Assize Seminar November 2021

UCL - Faculty of Laws (12 November 2021)

Speakers

1. Discussion session with Fahima Sirat (Former Judge of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Court)

    

2. James Chalmers (Regius Professor of Law - University of Glasgow), Fiona Leverick (Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice - University of Glasgow) and Vanessa E Munro (Professor of Law - University of Warwick)
   Title: Beyond Doubt: the case against 'not proven' (see the handout)
   Commentators: Dr Lee J Curley (The Open University) and Katie Wheatley (Partner and Head of the Crime, Fraud and Regulatory Team at Bindmans LLP)

    

3. Francis Fitzgibbon (QC at 23ES in London & Trinity Chambers, Newcastle)
   Title: Safety: a good enough test for appeals against conviction based on guilty pleas - and generally? (see the handout)
   Commentators: Prof. N Padfield (Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice, University of Cambridge; Director, Cambridge Centre for Criminal Justice) and Lord Justice Andrew Edis (Lord Justice of Appeal)

The recordings from this seminar are available here.