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Northumbria LawSchool, in partnership with national pro bono work charity LawWorks, recently launch a ground-breaking initiative (1st December 2011...
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Northumbria LawSchool, in partnership with national pro bono work charity LawWorks, recently launch a ground-breaking initiative (1st December 2011).
The LawWorks North East Pro Bono Hub will build a regional network of law firms to facilitate and celebrate the provision of free legal advice and representation to members of the public and community groups in the North East.
The legal profession has a long history of providing valuable pro bono as part of its responsibility to society. Pro bono work can take various forms including free legal advice sessions and assisting charities and community associations as well as the provision of free representation at courts and tribunals.
Northumbria University School of Law, with support from LawWorks, will liaise with the local legal profession to facilitate the provision of pro bono services in the North East and will develop local pro bono projects to target local needs.
The LawWorks Hub will run as a pilot until January 2013 and will be open to the whole of the North East community including individuals, charities and community groups who may require assistance from members of the Hub including many North East law firms.
This video includes a panel discussion incorporating Roger Wiltshere, chief counsel of BAE Systems and trustee of LawWorks, Hugh Welch, senior partner of Muckle LLP and Paul McKeown of Northumbria University School of Law who discussed how they engage in pro bono work.
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What shall we do without legal aid?
Mental health and human rights lawyer Lucy Scott-Moncrieff is the managing partner of Scott-Moncrieff and Assoc...
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What shall we do without legal aid?
Mental health and human rights lawyer Lucy Scott-Moncrieff is the managing partner of Scott-Moncrieff and Associates LLP, a virtual law firm with a national reach acting for legally aided and privately paying clients. The firm specialises in representing detained patients, life sentence prisoners and vulnerable children and young people.
Lucy was elected to the Law Society Council in the summer of 2002, and before that maintained a long connection with the Law Society through her membership of the Mental Health and Disability Committee which she joined in 1986. After joining Council Lucy became a member of the Society's Regulatory Affairs Board, Access to Justice Committee and Education and Training committee.
Lucy sits as a Mental Health Tribunal judge and provides training for those applying for membership of the Law Society's Mental Health Panel. In 2005 she won the Mental Health Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year award. She is acknowledged as a leader in her field in the Chambers Directory and the Legal 500 and many of her cases, including those before the ECtHR have been reported over the years. One of her clients was the first person to obtain a declaration of incompatibility under the Human Rights Act. The resulting remedial order altered the discharge criteria affecting all those detained under the Mental Health Act.
Lucy was a founder member of the QC Appointments Panel, was a Commissioner with Postcomm from 2008 to 2011, and is an associate with Verita, which carries out investigations on behalf of public bodies. She is also director of two management and training companies.
In 2011 she won the Association of Women Solicitors' award for best manager of a legal aid practice.
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Is the bar too high? : Manslaughter by gross negligence
Robert Smith QC was called to the Bar in 1971 and took silk in 1986. He is a Master of the...
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Is the bar too high? : Manslaughter by gross negligence
Robert Smith QC was called to the Bar in 1971 and took silk in 1986. He is a Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, a former member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and until his retirement from office he served for many years as a Recorder and a Deputy Judge of the Queen's Bench Division and Chancery Division of the High Court. He is a member of the Editorial Advisor Board for 'Blackstone's Criminal Practice'. He continues in active practice and is the Head of a busy and successful set of Chambers in Leeds.
As an advocate, Robert is well known in the Courts. He is particularly renowned for his abilities in witness handling and also for his monograph, 'the principles of Cross Examination in Criminal Cases'. Robert appears regularly in the Appellate courts and has been involved with many cases that have led to major changes in or clarification of the law, specimen directions and guideline sentencing practice.
Robert is a common law practitioner and has a practice that spans both criminal and civil law, but has particular specialism in medico-legal matters. He lives in North Yorkshire where he has a wide range of interests outside the law and is a visiting professor at Northumbria University.
Robert's talk relates to homicide and medical negligence. Is the bar too high? : Manslaughter by Gross Negligence examined when medical practitioners should and shouldn't be held accountable and prosecuted for those who die whilst under medical care. In his lecture, Robert also dealt with a controversial topic - the double effect rule in mercy killings.
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Edward Garnier QC MP was appointed Solicitor General by Prime Minister David Cameron on 13 May 2010.
Born in Germany, the son of a British Army Col...
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Edward Garnier QC MP was appointed Solicitor General by Prime Minister David Cameron on 13 May 2010.
Born in Germany, the son of a British Army Colonel, Edward read history at Oxford before transferring to law and qualifying as a barrister. Called to the bar in 1974 and specialising in defamation, he took silk in 1995. He was appointed a Crown Court Recorder in 1988 and a Bencher of the Middle Temple in 2001.
Edward has been a Member of Parliament for Harborough since 1992. He has had a long interest with justice whilst serving as an MP: he was the PPS to Sir Nicholas Lyell QC, whilst he was Attorney General; was frontbench spokesman on the Lord Chancellor's Department under William Hague; and has been Shadow Minister for Justice and Shadow Attorney General. In 2009, Edward was elected as chair if the newly formed all party Parliamentary Group on Privacy.
Edward is married with two sons and a daughter.
The Solicitor General's Eldon Lecture focused on the importance of pro bono activities in legal services and the benefits that this may bring.
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