Lecture on How to be a Feminist Lawyer

Listen to the audio of our lecture on How to be a Feminist Lawyer.  Speakers are Elizabeth Woodcraft and Alison Diduck.

Upcoming Lecture 2013-14

Tuesday 10th December 2013:

How to be a Feminist Lawyer

Speakers: Elizabeth Woodcraft, family law barrister and Professor Alison Diduck, Professor of Law at University College London

Wednesday 15th January 2014:

Government’s attack on squatters

Speakers: David Watkinson, barrister and specialist in squatters’ rights and representative from Squatters Action for Secure Rights (SQUASH)

Download the A4 poster (PDF).

Michael Mansfield Lecture 13/11/2013

Haldane Society Lecture 13/11/2013

Questions following Haldane Society Lecture 13/11/2013

Free Lectures for November and December

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[The embedded file in this article announces the upcoming lectures:

14 November 2013 speaker Phil Shiner, on UK Human Rights Violations in Iraq and Afghanistan (followed by AGM);

10 December 2013 speakers Elizabeth Woodcraft and Alison Diduck, on How to be a Feminist Lawyer.

All lectures 6.30pm, University of Law.]

Lecture Series Update

14 November 2013

Annual General Meeting and Lecture:
Phil Shiner, solicitor, Public Interest Lawyers, doughty litigator against human rights abuses by British troops, will be speaking on “UK human rights violations in Iraq and Afghanistan – the present picture”.

10 December 2013

How to be a Feminist Lawyer.
Speakers TBC.

All lectures at 6.30pm, University of Law, 14 Store Street, London WC1E 7DE http://www.law.ac.uk/our-centres/london-bloomsbury/getting-there/.

Attendance is free.  We hope that CPD points will be available (for £10), but please check in advance.

Human Rights Lectures 2013-14 Announced

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[The image in this article sets out the dates of Haldane's upcoming lecture series.  Lectures are to be held on 8 October (police surveillance), 14 November (Michael Mansfield and Haldane AGM) and 10 December (details TBC).  All at University of Law, Store Street, 6.30pm.  All lectures are free or £10 for CPD.]

Haldane Society Human Rights Lectures 2013 - 2014

Tuesday 8 October 2013:

Undercover Police Surveillance: A Call For A Public Inquiry

Speakers: Imran Khan, solicitor to Doreen Lawrence, and Lois Austin,

former Chair of Youth Against Racism in Europe (spied on by the police)

Thursday 14 November 2013:

Haldane Society Annual General Meeting

Speaker to be announced.

Tuesday 10 December 2013:

Topic to be Announced

All lectures at 6.30pm - 8.00pm, held at the University of Law, 14 Store Street, London WC1E 7DE.

http://www.law.ac.uk/our-centres/london-bloomsbury/getting-there/.

Free admission. CPD points available (charge £10).

Free Public Lecture: Frances Webber's Borderline Justice

Frances Webber and Harmit Athwal on "Borderline Justice: the fight for refugee and migrant rights".

"Borderline Justice" is written by Frances Webber and published by Pluto Press, with a foreword by Gareth Peirce. Barriser Frances Webber provides a unique insight into how the law has been applied to migrants, refugees and other "unpopular minorities". The book records some of the key legal struggles of the past thirty years which have sought to preserve values of universality in human rights - and the importance of continuing to fight for those values, inside and outside the courtroom.

Harmit Athwal will speak on the deaths of asylum seekers (in detention, in the community and during removal) and what can be done to highlight such deaths.

Frances Webber has been a legal practitioner in the field of migrants' rights for over 30 years. She is an honorary Vice-President of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, Vice-Chair of the Institute of Race Relations and a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Harmit Athwalll has worked for the Institute of Race Relationsfor 15 years, edits and manages IRR News, the IRR’s online news service and carries out research into deaths in custody, during deportation and related to racial violence in the UK. Recent reports include Driven to desperate measures, Racial violence: the buried issue and Asylum deaths: what to do next. In her outreach role, she has variously worked with groups such as United Families and Friends Campaign, Medical Justice and Corporate Watch.

Helen Bamber OBE: "Frances Webber writes with the authority of a legal expert who for thirty years has represneted migrants and asylum seekers. The book raises quesions for all concenrred with the preservation of a truly democratic and humane society".

Liz Fekete, Executive Director Institute for Race Relations: "On every page of this book the cold, inhuman and racially-determined logic of Home Office decision-making is laid bare by a campaigning lawyer passioante in the belief that the fight to preserve refugee and migrant rights in the UK is central to the larger fight for racial justice internationally".

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 6.30pm - 8.30pm, admission free, Garden Court Chambers 57 - 60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ. No need to reserve in advance. Copies of Borderline Justice will be on sale.

Download the poster for the event.