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The Temple Church 1185 – 2008:
History, Architecture and Effigies
An Exhibition in the Temple Church: 7 April – 15 June
For
opening hours, www.templechurch.com. Admission free; donations
welcome.
Robin
Griffith-Jones, FSA, “the Reverend and Valiant Master
of the Temple” and curator of the Exhibition, gives
a talk on the Church each Monday until 9 June, 1.00pm. Admission
to the talk: £4 (£2).
700
years ago the Order of the Temple was in turmoil, its members
under arrest, and its Grand Master soon to be burned at
the stake. Its main church in England, at the New Temple
in London, survived the suppression of the Order in 1312,
and escaped (by a whisker) the Great Fire of London in 1666,
only to be ravaged by fire during the Blitz. Nevertheless,
it remains one of the most important surviving medieval
monuments in London, with superb late Romanesque sculpture,
luminous early Gothic architecture, a magnificent series
of medieval monuments, and major post-Reformation furnishings
by Sir Christopher Wren and others. It is set in the Temple,
an oasis of gardens, courtyards and calm between Fleet Street
and the River. The Temple Church is among the most historic
and lovely of London’s churches; and this spring an
exhibition has been mounted in the Round itself to illustrate
its changing appearance over eight centuries.
The
V & A has lent plaster-casts, taken in time for the
Great Exhibition, of four of the Church’s effigies;
they lie on plinths, majestic and entire, next to the stone
originals that were damaged in 1941. The Bowes Museum has
lent the only two columns known to survive from the Wrenian
organ-screen of 1682, dismantled in the 1840s. And photographs
from Inner and Middle Temple, the Antiquaries, Ashmolean,
Guildhall Library and Museum of London, trace the Church,
its history and the – dramatic – changes made
over time to its decoration.
The Exhibition is part of the Temple 2008 Festival, celebrating
the Quatercentenary of the Letters Patent that granted the
whole Temple to the lawyers’ societies of Inner and
Middle Temple.
New guidance
published on out-of-court disposals for adults
A
new guide to out-of court-disposals has been produced,
bringing together information on all the alternatives
to prosecution for adults, including Notices for Disorder
(PNDs), conditional and simple cautions.
The
guide has been created in response to a number of requests
from police officers and prosecutors, for a simple, easy
to use guide. Representatives from the police, the Crown
Prosecution Service and the judiciary helped to develop
the guide, which has been endorsed by the National Criminal
Justice Board. Separate guidance is being developed on
dealing with young offenders.
Out-of-court
disposals aim to deal with low-risk and mostly first time
offenders outside of the court system, in appropriate
circumstances and give them the chance to get help and/or
to make reparation without the stigma of a court appearance
and a criminal conviction.
The
guide is available in an A4 booklet, A5 summary booklet
– both of which are attached here - and an A1 poster
for use in custody suites and charging centres. Copies
have already been sent to practitioners on the front line,
and to key stakeholders.
If
you would like to obtain hard copies of these materials,
please email your request to homeoffice@prolog.uk.com
clearly indicating “Out-of-court Disposals”
in the subject line or alternatively telephone 0870 241
4680 to place your order OR
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE GUIDE ONLINE
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INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
the global voice of the legal profession
IBA and College of Law Launch New LLM
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The International Bar Association (IBA) in partnership with The College of Law of England and Wales (CoL) launched a new type of Master of Laws (LLM) in International Professional Legal Practice. Uniquely, it enables the learners to develop and practise their skills in advising and implementing international transactions, as opposed to making academic studies of legal cases, and thus gives them a real advantage in the increasingly international legal environment. The course material has been shaped by leading practising international lawyers from some of the world’s major law firms and will provide lawyers with the skills to conduct cases across jurisdictional boundaries.
The LLM in International Professional Legal Practice will be taught in English and based on English law and practice with an international perspective. Being a distance learning postgraduate law degree, it will allow individuals to study in any location at their own pace.
Speaking from the IBA’s Annual Conference in Singapore, Fernando Pombo, IBA President, says, ‘I believe that this new IBA-College of Law LLM will be of enormous benefit to young lawyers, and to those law firms that encourage their lawyers to invest in obtaining a qualification which, for example, will enable a practitioner to deal skilfully with all the legalities involved, from beginning to completion, in the flotation of a company in diverse jurisdictions. I am delighted that the IBA is the first bar association to bring this type of qualification to newly-qualified and more experienced lawyers alike who want to develop their international practice skills. Teaming with The College of Law to develop this LLM in International Professional Legal Practice means that the IBA can further positively impact the development of the worldwide legal profession.’
Nigel Savage, CoL Chief Executive Officer, also in Singapore for the launch of the IBA-CoL LLM commented, ‘I am delighted that the IBA, in conjunction with The College of Law of England & Wales, is at the forefront of delivering the first truly global legal qualification. The LLM will give junior lawyers the skills and knowledge to meet the demands of international legal practice.’
The first student intake is January 2008 and the LLM programme will comprise the following modules consisting of international and contemporary subjects:
- International Intellectual Property Practice;
- Business and Finance and The Legal Services Market;
- International Mergers and Acquisitions Practice;
- International Commercial Practice;
- International Public Companies Practice;
- International Capital Markets and Loans Practice;
- International Anti-trusts Practice; and
- International Arbitration Practice.
Full information and registration facilities are available at:
http://www.college-of-law.co.uk/prospective_students/content2-5842.html
ENDS
For further information please contact:
Tim Devlin
The College of Law of England and Wales
Tel: 01205 290817
Mobile: 07939 544 487
Email: tde@easynet.co.uk
Website: www.college-of-law.co.uk
REVOLUTIONARY ONLINE LEGAL TRAINING UNVEILED
The UK’s leading provider of online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) training with more courses available than any other online provider, announced the official launch of its new website, Offering online legal training to meet the mandatory requirement of solicitors and barristers, legalpractitioner.co.uk is revolutionary in delivering cost and time effective online training 24 hours a day to an industry estimated to spend £230 million[1] annually on training its practitioners.
In the UK, solicitors and barristers must satisfy 16 and 12 hours of CPD training respectively in order to maintain their practicing certificate. Traditionally, CPD requirements have primarily been satisfied through a combination of in-house training, in the case of larger law firms, and external courses allowing legal professionals to accrue CPD points over a period of time. With over 115,000 solicitors and barristers registered in the UK and with between 1.4 million and 1.8 million hours of obligatory training and taking the time spent travelling to external courses, the time out of the office as well as the cost of the course into consideration, expenditure is significant. However, legalpractitioner.co.uk is able to offer a cost effective solution reducing travel time and cost, whilst increasing flexibility and convenience.
Accredited by the Law Society, the Bar Council of England and Wales and the Institute of Legal Executives the course content available on legalpractitioner.co.uk is able to deliver more than just a flexible (24/7) service accessible worldwide, it can also offer direct access to leading industry figures including Jonathan Goldberg QC, Martin Pointer QC and Gerard Forlin. The content of the courses, which are presented in text, audio and video format, is provided by legaltraining.tv., which owns an extensive library of more than 190 hours of bespoke content. With more courses than any other online provider, legalpractitioner.co.uk covers over 10 areas of law, from Common and Family Law to Litigation and Criminal Law. For example, recent updates include nine hours of exclusive content on the Company Act 2006 delivered by Professor Bill Rees of Atlas Chambers, three hours on Drafting and Writing Good English from Dr. John Birchall and Justin Patten on Mediation, ADR and Arbitration. An additional five hours of new course content is uploaded each month in order to reflect the changing nature of the legal landscape. In May, June and July the following new courses will be published:
Title Presenter
Companies Act 2 & 3 Professor Rees
Personal Injury Aquino / Dr Birchall
Litigation Review 2007 Dr Birchall
Criminal Law Review Norman Baird
Intellectual Property Dr Peter Groves
Insolvency Overview Hugo Groves
Health and Safety Scoggins
Family Law Review Professor Bailey-Harris
EU Law Edwards
EU Competiton Law Clough QC
UK Competition Law Dr Groves
Insolvency Advanced James Couser
Money Laundering Lee Bennett
Fraud Act 2006 Lee Bennett
VAT & Stamp Duty Roger Thomas
Arbitration Dr Mark Hoyle
In addition, during June LegalTraining.tv will deliver a live CPD qualifying lecture worldwide providing the opportunity for participants to directly interact with the speaker via webcam, telephone or e-mail.
Peter Lewinton, Managing Director of Legal Training.tv Ltd commented:
“All members of the Legal Profession can benefit from the efficiency improvements introduced by delivery of CPD training online. Combining online and offline training can offer a cost effective and convenient way of maintaining CPD accreditation. Therefore, I am delighted to be able to present them with a high quality proposition, which is also able to represent potential cost savings of more than 80%. With the roll out of broadband it is widely agreed that general consumer behaviour is shifting and therefore online training will take a greater market share.”
Legalpractitioner.co.uk, powered by legaltraining.tv which provides the expertise and platform to deliver the infrastructure for online distribution, was acquired last November by Peter Lewinton, who has continued to develop the site since the acquisition. First established in 2001 by the founder of the World’s first online distance learning law school, BBP Law, legalpractitioner.co.uk has already successfully registered 500 new members including 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, 3 Verulam Buildings, 1 Hare Court, The European Court of Justice and West Yorkshire Police, who recognize the quality and cost effectiveness that this form of training can deliver.
[1] On average, £2,000 is estimated to be spent per annum on each member of the legal profession to satisfy CDP requirements.
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