Join us at our AGM on Wednesday 9 December 2015 at 6.30pm at London Metropolitan University, Gouldstone Street, London, E1 7TP. Nearest tubes Aldgate and Aldgate East.
Immediately before our AGM, our Vice President John Hendy QC will be speaking on "Why We Need to Stop the Trade Union Bill".
Attendees at the conference Women Fighting Back: International and Legal Perspectives can leave their feedback here.
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Read MoreBarristers can now obtain BSB approved CPD hours for the conference. You will need to have already bought your ticket to the conference at the relevant price for your income.
Our socialist and feminist commitment to supporting low-income members of the legal profession means that if you are on a low income and are unable to afford the full cost of CPD hours then we will be happy to agree a lower rate. Please contact secretary@haldane.org to discuss this.
UPDATE: Ticket purchases have now closed.
Attendees of the International Women's Conference 28-29 November 2015 will need to select their choices for the workshop sessions. Nine or 10 workshops will run in each of the three sessions. Attendees must make their selections on the form below by Friday 27 November 2015 at 17:00. Please also provide us with any languages required for interpretation, and any other information we will need to be aware of on the day.
UPDATE: Registration has now closed and anyone not having signed up will need to sign up on Saturday or Sunday morning.
Read MoreThe Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights will be hosting the "Women Fighting Back: International and Legal Perspectives" conference at London South Bank University (100-116 London Road, London, SE1 6LN) on 28-29 November 2015.
The aim of the conference is to bring a critical, left wing and intersectional perspective to the women's movement and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and practical skills between lawyers, academics and activists to advance women’s campaigns and struggles.
The main themes of the conference will be:
We are delighted to announce the participation of:
09:00-10:00 Registration/Coffee
10:00-10:15 Welcome Note:
10:15-11:45 Panel Discussion: Migrant and Refugee Women
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-13:00 Workshop
13:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:15 Keynote Session
14:15-15:45 Panel Discussion: Violence against Women
15:45-16:00 Campaign for the ratification of the Istanbul Convention Action on violence against women and domestic violence (ELDH)
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15-16:30 Open Floor
16:30-18:00 Panel Discussion: Women in conflict and peace
Evening: Cabaret at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 145 Fleet Street with Scary Little Girls
09:00-10:00 Registration/Coffee
10:00-11:30 Panel Discussion: The State and Women's Bodies
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Workshop
12:45-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Angela Davis (USA)
Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California. Founding member of critical resistance.
14:00-15:00 Workshop
15:00-15:15 Break
15:55-16:45 Panel Discussion: Women in work
16:45-17:10 Open Floor
17:10-17:30 Closing Note Jeanne Mirer (USA)
President of IADL, founding board member of the International Commission for Labour Rights.
[1] N.B. This is a draft programme and may be changed.
There are different pricing levels for students, those on a low income, and those on high incomes. Requests for complete exemption from paying for those on benefits can be made to feminism@haldane.org.
Early bird tickets have all been sold, and tickets are now being sold at their full price. Ticket sales will cease at 17:00 on 27 November 2015. After this time if you want to try to reserve a ticket then please contact membership@haldane.org.
When you purchase your ticket you will not receive a paper or electronic ticket: if you have received an acknowledgment email from PayPal then your name is on the guestlist which will be on the door.
Top-up tickets with CPD accreditation for barristers are available here.
The deadline for booking childcare has passed. However, if this will cause you a problem then please let secretary@haldane.org know.
Please let secretary@haldane.org know if you do not speak English, French or Spanish.
Download the travel advice in English or in French (Spanish available shortly).
If you would like to contribute financially to the conference you can donate online through PayPal (see below). There is a small commission taken by PayPal. If you would like to donate without any commission being taken then please contact feminism@haldane.org for details of how to make a bank transfer.
UPDATE: Ticket purchases have now closed.
Join us at the Rose Lipman Building, 43 De Beauvoir Road, N1 5SQ at 7.30pm on Friday 18 September 2015 for a fundraiser for the International Women's Conference.
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers has campaigned for years for direct action by the profession to defend access to justice. Direct action is currently ongoing amongst criminal law solicitors and barristers.
It is essential that we learn the impact of the action. Alongside grassroots campaigns and other professional bodies, the Criminal Bar Association is playing a role in organising the action. They have set up a monitoring system to establish the impact that action is having so far. This is set out below.
No Returns
If you returned a case due to a diary clash, we would invite you to try and follow it up, where possible, to see what became of it. Please send the information using the following form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CBANORETURNS2015
If you have accepted a return on the 27th July or beyond, equally we would invite you to fill out the form so the action can be monitored properly . The information collected will be used simply to monitor the action and not to single people out who have chosen not to participate by accepting returns.
No legal aid order
If you are in the Crown Court and witness a defendant appearing who is not in receipt of legal aid, through the solicitors action, we would invite you to fill out the following form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MonitoringOrders
Equally, if you are instructed in a post 1 July matter which does have a legal aid order in place, please use the same form. Again, this information is not being collected to stigmatise those who are accepting new work, but rathe to monitor just how many representation orders are being applied for.
We were pleased to recently receive this message of support from the Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn MP.
"I offer my full support to the ongoing boycott of legal aid cases by solicitors and barristers in protest at cuts to legal aid services.
The legal profession has been driven to this by the intransigence of the government. I am very worried that legal aid could totally disappear under this Government. If this happens we will have a justice system that will only be accessible to those who can afford it.
The total savings made by cutting legal aid don't even add up to very much but are already doing so much damage to our justice system. Every legal professional in this country should stand together and get behind the boycott so that the Government are forced to rethink these illogical cuts."
Jeremy Corbyn MP
We are delighted to announce that tickets are now on sale for our conference on 28-29 November 2015.
The tickets on sale are at a special early bird rate, until 1 November 2015.
Tickets with CPD accreditation will be available soon, at £80 for the weekend or £60 for a day.
For block bookings for groups of 10 or more please contact us by email at feminism@haldane.org to arrange a discount. Equally, for those unable to pay at the lowest rate, please contact us by email at feminism@haldane.org to arrange a reduction or remission of ticket price on a case-by-case basis.
Please also email us at feminism@haldane.org if you have any childcare requirements, access issues, or special dietary requirements (except vegetarianism, which will be catered for).
Update: Early bird ticket sales are now closed.
