour : Antony Gormley
Venue The Waldorf
7pm Thursday 28th June 2012
Black Tie
Being held at the Waldorf as its where Arthur Koestler, David Astor and Hugh Casson devised the Koestler Trust
It’s the very first event of its kind for us and we’re hoping to make it a biennial event for the years to come.
The response from our supporters has be fantastic but we still have a few places left to sell and it would be simply wonderful if we could sell out for the event.
We shall be having an auction which will include a Gormley, a Grayson Perry, a Maggi Hambling and a Mary Feddon as well as the chefs Table at Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant at Claridges and a master class for two with the world renowned chef Jean Christophe Novelli .
All in all a great night guaranteed but we’re grateful for all the support you can muster for us
South Eastern Circuit Bar Mess Foundation Advanced International Advocacy Course
(Bank holiday) Monday 27 August until Saturday 1 September
Keble College, Oxford
The aim of the South Eastern Circuit Bar Mess Foundation Advanced International Advocacy Course at Keble College, Oxford course, is to encourage and develop the highest standards of advocacy amongst practitioners. The course is the most demanding and intensive of any advocacy course in the UK, and was described by a former presiding judge of the Circuit as the “Best Advanced Course in the UK”
The application form is now available to download:
The Inns of Court are each offering funding for up to five of their members towards the cost of attending the Keble Advanced Advocacy Course. The deadline for applications for the scholarships has been extended to 25 May 2012 and for further details, please click here.
South Eastern Circuit Florida Criminal Law Advocacy course
The South Eastern Circuit seeks a Silk with a criminal practice to attend the South Eastern Circuit Florida Criminal Law Advocacy course, held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, from Sunday 5 August to Friday 10 August 2012. The successful applicant is expected to take part in advocacy exercises, to provide feedback to participants and, he or she will demonstrate qualities marking him or her out as an appropriate ambassador of our profession. The course fees, accommodation and flights are funded by the Florida Bar Association. Successful candidates will be expected to travel to Gainesville in time to attend the course on 5 August 2012 and if you would like further details, please click here.
An Evening of Sacred Music
Temple Church
Wednesday 30th May 2012
7pm
Tickets £25
You can buy tickets by emailing [email protected] or through Temple Church box office: www.templemusic.org
The Slynn Foundation
The Slynn Foundation are delighted that The Rt Hon The Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers KG, who will retire as President of the UK Supreme Court in September, has agreed to deliver the 10th Slynn Foundation Lecture on Monday 12 November 2012. More details will follow but please note the date.
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