Date / time
Date(s) - 08/11/2024
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location
Simmons and Simmons
Categories
Join us this November for JUSTICE’s annual conference – bringing together the UK’s leading legal voices to discuss the most pressing developments, challenges and opportunities shaping the rule of law.
As the Rule of Law faces an unprecedented threat in the UK, there has never been a more crucial time for the UK’s leading legal voices to come together to network, learn and collaborate. Join us – either virtually or in person – for a day of interactive sessions exploring the future of judicial review, violence against girls and women, immigration, AI and much more.
Both virtual and in-person attendance is available – book your early bird tickets today.
THE DAY’S AGENDA:
9.30 – 11:30am
Morning Plenaries
The Attorney General
The Right Honourable Richard Hermer KC
The Future of the Rule of Law
The Right Honourable Lady Simler
Fireside Chat
Discussing the Post Office Scandal
Patrick Green KC & Jo Hamilton
11:45am – 1:15pm
Morning Breakout Sessions:
- Judicial Review
- Manjit Gill KC (No5 Chambers)
- Katherine Apps KC (39 Essex Chambers)
- Polly Glynn (DPG Law)
- Violence Against Women and Girls – Protective Orders Working in Practice
- DI David Thomason (Cheshire Constabulary)
- Mandip Ghai (Rights of Women)
- Emma Lingley-Clark (Suzy Lamplugh Trust)
- UK Corruption and the Rule of Law
- Lord Anderson of Ipswich
- Professor Robert Barrington (University of Sussex)
- Emily Agnoli (Simmons & Simmons)
- Dr Susan Hawley (Spotlight on Corruption)
1:15pm Lunch
2:15 – 3:30pm
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
- AI and the Rule of Law
- Dr Jeni Tennison OBE (Connected by Data)
- Professor Karen Yeung (University of Birmingham)
- Michael Stych (Contend)
- Immigration – Where Next for UK Asylum Law?
- Zoe Bantleman (ILPA Immigration)
- Greg Ó Ceallaigh KC (Garden Court Chambers)
- Muhunthan Paramesvaran
- Inquiries – Lessons Learnt
- Emma Ireton
- Brian Stanton
- Alison (Police Spies Out of Lives)
3:35pm
Plenary Debate
What is the Future of the Rule of Law in the UK?
- Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) (2 Bedford Row)
- Lord Marks KC (4 Pump Court)
- Alyson Kilpatrick (Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission)
- Ellie Cumbo (former adviser to Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood)
- Session moderated by Dr I. Stephanie Boyce
GET YOUR TICKETS TODAY:
In-person tickets to the JUSTICE Annual Conference are now sold out, however virtual attendance is still available. See below to find the ticket that best suits you.
New membership & event booking
Click here to download the Booking Form.
If you are unable to join us in London, all of this year’s conference will also be accessible virtually. Virtual tickets include streamed access to the opening keynote session, review of the year, fireside chat, and closing debate, as well as your choice of a morning and afternoon breakout session. Please note that virtual and in-person tickets cannot be exchanged.
To arrange a group booking and for all other ticket enquiries, please email events@justice.org.uk.
Discounted in-person tickets are available for NGOs – contact events@justice.org.uk for more information.
Our speakers provide their time free of charge to speak at our Conference to allow us to raise funds for JUSTICE. This year, we will not be requiring speakers to provide Papers or PowerPoints. If speakers do provide these, they will be shared with attendees.
BOOKING TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- Payment must be made before the conference, unless specific arrangements have been made to the contrary.
- Delegates who register under the reduced fee must provide proof of eligibility for that fee when requested, or be liable to pay the full standard fee. Once submitted, this booking form constitutes a firm booking which can only be cancelled in accordance with our cancellation policy set out below.
- Breakout session spaces are limited and we therefore cannot guarantee you will be allocated your first choice. If a breakout session is oversubscribed we will contact you to discuss alternative options.
- Once we receive your booking form we will send you a booking acknowledgement. If you have not received this acknowledgement prior to the date of the conference, please contact us.
CANCELLATION POLICY
- Bookings may only be cancelled by written notice (by email to events@justice.org.uk) received by us not less than 10 working days before the date of the conference. You will then be sent a refund of your delegate fee, minus an administration fee of £25 for each delegate booking cancelled. Telephone cancellations will not be accepted. Refunds of delegate fees for late cancellations (i.e. other than in accordance with the above paragraph) will not be given.
- We reserve the right to change the programme, date, content, price, and speakers as necessary.