The National Critical Lawyers Group

Conference

Roughly every year the NCLG holds a conference where various aspects of the judicial system are discussed and debated.  The National Critical Lawyers Conference is recognised as one of the most radical student, academic and practitioner law conferences and the attendance, both by speakers and students, is traditionally very high.

	CONFERENCE 2001 - JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY?
	CONFERENCE 1999 - HUMAN RIGHTS - HUMAN WRONGS

NCLG Annual Conference - Canterbury - 16/17/18 November 2001

Unfortunately, the 2001 conference has been postponed until next year. However, we are leaving the details on the website so that anyone interested in speaking at or attending the conference in 2002 will have some idea of the kind of subject matter we address. If you would like to speak at the conference, organise a subject 'stream' or simply register interest in attending, please contact us at the usual addresses.

JUSTICE IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

	Confirmed Plenary Speakers
	Speakers & subjects
	Sponsors
	Contact & Suggestions

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Michael Mansfield QC (Honourary President of NCLG)
Courtenay Griffiths QC (Practitioner Chair of NCLG)
John Hendy QC
Helena Kennedy QC
John Wadham
Owen Davies
Professor Roger Smith
Professor Peter Muchlinski
Professor Sol Picciotto
Mike Semple Piggot
Frank Furedi
Anne Furedi
Tony Girling (TBC)
Michael Topolski (TBC)
Sally Sheldon
Nick Dearden
Joanne Scott

Speakers and subjects

The following streams are being organised, the full titles of some may need to be revised through time. And they are in no particular order!

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Sponsors

We are grateful to this year's sponsors:

• Semple Piggot Rochas www.spr-consilio.com
• 2 Garden Court

We urgently need more sponsors so that we can keep our registration fee for students at our usual £5. Any businesses, organisations or individuals who would like to become involved in sponsoring the event, please contact us either by writing to us or via email.

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Contact & Suggestions

We actively encourage you to get involved - offer to speak, suggest a stream or simply offer to help generally. Any CLG members or interested parties who wish to present papers or otherwise participate in the conference should contact the NCLG to express their interest. We are also interested in any suggestions for streams or themes for discussion, or the suggestion of speakers.   Further details of the conference will be available shortly and will be posted on this site, but for a general idea of what goes on at the most radical student law conference, please look at the report from the 1999 conference below..  To register an interest please write to the CLG at the contact address or e-mail us, marking the title of your message Conference 2001.

We have booked the County Hotel Ballroom in the centre of old Canterbury for The NCLG Millennium ' Not the Blair Babes ' Party on Saturday night Also lots of rooms booked-make it a partner and/or family weekend

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NCLG Annual Conference - Manchester - 6th -7th March 1999

'HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN WRONGS'

• THEMES FOR THE CONFERENCE
• SPEAKERS
• ORGANISATIONS
• PROGRAMME

Themes for the Conference

     Human Rights Act 1998
     Critical Legal Theory
     International - Pinochet
     Criminal Justice
     Critical Legal Education
     Palestine
     Law Clinics
     Iraq
     UN Declaration of Human Rights
     'Modernising Justice'
     Third World Debt
     Race and Law
     IT and the Web
     Global Economic Crisis -  Who pays?
     Animal Rights
     Tuition Fees / Grants - Access to Education
     Cuba
     Medical Law
     Judicial Appointments Procedures
     European      - EMU
     International Criminal Court
     'Fortress Europe'
     Environmental Law
     Corporate Governance
     Gender and Law
     Labour and Law
     Asylum/Immigration
 

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    Speakers

    Kate Atkinson (Campaign Against Tuition Fees)
     Harjindar Bahra (Environmental Law Centre)
     Hazel Biggs (Feminist Law Review)
     Geoffrey Bindman (Bindmans)
     Anne Bottomley (author : Feminist Perspectives on Law)
     Bill Bowring (Essex)
     Kathryn Caldwell (Essex)
     Indira Carr (ed: Inf and Commun Tech Law)
     Deborah Cheney (contributor: Prisons Handbook)
     Owen Davis QC
     Kate Doolin (UKC)
     Maria Drakopoulou (UKC)
     John Dunckley (Earth Rights)
     Maggie Dwyer (TUC)
     Alistair Edie (Barrister)
     Robert Fine (author: Democracy and the Rule of Law)
     Edward Fitzgerald QC
     John Fitzpatrick (Director of Kent Law Clinic)
     Prof Peter Fitzpatrick (author: Dangerous Supplements)
     Adam Gearey (Birkbeck)
     Suresh Grover (The Monitoring Group)
     John Hendy QC
     Grahame Horgan (UKC)
     Prof Bill Howarth (ed: Water Law)
     Paddy Ireland (ed Critical Lawyers Handbook)
     Robert Jago (contributor: Prisons Handbook)
     David Kelly (author: English Legal System)
     Per Laleng (ed of Critical Lawyers' Handbook Vol II)
     Robin Mackenzie (UKC)
     Ian McDonald QC
     Sarah Maguire (Barrister)
     Wade Mansell (co-author The Wrongs of Tort)
     Rory Mates (Barrister)
     Prof. Peter Muchlinski (author: Multinational Enterprises and the Law)
     Terry Munyard (Inquest)
     Donald Nicolson (Bristol Law Clinic)
     Paul Oliver (Bindmans)
     Prof. Abdul Paliwala (Warwick)
     Prof. Sol Picciotto (ed. Regulating International Business)
     David Ransom (New Internationalists)
     Trevor Rawnsley (City College)
     David Robertson (author: Judicial Discretion in The House of Lords)
     Bernard Ryan (UKC)
     Prof Geoffrey Samuel (author: Methodological Individualism)
     Joanne Segar (TUC)
     Sally Sheldon (author: Beyond Control: Medical Power & Abortion)
     Marty Slaughter (UKC)
     Roger Smith (Director of Education Law Society)
     Simon Strelitz (UKC)
     Lorraine Talbot (Guildhall)
     Michael Topolski (Chair of Amicus)
     Steve Uglow (co-author: Human Rights Act)
     Hilary Wainright (Red Pepper)
     Robin Webb (ALF)
     Cat Weiner (FRFI)
     Dave Wilkinson
     John Wadham (Liberty)
     David Yaffe (RCG)
 

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   Campaign Groups & Organisations

     Animals Betrayed Coalition
     Amnesty International
     Animal Liberation Front
     Campaign Against Birmingham Toll Road
     Campaign for Freedom of Information
     C.P.A.G.
     Comm. For Racial Equality
     Cuba Solidarity Campaign
     Equal Opportunity Comm
     Earth Watch
     Fair Shares
     Friends of the Earth
     Greenpeace
     Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
     Institute of Employment Rights
     International Centre for T.U. Rights
     Joint Council for Welfare of Immigrants
     Joseph Rowntree Foundation
     Law Centres Federation
     Legal Action Group
     Outrage
     Oxfam
     People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
     Rank Outsiders
     Shelter
     Society of Black Lawyers
     Society of Spanish Prosecutors
     State Watch
     Trade Union Research Unit
     T.U.C.
     Viva