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Public Law & Judicial Review North 2011
Thursday 14th July 2011, BPP Law School, Manchester
The day includes sessions on challenging public sector cuts, use of international law in domestic courts, The Equality Act 2010 and trends and forecasts in public law. Workshops looking in detail at funding public law challenges, The Court of Protection, Community Care Law, Asylum Support and the Local Government Ombudsman, Proportionality, evidence and disclosure in judicial review. Click here for full programme and booking form.
Devolution and Evolution: Judicial Review in Wales. Clive Lewis QC
A relevant, up to date and and very clear plenary paper from our 2011 Welsh Conference.
'Mediation and Judicial Review: A Practical Handbook for Lawyers'
An online only publication from our research department.
This handbook is intended to address the gaps in legal practitioners’ understanding of how mediation can be used as an alternative to, or alongside, judicial review and to provide practical assistance to those practitioners who are, or who may be, considering mediation as a route for resolving public law disputes, particularly judicial review claims.
Just click the link here for the free download (may take some time as the whole publication is a 2 megabite .pdf file)
Public Law Project, Wales conference 2011
Duties, Devolution and Access to Justice
Wednesday 4th May 2011, Cardiff University Glamorgan Building
Full programme and booking form here
Speakers include: Hon. Mr Justice Beatson, Clive Lewis QC, Ruth Henke QC, Emyr Lewis (Morgan Cole), Gwion Lewis, David Wolfe, Lisa Morgan (winner of the Law Society Junior Lawyer of the Year 2010 Excellence Award), Adam Hundt (Pierce Glynn) and Jo Hickman (the Public Law Project).... and many others.
The day includes a presentation and panel discussion on the equalities duties and The Equality Act 2010, with contributions from lawyers, academics and leaders from the Welsh voluntary sector.
Judicial Review - Trends and Forecasts - London 2010
Monday 18th October, Herbert Smith
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Speakers inlcude: Rt. Hon Lord Justice Jackson, Lord Justice Sedley, Mike Fordham QC, Helen Mountfield QC, Rhodri Thompson QC, Martin Westgate QC, Kate Markus, Richard Buxton, Mark Scott, Richard Drabble QC, Adam Chapman, Ben Jaffey, Andrew Lidbetter, John Halford... Click here for full programme and booking form
The conference provides a 'Who's Who' and a 'What's what' of public law and judicial review. For the 2010 programme we have introduced an 'access to justice' theme to reflect concerns at this particularly difficult time for claimant based legal sector.
Judicial Review North - 24th June 2010 - Manchester
Click here for full programme and booking form. We have more on offer than ever before, with sessions on Housing Law, Welfare Benefits, the Equalities Duties, costs and funding, freedom of information and the impact of international human rights law. Contributors include Phil Shiner, Ian McDonald QC, Timothy Pitt-Payne QC, Louise Whitfield and Ravi-Low Beer. Contributing organisations include the LSC and legal Aid Practitioners Group plus members of Garden Court North Chambers, Kings Chambers, Doughty Street Chambers and Garden Court Chambers.
PLP has produced a briefing paper on the current Ministry of Justice / Legal Services Commission consultation: Legal Aid: Refocussing on Priority Cases. Download it here
Judicial Review - Trends and Forecasts - London 2009
Thursday 8th October, Herbert Smith. This year's contributors include Sir Anthony May, Lord Justice Sedley, Michael Fordham QC, Richard Gordon QC, Ben Jaffey, Nathalie Lieven QC, Nigel Giffin QC, Kate Markus, Martin Westgate, David Wolfe, Richard Stein....and many, many more. For full programme and booking form, click here.
PLP's Research Department publishes two important new studies - June 09
PLP has published two major empirical research studies on judicial review, both funded by the Nuffield Foundation.
The first, 'The dynamics of Judicial Review Litigation: The resolution of public law challenges before final hearing', was conducted jointly with Professor Maurice Sunkin of the University of Essex.
The second report, 'Mediation and Judicial Review' is the first study of its kind, seeking to establish an independent evidence base for identifying the value and limits of mediation as an alternative to, or used alongside, judicial review.
The reports were presented at a seminar comprising lawyers judges, academics and mediators to at the Nuffield Foundation on 1 June, with PLP's patron, Sir Henry Brooke, chairing the event.
Both reports can be downloaded as PDF documents here. Printed copies can be requested by sending an e-mail to p.powell@publiclawproject.org.uk
New Advisers Training day announced - London 24th April 09
PLP are partnering with Local Governemnt Ombudsman and Housing Ombudsman Service to provide a unique insiders guide on how to get first stage complaints, and ombudsman complaints, handled properly. For more details, click here
PLP Solicitor Ravi-Low Beer was invited to deliver an address to the NCVO Annual Conference, on 'the future of the third sector'.
You can read the full text of this challenging address here
Winston Roddick CB QC gave the closing address to our Judicial Review - Wales 2009 conference on 21 January
You can read the Pdf of his Trends and Forecasts speech here
PLP Launches Judicial Review WALES conference 2009 - 21st January at Cardiff Law School.
Bilingual Pdf booking form and time table here
New in-house training course: Using complaints procedures & the ombudsman schemes to resolve social welfare problems
For more details, click here.
Updated 'Third Party Interventions - A Practical Guide' now available
To download the guide for free, please click here.
Empowering the Voluntary Sector
Newsletter 6 (August 2008) available to download from menu on the right. Read more about the EVS project by clicking here.
PLP welcomes Ben Jaffey of Blackstone Chambers to the Management Committee
For details of Ben Jaffey's background and areas of expertise, click here.
High Court victory for BME women's group challenging Ealing Council under the Race Relations Act
For more details, click here to read the press release.
Update on position re Administrative Court Delays - July 2008
For more details, click here to read more.
Court of Appeal clarifies basis on which public interest litigation may be brought
For more details, click here to read press release, and here to read the Court of Appeal judgment.
London Judicial Review - Trends & Forecasts conference
Full details of PLP's annual London Judicial Review - Trends & Forecasts conference have now been announced. For more details of the speakers, and how to book, click here.
New 'Public Law Strategic Support' project
PLP has been awarded a grant by the CLS for an innovative project to assist advisers in resolving systemic local problems, prioritising those that are impacting on the largest number of people.
For each issue taken on we will offer tailored in-house training, provide materials such as standard letters for advisers to use, and provide a back-up telephone consultancy service to assist in individual cases.
For more details click here.
Administrative Court announces action to combat delays following PLP intervention
For more details click here.
The Public Law Project wins sole LSC contract for Public Law.
For more details click here.
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