Past Lectures
Below is a list of past lectures and lectureres:
- 2009 His Honour Judge Eady "Do we now have a law of privacy?"
- 2008 His Honour Judge Coleridge “Wither family life; whither family law”
- 2007 Sir Ken McDonald QC “Reforming the CPS – a stocktake”
- 2005 Goodhart
- 2004 Professor Sir Ray Goode QC “The return of personal property security and the slow death of the floating charge”
- 2003 Shami Chakrabati (Director of Liberty) “The state of our liberty; human rights and civil liberties in the UK”
- 2002 Professor Sir Ian Kennedy (Reith Lecturer and Chair of Bristol Babies Enquiry) “Getting rid of clinical negligence”
- 2001 Lord Hoffmann “Democracy and the judges”
- 2000 Mr Keir Starmer (Barrister) “Human Rights Act 1998 – a field day for crackpots, a pain in the neck for judges and legislators and a goldmine for lawyers?”
- 1999 Lady Justice Hale “The future of family law”
- 1998 Lord Steyn (Lord of Appeal) "Constitutional perspectives”
- 1997 Lord Woolf “Civil justice changing the culture”
- 1995 Mr Anthony Witaker “Free speech: a war of words”
- 1994 Mr Michael Mansfield QC “Presumed guilty”
- 1993 Mrs Barbara Mills QC (Director of Public Prosecutions) “Rising to the challenge”
- 1992 Christopher Dickson “Financial fraud – how the Serious Fraud Office tackles the problem”
- 1991 His Honour Judge Stephen Tumin (Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons) “The state of the prisons in 1991”
- 1990 Mr Justice Waite “The challenge of child care in the 1990s”
- 1989 Sir Derek Bradbeer (Past President of The Law Society) “More reform for the lawyers – why?”
- 1988 Guy Dehn (Legal Officer National Consumer Council) and Norman Rose (Deputy Director and Head of Legal Division CBI) “Does the law seek to overprotect the consumer?”
- 1986 John Alderson (Former Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall) “Violence and the state’s response”
- 1985 Des Wilson (Chairman of the Campaign for Freedom of Information) “The case for freedom of information”
- 1984 Sir David Napley and Marie Staunton (NCCL) “A debate on civil disobedience and the role of the law”
- 1983 Mr Justice Ralph Gibson (Chairman of The Law Commission) “Has law a future?”