LATEST NEWS & EVENTS

A new CCRC Stakeholder Forum and Lecture Series starting 2018

• The second lecture, “Joint Enterprise Appeals – have the Courts of England & Wales lost sight of justice?” will be given by Felicity Gerry QC on Thursday, 12 July 2018 at UCL, following the second meeting of the Stakeholder Forum that same afternoon at UCL.


• A third lecture and forum are expected to take plane at UCL in November 2018.

Place: The Cube, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, St Cross Building, Manor Road Oxford OX1 3UL

Changing Contours of Criminal Justice  is an edited collection of essays designed to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Oxford Centre for Criminology by exploring the changing contours of criminal justice over the past half century. The contributors to this volume were invited to reflect on the impact Oxford criminology has had on the discipline, providing a unique and critical discussion about the current state of criminal justice around the world and the origins and future implications of contemporary practice. All are internationally-renowned criminologists whose work has defined and often re-defined our understanding of criminal justice policy and literature.

More details here.

• Examine the way in which female offenders are treated by the sentencing system.


• Consider whether there is a true, principled, case for reform.


• Debate whether or not women ought to be treated differently to men and, if so, how that should be approached.

Overview

Since 2014 Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre has brought some of Australia’s finest writers and thinkers to Bendigo to talk about what ‘justice’ means in our contemporary world – and we’re pleased to announce that Talking Justice is returning to Bendigo in May for Law Week 2016! Watch the #TalkingJustice2016 video here

This year’s line-up of speakers and performers builds on this annual event’s strong foundation of passion, expertise, diversity and respect. And our 2016 program continues to reflect our desire to present alternative visions and to canvas issues from the local to the international. The program encompasses global dislocation, crime and punishment, gender equality and diversity, the creative journey, racism and local and global inequality.

Our moderator for Talking Justice 2016 is Martin Krygier. Martin is the Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory, and Co-Director of the Network for Interdisciplinary Studies of Law at the University of NSW.

Details: 

• 77% of the top 100 global companies use Twitter


• 64% of consumers make purchase decision based on social media content


• Social media accounts for 28% of the time people spend online


• 40% of people don’t tweet themselves, but watch other people tweet on Twitter

For a useful explanation read our blogs here and look out for further information on Article 7 issues, coming soon.

To read more about the 20th Conference of Clubs of SISWP at Waterview in Bicentennial Park, Sydney, click here 

Register here.

To read more about #FGM in Australia click here 

Details to follow.

In the meantime, read the latest news on the case from @UKSupremeCourt website here.

For details click here.

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• The intersection between human trafficking and drug trafficking laws (4 hours).


• Global sexual offending – looking at serial sexual offenders and online child abuse – includes issues of uniformity of law and extra territoriality and touches on empowerment of women through legal policy. Also consideration of issues of sentencing (4 hours).


• Global responses in relation to women’s health, including criminal laws on FGM & abortion (4 hours).

She will give presentations on the following topics:

1. Human trafficking (saving Mary Jane)

2. Achieving gender equality by tackling exploitation through law.

3. Women’s health & the law – FGM & Abortion

To hear more details click here

Visit the De La Salle University website here

This event is aimed at high school students from years 10 -12. However, we are delighted to invite Charles Darwin University Law students to attend the following sessions of the conference, which are scheduled to take place from 10:30am to 12:30pm on Saturday, 2nd of May 2015 at the Litchfield Room, Doubletree by Hilton, 122 The Esplanade, Darwin NT.

‘Taking a focus on Australia and Indonesia, this presentation will consider exploitation of people, international cooperation and how criminal and corporate lawyers can help to end a global slavery epidemic by identifying victims and diverting them out of justice systems and by ensuring corporate responsibility.’

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To read Felicity’s expertise on FGM law click here.

Their cases raise legal issues over the intersection between drug trafficking & human exploitation.

The Gendered Violence Research Network (GVRN) inaugural Asia-Pacific conference on Domestic Violence in East Timor,’Timor-Leste: Access to Justice, Just Outcomes and the future for Domestic Violence survivors’ is taking place at UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales) in Sydney.

• Investigating psycho-social, therapeutic and prevention interventions for gendered violence and violations


• Engaging with policy and legal responses to gendered violence and violations


• Exploring conceptualisations and representations of gendered violence and violations

Full information here and here. 

CPDP is a non-profit platform originally founded in 2007 by research groups from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Université de Namur and Tilburg University. The platform was joined in the following years by the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and the Fraunhofer Institut für System und Innovationsforschung and has now grown into a platform carried by 20 academic centers of excellence from the EU, the US and beyond. As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection. Within an atmosphere of independence and mutual respect, CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, computer scientists and civil society from all over the world in Brussels offering them an arena to exchange ideas and discuss the latest emerging issues and trends. This unique multidisciplinary formula has served to make CPDP one of the leading data protection and privacy conferences in Europe and around the world.

The CPDP Conference is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection. The 8th edition of CPDP will be held on 21-23 January 2015 in Brussels.

CPDP 2015 will stage more than 60 panels and workshops with a stimulating mix of academics, practitioners, regulators and advocates, as well as multiple side events such as open debates, PechaKucha performances and artistic interventions.

PROPOSITION

Felicity Gerry QC – International human rights barrister specialising in trials concerning rape, murder, and female genital mutilation (FGM). An outspoken me- dia commentator, Gerry writes for The Guardian, The Times and The Independent and lectures on crime and cyber-crime at Charles Darwin University.

Sarah Green – Campaign Manager of End Violence against Women, a coalition of pressure groups which lobbies the British Government. The coalition counts Amnesty International and Women’s Aid among its members.

OPPOSITION

Nicola O’Connor – Criminal Defence solicitor, recognised in both the Legal 500 and the Thomson Reuters Super Lawyer List 2013. Famously represented Peter Bacon, who was acquitted of rape in 2009.

Paul Tweed – Paul Tweed is recognised as one of the world’s highest profile Libel and Media Lawyers – www.libelexpert.co.uk. He has operated in the international marketplace for more than thirty years, achieving record damages for clients in Ireland, Los Angeles and the UK. He has represented national newspapers, publishers and numerous international personalities in the music, film, sport and entertainment worlds including: Britney Spears; Louis Walsh; Harrison Ford; Nicolas Cage; Jennifer Lopez and Liam Neeson.

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Women in prison: is the penal system fit for purpose?

• Explore the impact of imprisonment on female offenders and the wider community


• Examine the current penal system and whether it is fit for purpose


• Discuss alternatives to prison based on the needs of the individual