The National Critical Lawyers Group

Saturday 7th February 2004

9.00  onwards

Registration, Keynes Foyer

Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer

Opening Plenary: 11.00am to 12.45pm

KLT1

Welcome: John Wightman, Head of Department, Kent Law School , and David Melville, Vice Chancellor, University of Kent

Helena Kennedy QC: Justice in the 21 st Century?

Prof. Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck): Justice in the Age of the American Empire

Imran Khan: Race, Asylum and Immigration

Prof. Joanne Conaghan ( Kent ): Justice for Women

Prof Roger Smith (Director, Justice): Justice in the 21 st Century?

12.45 - 1.45pm Lunch

(available in Eliot College Dining Hall, Rutherford College Dining Hall, or in Origins, Darwin College )

Session 1: 1.45pm - 3.15pm

1 Workshop discussion with plenary speakers:

KLT1

Prof. Peter Fitzpatrick

Imran Khan

Prof. Joanne Conaghan

Helena Kennedy QC

Prof Roger Smith

2 Environmental Justice

KLT4

Chair: Michelle Wheeler

Phil Michaels (Lawyer, Friends of the Earth): '"Ghost Ships" and Environmental Injustice'

Dr David Wolfe (Barrister, Matrix Chambers): 'Environmental Justice: A View from the Bar'

Paul Stookes (Chief Executive, Environmental Law Foundation): 'Environmental justice: civil law aspects'

Discussant: Donald McGillivray ( Kent )

3 Law and Reproductive Medicine

KLT5

Chair: Dr Ellie Lee (Kent)

Steve Wilkinson (Keele):

Emily Jackson (LSE):

John Gillott (Genetic Interest Group):

Discussants: Peter Mills (Human Fertility and Embryology Authority) and Dr Hazel Biggs ( Kent ).

4 Workers Justice and Globalisation: Panel 1

KLT3

Chair: Hussein Ansari

Prof. Steve Anderman (Essex):

Sammy Adelman ( Warwick ):

5 Policing Hate Crime

Venue: KSR8

Chair: Simon Bailey

Prof. Les Moran (Birkbeck): 'Homophobic Violence'

Henrietta Hill (Barrister, Doughty Street ): 'Race and Policing'

6 Critical Criminology

Venue: KSR4

Chair: Dr Keith Hayward ( Kent )

Prof. Paddy Hillyard ( Ulster ): 'Beyond Crime and Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously'

Wayne Morrison (Queen Mary): 'Genocide: criminology's fatal omission'

7 Criminal Justice: Panel 1

Venue: KSR17

Chair: Katie Gotterson

Lynn Hancock ( Open University ): 'Jurors' Confidence in the Criminal Trial'

Prof. Steve Uglow ( Kent ): 'The Criminal Trial and the CJA 2003'

8 Asylum, Immigration and Justice: Panel 1

Venue: Keynes Quiet Senior Common Room

Chair: Felipe Alviar

Dr Bernard Ryan ( Kent ): 'EU immigration and asylum law in Britain '

Frances Webber ( Institute of Race Relations): 'Access to Justice'

Roland Bioshah

9 Justice and Homelessness

Venue: KSR8

Chair: Mathieu Fréville

James Bowen (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): 'Law, Policy and Homelessness'

Linda Pierce (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk), t.b.c.

10 Prisoners, Justice and the Law

Venue: KLT2

Chair: Simon Bailey

Tres-Anne Cooke (Hibiscus), 'Black Foreign National Women in British Prisons'

Dr Azrini Wahidin ( Kent ): 'Lost Offenders in Forgotten Places: Elders in Prison'

Lisa Young and Nezlin Newell (Women in Prison): 'Young Women in Prison'

Sharon Shalev, 'Supermax Prisons in the USA '

3.15 - 3.35 Tea and Coffee available in Keynes foyer

Session 2: 3.35pm - 5.00pm

1 Optional Plenary: War and the Undermining of International Law

Venue: KLT1

Chair: Keith Webb

George Joffe (Centre of International Studies, Cambridge ): 'Reluctant Imperialism: Human Rights, Regime Change and Pre-emptive Intervention'

Wade Mansell ( Kent ): 'Bush/Blair and the Undermining of International Law'

John Strawson ( University of East London ): 'International Law as Ideology'

Dr Yutaka Arai ( Kent ): 'Conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq ' (tbc)

2 Optional Plenary: Iraq - the National Consequences: Civil Liberties and the impact of the Hutton Report

Venue: KLT5

Chair: Lisa Sigalet

Geoffrey Bindman (Bindmans, Solicitors): 'The Hutton Committee Report'

Charles Garraway (Visiting Prof., King's College London): 'Justice in Iraq '

Louise Christian (Christian Khan, Solicitors): 'Representing the Guantanamo Prisoners'

Daniel Moeckli ( Nottingham ): 'Terror and the War on Civil Liberties'

Discussant: Manjit Gill QC (6 Kings Bench Walk)

3 Should the Human Fertility and Embryology Act be Reformed? 'Saviour siblings' and abortion for foetal abnormality

Venue: KLT4

Chair: Dr Ellie Lee ( Kent )

Ann Furedi (British Pregnancy Advisory Service)

Barbara Hewson (Barrister, Hardwicke Civil):

Sally Sheldon (Keele):

Discussants: Juliet Tizzard (Progress Educational Trust), Prof. Marie Fox (Manchester/Keele)

4 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Panel 2

Venue: KLT2

Chair: Mathieu Fréville

Michael Topolski QC ( Tooks Court ): 'Justice and the Death Penalty'

Dr Claire Valier (Birkbeck): 'Justice and the changing normative bases of punishment'

Michael Osofsky (Stanford and Queens, Belfast ): 'The Death Penalty in Action'

5 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Panel 3

Venue: KLT3

Chair: Katie Engel

Ed Rees QC ( Doughty Street ): 'Justice and the use of civil procedures in criminal cases'

Dr Anna Carline (Liverpool John Moores): 'Women who kill'

Jay Hart ( Kent ): 'The Sexual Offences Act'

6 Patents, Drugs and Death in the 21 st Century

Venue: Keynes Quiet Senior Common Room

Chair: Simon Bailey

Alan Story ( Kent ): 'The case for abolishing patents on anti-HIV/AIDS drugs'

Dr Paul Street ( Nottingham ): 'Pharmaceutical Products or Essential Drugs: The WTO and the Two-Thirds World'

Adam Mannan ( Kent ): 'Patents and innovation in the 21st Century?'

7 Asylum, Immigration and Justice, Panel 2: s55 Asylum Support Cases

Venue: KSR6

Chair: tbc

Adrian Berry (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): 'The Ramifications of s.55'

Pete Wilkinson (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): 'Pre-litigation and s.55'

Lance Charlton (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): 'Article 3 ECHR and Immigration'

Tony Fuller (Migrant Helpline)

8 The Compensation Culture - Negligence in a Litigious Age

Venue: KSR16

Chair: Luke Manzarpour

A debate between:

Jon Holbrook (Barrister, 2 Garden Court (Barrister, Hardwicke Building and Spiked-Online)

and

Niamh O'Brady (Senior Partner, Pattinson and Brewer, Solicitors)

9 Justice and the European Community

Venue: KSR4

Chair: Felipe Alviar

Dr Anneli Albi ( Kent ): 'Enlargement and the EU's Constitutional Debate'

Dr Harm Schepel ( Kent ): ''Beyond Power/Knowledge: Law, Science and the Social
Construction of Expertise in Transnational Contexts'

Joanne Scott ( Cambridge ): 'Assessing Risk in the WTO and the European Community: Law Science and Globalising Markets'

10 Workers Justice and Globalisation: Panel 2

Venue: KSR17

Chair: Hussein Ansari

Daniel Blackburn (International Centre for Trade Union Rights): 'Globalisation and Labour Rights'

Dr Claire Kilpatrick ( Cambridge ): 'Justice, Workers and Globalisation'

Nick Toms (Barrister, Doughty Street ): 'Labour relations and globalisation'

5.00-5.30pm Tea and Coffee Available in Keynes Foyer

Second Plenary: 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Venue: KLT1

Chair: Keith Webb

Tony Bunyan (Statewatch): 'The War on Civil Liberties'

David Ransom (The New Internationalist): ' In justice and Globalisation'

Prof. Peter Muchlinski ( Kent ): 'Law, Justice and Globalisation'

Prof. Bill Bowring ( London Metropolitan University ): 'International Human Rights in the 21 st Century'

Krishnadas Sukumaran (Visiting Fellow, Keele): 'Legal Activism in India '

7.30 Dinner Available on Campus in Rutherford College Dining Hall or in 'Origins', Darwin College , or at restaurants in Canterbury

8.30 The Film ' After Jenin' will be shown in Eliot Lecture 2

8.00 til late 'Not the Blair Babes Party' in Mungos in Eliot College , with music by Bethan Freize and Satellite Sounds

Sunday 8th February 2004

8.00 onwards: Breakfast available in Eliot Dining Hall.

9.00 onwards: Registration, Keynes Foyer (for those just attending on Sunday)

Session 1: 10 am - 11.25 am

1 Optional Plenary: Regulating Biotech

Venue: KLT3

Chair: Michelle Wheeler

Tony Gilland (Science and Society Director, Institute of Ideas ):

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2 Justice in the Age of the New Imperialism

Venue: KLT1

Chair: Luke Manzapour

Dr Adam Gearey and others (Birkbeck)

Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyers): 'International Law and the Occupied Territories'

Discussant: Professor Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck)

3 Justice for Africa in the 21st Century? Panel 1

Venue: KLT5

Chair: Hussein Ansari

Eki Omorogbe ( Kent ): 'Armed Conflicts: African Solutions for African Problems?'

Michael Schmitt (Kissinger Watch and Kent) and Emmanuel Mounier ( Kent ): 'The Poor Countries Odious Debts and International Law'

Wayne Morrison (Queen Mary): ' Africa and the forgetful vision of western power: the case of The Congo'

4 University Law Clinics: What Are They For?

Venue: KLT2

Chair: Jenny Ellis

John Fitzpatrick (Director, Kent Law Clinic):

Mike Potts ( Chair , Kent Law Clinic):

Jeremy Taylor ( University of Northumbria )

5 Ethnic Minorities and the Law

Venue: KLT4

Chair: Sharen Lau

Dr Prakash Shah (Queen Mary): 'Criminal (in)justice in a plural society: South Asians and the English law on homicide'

Ihsan Yilmaz: (SOAS): 'Turks in London and the Construction of hybrid Turkish-Muslim Law'

Sonya Fernandez ( Kent ): 'English Law's Conception of Cultural Identity'

6 Equality and the Law: Panel 1

Venue: KSR4

Chair: Donna Marsh

Dr Matthew Weait (Open University): 'Church, State and Sexuality in Britain today'

Leo Raznovich ( University College , Oxford ): 'Gay and Lesbian marriage: the implication of the marriage act in Holland and the international private law principles'

11.25 - 11.45 Tea and Coffee Available in Keynes Foyer

Session 2: 11.45 - 1.10pm

1 Optional Plenary: Legal Education for the 21st Century

Venue: KLT1

Chair: Jenny Ellis

Professor Fiona Cownie ( Hull ): 'Exploring a Discipline: the Culture of Law and the Professional Identities of Academic Lawyers'

Professor Tony Bradney ( Leicester ): 'Ethics and Legal Education'

Richard De Friend (Director, College of Law ): 'Is Legal Education too important to leave to law teachers?'

Prof. Roger Burridge (Warwick; UK Centre for Legal Education): 'Teaching against tyranny'

2 Mental Health and Justice

Venue: KLT3

Chair: Peter Jones

Phil Fennell ( Cardiff ): 'Stigmatising Illness: Mental Health, Human Rights and Law Reform'

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3 Criminal Justice: Panel 3

Venue: KLT2

Chair: Kerrie-Lee Bearman

Helen Curtis (Barrister, 2 Garden Court ): 'Justice: the implications of the Eurowarrant'

Kieron Vaughan (Barrister, 2 Garden Court ): 'Justice: the implications of the Eurowarrant'

4 Equality and the Law: Panel 2

Venue: KLT5

Chair: Hussein Ansari

Marguerite Russell (Barrister, 2 Garden Court ): 'Why is the UK so backward?'

Dr Rosemary Auchmuty ( Westminster ): 'Same Sex Marriage'

5 Justice for Africa in the 21st Century? Panel 2

Venue: KLT4

Chair: Talitha Purcell-Gilpan

Ubong Effeh ( Kent ): 'Sub-Saharan Africa : A Casualty of Global Injustice?'

Gbenga Oduntan ( Canterbury Christ Church University College ): ' Mind The Gap: Africa and the Generational Problems of International Litigation in the International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of Arbitration'

Rob Hume ( Anglia Polytechnic University ): 'Land Titling and Peri-urban poverty in Botswana and Zambia '

6 The Future of Legal Services

Venue: KSR6

Chair: Katherine Stone

Alison Graham (Legal Action Group): 'The Way Forward?'

Law Centres Federation Speaker: ' Legal aid: does it work for social progress?'

1.10 - 2.00pm Lunch (available in Eliot Dining Hall or Origins, Darwin College )

FINAL PLENARY: 2.00pm - 3.30pm

Venue: KLT1

Chair: Ian Grigg-Spall ( Kent )

Mike Mansfield QC ( Tooks Court , and Honorary President, NCLG)

Prof Bob Fine ( Warwick )

Diane Langford (Palestine Solidarity Campaign): 'The wall in the heart of Palestine - fighting oppression'

Prof Abdul Paliwala ( Warwick ): 'The Global Digital Divide'

Paddy Ireland ( Kent ): 'Where is capitalism taking us?'

Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyers)

Courtenay Griffiths QC (NCLG Practitioner Chair): 'Towards a National Critical Organisation?'

Post conference: drinks in Keynes Bar.