School of Law Timeline: 2009 - 2010 - University of Hertfordshire

University of Hertfordshire
School of Law
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School of Law
Timeline: 2009 - 2010
LLB
Mock Trials
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Mooting
Semi-finalists
2010
Internships
Consultancy
Research Degrees
LPC
Streetlaw
Debating

Foreword
Foreword
The 2009/10 academic year has, once
again, represented an outstanding year
of achievement and success for the
School of Law. As in previous years, a
considerable amount of this may be
attributed to the close collaboration of
staff and students as well as the
excellent ongoing working relationship
which the School has with the regional
community; continuously implementing
our business-facing vision and ensuring
that entrepreneurialism is at the heart of
our activities. Significant achievements
during the past academic year include:
• Being Semi-Finalists of the English-
Speaking Union / Essex Court
Chambers National Mooting
Competition in 2010 as well as
reaching the last 16 of the BPP /
OUP National Mooting Competition.
• Securing sponsorship for our
mooting and mock trial activities from
a leading Criminal Set of Chambers,
15 New Bridge Street, London.
• Hosting the Annual Public Lecture
delivered by the Honourable Sir
Justice Eady in November 2009 as
part of the School’s wider Public
Lecture Series.
• Enjoying continued success in
academic research and publication
attuned to the needs of the
profession, employers, as well as the
wider national and international
environment, resulting in some of the
sectors leading texts in Criminal Law,
Company Law, English Law as well
as in e-Commerce Law and Human
Rights Law.
• Securing planning permission for,
and seeing the commencement of
work on, the new £10 million Law
Court Building at the entrance to the
University’s de Havilland campus.
• Enjoying an ever growing wealth of
student-led social events which
included Burns Night, Chinese New
Year, Indian Night and African Night
alongside more traditional events
such as the Student Law Society
Annual Ball.
For the third successive year, the
School has achieved an overall
approval rating of 90% or greater in the
National Student Survey, which ranks
us amongst the top quarter of Law
Schools in the country. This is a
reflection of the School’s commitment
to the delivery of a creative, ambitious
and high quality educational experience
whereby students are placed at the
heart of what we do.
Over the past year, the School has
validated successfully its new full-time
Legal Practice Course, which will be
launched in September 2010 and
includes ‘pathways’ in Corporate
Finance, Commercial Law, Private Client
and Dispute Resolution, offering
students the opportunity to tailor-make
their programme of study so as to suit
their intended careers. In line with our
innovative and forward looking ethos,
students will have the opportunity to
work in a newly created Mediation
Centre, which will run alongside our
current pro bono Law Clinic and
Graduate Consulting Unit, and will
provide students with a unique
opportunity to engage in a live client
advice service as part of their studies.
The School has also successfully
diversified its undergraduate portfolio,
gaining formal approval from the JASB
to introduce an LLB in Commercial Law
and LLB in Government & Politics,
building on our current successes and
furthering our ambitious and
entrepreneurial approach towards legal
education. This was accompanied
during 2009/10 by the pilot of online
seminars and lectures which not only
underpin the development of one of the
most flexible part-time LLB degrees in
the sector, but also ensure that
preparations are in place for the launch
of the School’s new distance learning
LLB in September 2011.
It is an exciting and rewarding time to be
a part of the School of Law, whether as
a student, academic or via our wide
range of professional training or
community oriented activities. As always,
the School would like to express its
gratitude to members of the Judiciary, St
Albans Chambers, the Hertfordshire Law
Society and regional firms for their
continued support as well as the
development of our students and
graduates.
If you have not yet had the opportunity
to review our other literature, such as the
National Student Survey or Student
Profile booklets, then I would encourage
you to take the time to learn more about
the close collaboration that exists
between the School’s academic staff,
our student body and our wide range of
stakeholders, as well as the resulting
successes which arise on a yearly basis.
Dr Charles Wild
Head of the School of Law
Foreward
1

SEPTEMBER 2009
2
The Metropolitan Police
invites six students to join
a criminal trial role play in
London.
1 2 3
LLB students Empress
Davies, Chrissie Moore,
Beverley Luisola and
Tasmin Malcolm all secure
a mini-pupilage with
chambers in London after
taking part in the Mock
Trial Project at St Albans
Crown Court.
Maureen Johnson
publishes article
on the provisions
relating to illegal
indecent images of
children contained
within the
Coroners and
Justice Act in the
Solicitor's Journal.
The School of Law
celebrates its first
graduates from the
Distance Learning
Graduate Diploma
in Law.
4 5 6 7
Sharon Korek
achieves the status
of Fellow of the
Higher Education
Academy.
Former LLB Student James
McCarville secures a position
as a trainee solicitor working
for J Garrard and Son.
One of the School's Associate
Heads, Penny Wiggins, attends
an awards ceremony in London
following her success at
becoming a National Teaching
Fellow of the Higher Education
Academy.
8
The School of Law
secures sponsorship
from 15 New Bridge
Street Criminal
Chambers for its Internal
Advocacy Competition
and mooting and mock
trial activities.
A social event is held to
welcome members of the
Criminal Justice Team to
the School.
Progression figures for the LLB
2008/09 show improvement on
the previous year and
demonstrate that students are
engaging well in the Programme.
9 10 11 12 13 14
Figures released show that the School
recycled 43% of waste in the 2008/09
academic year.
Tort Module Leader, Neal Geach,
launches the pilot of an online tort
seminar via the Flash Meeting
platform. Twenty students sign up.
Dr Charles Wild and
Dr Stuart Weinstein's book
'Smith and Keenan's
Company Law' reaches
the top-20 of sales for
Law Books on Amazon.
Part-time LLB student Sandy
Dallimore returns from San Jose
University through the University's
Study Abroad initiative. She studied
alongside other American students
during the six week period.
15
Abigail Mann gives a paper entitled:
'Let's get personal: Does your
computer listen to what you say?' at
the e-learning conference, held at the
University of Greenwich and also leads
a LTI Seminar in September 2009
called: 'Turn on, Tune in and Listen'.
16
Dr Paul Stookes
publishes a
textbook on
Environmental law
entitled 'Costing
The Earth:
Guidance for
Sentencers 2009'.
A number of Law
students assisted in
the publication of
this book.
SEPTEMBER 2009 3

OCTOBER 2009
4
1
The Student Law
Society’s Debating
Team, supported by
academic Ralph
Camp, relaunches
with the start of an
internal competition
and its own
Facebook page.
2 3
Students are invited to the
ICLR Annual Lecture held
at Lincoln's Inn and
presented by Lord Walker
of Gestingthorpe on the
loss of chance in terms of
causation.
Over 150 students attend
the Freshers' Week Grand
Debate with the motion:
'This House believes that
the right to a reputation
should always trump the
right to freedom of
expression'. The speakers
include: Louis
Charalambous (a partner
at Simons Muirhead &
Burton Solicitors) and Dr
Ian Gibson (the former
Labour MP for Norwich
North).
4 5 6
Dr Klearchos Kyriakides
gives a Public Lecture
entitled: 'Integrity, the
Legal Profession and
Public Life: Some
reflections on the uproar
over the payments and
expenses of MPs'.
Auditions for the Mooting Team
and the Mock Trial Project are held
- in an overwhelming response
over 150 students compete for 80
places.
Judy Ramjeet and Julian Young
(who represented Sean Hodgson,
who had spent twenty seven
years in prison for a murder he
did not commit) offer students
their reflections on this high
profile case in a Public Lecture
entitled 'The Long Road to
Freedom: The Implications of R v
Hodgson [2009] for miscarriages
of justice and the rule of law'.
7
The School of Law supports
Black History Month and
Associate Head, Dr Stuart
Weinstein, gives a Public
Lecture on this theme entitled:
'Does Michelle Obama's Hair
Matter? The Symbolism
Behind America's First African
American First Lady'.
8 10
9
LPC student
Carla Hemsley
secures a job
as an usher at
St Albans
Magistrates
Court.
The School of Law
recruits is highest ever
number of students to its
LLM Programme.
Students taking part in Streetlaw lead all
Year 8 lessons at Verulam School for a day
to educate the boys about public law.
Over forty law
students attend a
careers session led
by Hertfordshire
Constabulary.
A team of
Streetlaw students
visit Hertsaid, an
AIDS charity in
Ware, to give a
presentation on
asylum and
refugee law, ably
assisted by
alumnus Klevis
Taho.
11 12 13 14 15 16
The LLB
Programme,
under Marina
Hamilton,
successfully
validates two
new LLB
pathways in
Government
and Politics and
Commercial
Law.
Students involved in the Mooting
Team and Mock Trial Project
participate in a project with trainee
social workers to give them
experience of being crossexamined
in court.
Kevin Rogers is appointed
as a Consultant on Data
Protection for
Underwoods Solicitors
and Law Abroad Plc.
The first group of
Ukrainian
students are
recruited to the
International Law
Programmes,
recently validated
by the University,
and taught at
the National Law
Academy of the
Ukraine.
OCTOBER 2009 5

NOVEMBER 2009
6
Lord McNally, the leader of
the Liberal Democrats in
the House of Lords,
presents a Public Lecture
entitled: 'Constitutional
Renewal: The Prospects for
Constitutional Reform'.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Director-General of the Cyprus
Broadcasting Corporation,
Themis Themistocleous, gives a
Public Lecture entitled: 'Ethics in
Broadcast Journalism'.
The continuing Public Lecture Series sees
Dr Paul Stookes lecture students on
'Costing the Earth: Protecting the
Environment Through the Courts'.
Over 350 people are in attendance at the
Weston Auditorium for the School of Law
Annual Lecture. The Honourable Sir Justice
Eady reflects on his experience in a large
number of important privacy and defamation
cases and lectures on 'The Balance Between
Privacy and Freedom of Expression'.
Economics editor of
The Guardian Larry
Elliot provides the last
Public Lecture of the
term entitled: 'The
Second Wall Street
Crash: The Causes
and Consequences'.
His Honour Judge
Marc Dight, a Circuit
Court Chancery
Judge hosts a
number of visits to
the Central London
Civil Justice Centre
by School of Law
students. Over 100
students apply for
24 spaces.
7
Ralph Camp and the
Student Law Society
organises a trip to
the Cambridge Union
Debate with the
motion 'Berlin Wall
Debate: This House
Believes the West
Wasted the
Opportunity
Presented by the Fall
of the Berlin Wall'.
Proposing the
motion were: Sir
Emyr Jones Parry
GCMG, Bruce Ken
and John Kampfner,
while Bernard
Jenkin, MP and The
Earl of Onslow (who
have both given
Public Lectures at
the School) were
opposing.
Rosamund Rhodes Kemp, Partner in Kester Cunningham
John Solicitors and John Mead, Technical Director of the
National Health Litigation Authority are invited to speak to
students studying the Medical Law module.
8 9
10
Head of Chambers Patrick Upward QC,
and Barrister Angelo Power, both of 15
New Bridge Street Chambers give a
Guest Lecture entitled 'Advocacy: Getting
it right' for all students involved in the
Mooting Team and Mock Trial Project.
11
Mock Trial Co-ordinator,
Nicola Haralambous,
takes twelve students to
Southwark Crown Court
to act as jurors in a mock
trial organised by the
Westminster Police
Constable Foundation.
The mock trial was
designed to help train
new police officers in
giving evidence.
The Student Law
Society organises
a charity disco for
Children in Need.
12 13 14
The University receives
planning permission
for new £10m Law
Court Building at the
de Havilland Campus.
The graduation
ceremony at St Albans
Abbey sees nearly 200
successful law students
graduate. One of our
graduates, Matt King,
received national press
and television coverage
after he obtained a First
Class Law Degree
despite sustaining
series injuries in a rugby
accident some years
earlier.
Penny Carey visits
Malaysia to meet
prospective law
students from our
collaborative partners
in Malaysia.
NOVEMBER 2009 7

DECEMBER 2009
8
Eight students take part in a Mock
Trial at St Albans Crown Court. Sam
Stockwell, Rosie Tackley, Rebecca
Gore and Baldeep Namas delivered
closing speeches, while Oyeyemi
Bankale, Agnes Bekker, Lawrence
Pearce and Stephanie Kwan
undertook training as court clerks
and court ushers. Stephanie secured
work experience as a court usher as
a result of this and others secured
mini-pupilages and marshalling
opportunities.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Third year student Patrick Nyamangunda
obtains legal experience marshalling for HHJ
Baker QC at the Crown Court in St Albans and
obtains a mini-pupilage with leading Criminal
Chambers 5 Paper Buildings in London.
Students are invited to an event
organised by the Hertfordshire Family
Forum led by Dr John Heckmatt on
the role of the local NHS in family law
matters including child protection after
the 'Baby P' case.
The Student Law Society hosts a
public debate on the motion 'This
House believes it is ethically
improper for broadcasters to give a
platform to democratically-elected
extremists'.
School of Law staff and students form a team to take
part in the Hertfordshire Law Society Annual Pub Quiz.
School of Law
Lecturer, Bill Davies,
leads a CPD event
for local Solicitors
on section 172 of
the Companies Act
2006.
7
8
Students are invited to a practical
workshop on money laundering
led by Dr Klearchos Kyriakides.
LLB students Karissa
Naidoo and Fahrina
Maharaj are narrowly
defeated by
Cambridge University
in the first round of
the ICLR National
Mooting Competition.
Students are
invited to a lecture
organised by the
Hertfordshire Law
Society entitled
'Employment Law
Update' by Fergus
McCombie, a
Barrister from
St Albans
Chambers.
9 10
Second year student,
Charleigh Nash, is awarded
a prize by the Chambers of
John Coffey QC, 3 Temple
Gardens for achieving the
highest grade in the
Criminal Law module.
11
12
The School of Law's
Streetlaw Project form
a relationship with
Dacorum Emergency
Night Shelter (DENs)
for our students to
provide legal
information to their
residents.
Students are
invited to a CPD
seminar, on the
European Union's
Lisbon Treaty, at
the Strand
Campus of King's
College, London.
13 14 15
John Cooper, a Barrister
from 25 Bedford Row, a
specialist Criminal Set of
Chambers gives a Guest
Lecture to members of
the Mooting Team and
Mock Trial Project
entitled: 'Advocacy -
The Basic Principle'.
Staff and students are invited to a lecture by Sir Henry
Brooke, Chairman of the Civil Mediation Council, on
alternative dispute resolution and mediation and the
implications for the civil justice system.
Rebecca Gore and Tara Dugdale beat
Cambridge University in the first round of
the ESU National Mooting Competition.
16
Penny Carey gives a paper
at the SRHE conference in Wales on
discourses in internationalisation of
Higher Education.
17
Kevin Rogers collaborates
with Dr Jonathan
Passmore, Chartered
Occupational Psychologist
and accredited coach with
the Association for
Coaching and working for
the University of East
London, to present a
paper on the legal aspects
of coaching at the BPS
Conference, held at Royal
Holloway University.
DECEMBER 2009 9

JANUARY 2010
10
1
School of Law academics Sharon
Korek, Karen Clark, David Slee,
Maureen Johnson, Penny Wiggins and
Distance Learning GDL student Brenna
Baye secure CABLE 4 Project funding
for research into enhancing student
engagement in the distance learning
Graduate Diploma in Law.
2
Streetlaw presentations on democracy
take place during the entire day at
Verulam School, St Albans.
Elaine Carter and
Sahel Mortazavvi
handsomely defeats
Queen Mary University
in the first round of the
OUP National Mooting
Competition.
Associate Head, Dr Stuart Weinstein, is appointed by
the Bar Council as a Senior Legal Academic Member
of the Bar Standards Board's Education and Training
Committee. This Committee oversees all regulatory
activity relating to education and training for the Bar.
3 4 5 6 7 8
Graduate Diploma in Law
student, Brenna Baye, pioneers
a drop-in session for students
struggling with the online legal
database WestLaw.
Maria Angus takes final year LLB students
Dan Berger, Jo Witherden and James
Feltwell to the YMCA in Welwyn Garden
City to give a Streetlaw presentation to
staff and residents on the law surrounding
the relationships between banks and their
customers. The students had benefited
from valuable help and support from
Banking Law lecturers Chris Kirkbride and
Bill Davies.
Maria Ansbro publishes a peer
reviewed article in the Howard
Journal entitled: ‘Nuts and Bolts
of Risk Assessment: When the
Clinical and Actuarial Conflict’.
Third year tutor,
Simon Barnett,
undertakes a review
for Oxford University
Press on their latest
Equity and Trusts
textbook.
9
Richard Snowden QC, Senior
Member of the Executive of the
Commercial Bar Association
and Deputy Judge in the
Chancery Division, gives
students involved in the
Mooting Team and Mock Trial
Project a guest lecture entitled
'Commercial Advocacy in the
Higher Courts'. Richard is
pictured with Mooting Officer,
Neal Geach and student
Stephanie Kwan, who chaired
the event.
10 11 12
Members of the Student
Law Society arrange a
cake sale in aid of the
Haiti Earthquake Appeal.
Twenty-two teams enter the
Student Law Society Internal
Debating Competition.
Miles Hurley
receives his LLM
(with Distinction).
Rebecca Gore and Tara
Dugdale beat Nottingham
University in the ESU/Essex
Court Chambers National
Mooting Competition.
Dr Virginie Barral
completes the Year in
Review on Sustainable
Development for the Year
Book of International
Environmental Law.
13 14 15 16 17
The School of Law
successfully
validates a new fulltime
Legal Practice
Course. This
Programme will
provide flexibility for
students by offering
a mixture of campus
and distance learning
and gives the
opportunity to
students to study
towards a specialism
and a full LLM in
Legal Practice.
Over twenty staff
and students
visit the Royal
Courts of Justice
to witness the
first ever nonjury
criminal trial.
Deputy Vice-
Chancellor Graham
Galbraith addresses
the Haggis at the
Annual School of
Law Burns Night
Celebration
attended by over 60
staff and students.
JANUARY 2010 11

FEBRUARY 2010
12
1
Crossbench Peer Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick
continues the Public Lecture Series with a lecture
entitled: 'Corporate Social Responsibility and
Business Ethics'.
2
3
Justice of the Peace,
Nicholas Moss, gives a
Public Lecture entitled:
'Community Confidence
and the Magistracy'.
Loreto College is the latest
venue to be visited by
students on the Streetlaw
Project and five classes of
year ten girls were given
information on ASBOs.
4
Dr Charles Wild is
elected Chair of
the University's
Academic Heads
Group.
5
Students are invited to a Family Law
CPD event led by Barrister Elissa Da
Costa on pre-nuptial agreements.
The Mock Trial Project and
Streetlaw combines as children
from a School in Kings Langley
visit the School of Law and are
taught advocacy techniques by
six of our students to prepare
them for their National Mock
Trial Competition. The School
subsequently reached the
regional finals.
Edwin Glasgow QC presents a
Public Lecture entitled: 'The Court
of Public Opinion - An Affront to
the Rule of Law'.
Lincoln's Inn invites ten of our students
to attend their Annual Dinner and receive
further information on training for the bar.
Susan Glenholme (Partner) and Stephanie
Setters (Trainee Solicitor) of Debenhams
Ottaway give students a presentation on
how to become a Solicitor.
Students Jane Deller and
John Goh qualify for the
National Client
Interviewing Competition
Finals by being runners
up in the regional finals
held in Cardiff.
Rebecca Gore and Tara Dugdale beat the
University of Leicester to make it through to
the last 16 of the ESU/Essex Court
Chambers National Mooting Competition.
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
BBC Three Counties
Radio invites members
of the School's
debating team to
contribute to a feature
on the importance of
debating.
Over forty staff and students
attend the Chinese New Year
Party held at a local restaurant.
Lawrence Pearce and
Sam Stockwell moot in
the second round of the
OUP/BPP National
Mooting Competition
against the University of
Gloucestershire.
15
16
The English
Speaking Union
invites applications
from students for
a summer
internship
programme held
in the USA.
Third year student,
Daryl Tollervey,
undertakes a work
placement at IP
specialists Scott
York with Head of
the Trade Mark
Division Lynn Harris.
FEBRUARY 2010 13

MARCH 2010
14
Maria Angus gives a paper and
conducts an interactive seminar
session on 'Streetlaw as a Foundation
of Pedagogy' at the Association of Law
Teachers Conference at Clare College
Cambridge.
1 2 3 4
Dr Paul Wernick, Senior
Lecturer in Computer Science,
University of Hertfordshire,
presents a Public Lecture
entitled: 'According to the Text:
Technology and the law'.
Law Students
Mohamed Altawil,
David Harrold and
Sylvia Pepper present
'Journey Through
Thorns: A Personal
Story of Courage,
Vision and Hope',
which is a series of
works looking at what
life is like as a
Palestinian in Gaza.
Debora Singer, Policy and Research Manager
at Asylum Aid, gives a Public Lecture entitled:
'Asylum, Gender and Human Rights'.
The Bar Standards Board invites
students to take part in a pilot of a Bar
Aptitude Test.
The School of Law
holds it first ever
Indian Night with over
forty staff and
students attending
the event.
Verulam School in
St Albans hosts the
School's Streetlaw Project
during its 'Democracy
Day', involving drama and
discussion of topics from
the Rule of Law to voting
systems and ending with
a mock election.
The Student Law
Society open
nominations for
representatives to
compete in the
European Debating
Competition.
The Weston Foundation donates £250,000 to
help towards the new Law School building on
the de Havilland Campus.
The School hosts the
final of the Internal
Debating
Competition, with
Olivia Tartaletti and
Francesco Cuffaro up
against the eventual
winners Mohammed
Elmi and Kass Winch.
More than one
hundred students
witnessed the duel.
5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Staff and students fill a
table at the West
London Law Society's
Golden Jubilee Dinner
at the Royal Air Force
Club in London, with
speakers including
Lord Carlile of Berriew
QC and Linda Lee,
Vice-President of
The Law Society.
The Annual Greek Night is held
commencing with a lecture on
the origins of Greek music given
by Dr Klearchos Kyriakides.
15
Sharon Korek
and Karen Clark
present at the
LTI Conference
on innovations
on the Graduate
Diploma in Law
in relation to
student
feedback.
Former Law School student Hashi Mohamed was crowned as the
Lincoln's Inn Mooting Champion for 2010. In the final, the chairman of
the judging panel was Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, a Justice of the
new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
16
Tara Dugdale and
Rebecca Gore
defeat the University
of Sheffield in the
quarter finals of the
national ESU/Essex
Court Chambers
Mooting Competition
held in the School of
Law's Courtroom
and judged by His
Honour Judge
Griffiths of St Albans
Crown Court.
Four separate Streetlaw teams, totalling
sixteen students, visit Adeyfield School in
Hemel Hempstead, to deliver presentations
on ADR, The European Court of Human
Rights, the new Supreme Court and the
process of Judicial Review.
MARCH 2010 15

APRIL 2010
16
Criminal Law Module Leader,
Nicola Haralambous,
publishes a textbook on
Criminal Law with Oxford
University Press.
Students involved in the
Streetlaw Project give
fifteen presentations in
one day on the topic of
cyber-bullying.
The Final of the Internal Advocacy Competition
(sponsored by 15 New Bridge Street Chambers
and judged by His Honour Judge Radford QC,
resident judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court) is
held and is won by LLB students Tara Dugdale,
Rebecca Gore, Nesa Ostadsaffar and Julie Wall
(who all secured a mini-pupilage as part of their
prize). The runners up are a team of GDL
students: Sarah Warburton, Emma Fraser,
Rosemary Tackley and John Goh.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Maria Angus takes a number of
students to deliver an entire day
of lessons to pupils at Verualam
School on the subject of
democracy. The day begins with
a drama, directed by Los
Watkins, on the origins of
Democracy and includes quizzes,
speech writing and a referendum.
Visual images of the new Law Building at the
de Havilland campus are released. The new
building will have a state-of-the-art Courtroom
with public gallery, a bespoke Law Clinic and
regional Mediation Centre.
Many staff and students
attend a CPD seminar on
Employment Law and the
Equality Act 2010 by
Michael Delaney and other
Solicitors from Matthew
Arnold Baldwin LLP.
The School of Law's joint LLM/MA
Masters' Programme is included in
this year's official rating 'Top-25
Best International Programmes' in
Ukraine, which is the highest level
of recognition available.
Former Master of the Rolls, Lord
Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord,
Lord Bingham, gives the Annual
Chancellor's Lecture entitled 'The
Law Around Us'.
Dr Charles Wild and
Dr Stuart Weinstein
have a paper entitled
'Cyber-attacks: What
should be the rules of
engagement?'
accepted for the 2010
BILETA Annual
Conference held in
Vienna, Austria.
The School of Law collaborates with St Albans
Council to celebrate the 800th anniversary of
the Magna Carta. Events include a series of
lectures by lecturers Ralph Camp, Karen Clark,
Los Watkins and Dr Klearchos Kyriakides and
a public debate involving staff and students.
Dr Virginie Barral is a member of a
research project entitled 'Study of the
Legal Framework on Human Rights
and the Environment applicable to
European Enterprises operating
outside the European Union'. This was
conducted by the University of
Edinburgh for the European
Commission, Directorate-General for
Enterprise and Industry. Virginie was in
charge, together with Saida El
Boudouhi (Jean Monnet Fellow, EUI) of
drafting the report relating to the
French legal framework.
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
The Vice-Chancellor 'turns
the first sod' as builders
commence working on the
new Law Building on the
de Havilland Campus.
The School hosts a combined family
law/trusts of land/probate CPD
seminar, in association with the
Hertfordshire Family Justice Council,
focusing on three inter-connected
subjects: Trusts of Land in the light of
Stack v Dowden [2007] UKHL 17,
Pensions on Divorce and Probate.
The School of Law welcomes
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Graham
Galbraith, to talk through the
University's new Strategic Plan.
Los Watkins
attends a
conference in
Salzburg and
delivers a very well
received paper
entitled 'Control
Orders - The
Beginning of the
End?' This will be
published as part
of an e-book on
'Evil and the State'.
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MAY 2010
18
Second Year Tutor, Nicola Haralambous,
is awarded Fellowship of the Higher
Education Academy.
1 2
3
Twelve members of the School staff are nominated
in the Vice Chancellor's Award for University Tutor of
the Year, specifically: Maria Angus, Karen Clark,
Heather Crook, Bill Davies, Neal Geach, Nawal
Houghton, Christopher Kirkbride, Dr Klearchos
Kyriakides, Melissa Newbury, John O'Brien,
Geraldine Poulain and Sophie Tarassenko.
The Human Rights Lawyers
Association and the Law Society
invites students to attend a careers
event on how to become a human
rights lawyer.
4 5 6
Dr Fang Ma publishes a review
on Chinese Business Law in
the International Commercial
and Company Law Review.
7
First year student, Lawrence
Pearce, obtains employment
as Court Evidence Clerk for
the Potters Bar Rail Enquiry.
Dr Virginie Barrel is involved in a
European-wide research project
called the 'UK Election Compass'.
It enables prospective voters to
compare how their policy
preferences overlap with the stated
policy positions of the main parties.
Members of the Shanghai
Bureau of Justice studying
on the LLM visit the
Central Criminal Court
(better known as the 'Old
Bailey') in London.
8
Law Clinic feedback
continues to show an
exceptionally high level of
service by our students.
One client said: “I wish
they could have done
legal aid and took me all
the way to the end of my
fight as I think they are
excellent”.
Head of School,
Dr Charles Wild, is
appointed to work
with the Law Society
of Scotland as part
of their Accreditation
Panel.
9 10 11 12 13
Dr Charles Wild and Dr Stuart Weinstein
author the 16th Edition of ‘Smith and
Keenan’s English Law: Text and Cases’.
Students are invited by the
Hertfordshire Family to listen to Mr
Justice Hedley, of the High Court
give a lecture entitled 'Significant
harm: where do you draw the line?'.
LLM students Zhu ShenLing and Michael
Rutz win awards at the International
Student Association Annual Award
Ceremony. They are presented their
awards by Pro-Vice Chancellor, Barry Hunt.
14
Former Conservative Cabinet
Minister, Jonathan Aitken
delivers the Annual Lecture of
the Hertfordshire Magistrates
Association held at the School
of Law. The lecture is entitled
'Prison: Past Experiences and
Future Aspirations'.
At the Student Law Society Ball,
Vincent Adon is announced as
the winner of the election for
President of the Student Law
Society 2010-11.
Associate Head, Dr Stuart Weinstein, launches a Graduate Consulting Unit with School of
Law students. The Graduate Consulting Unit will enable graduate students to undertake
legal consulting work under the supervision of a School of Law staff member. Not only will
this provide our graduate students with further opportunities for work experience but it will
generate consultancy income for the School of Law.
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JUNE 2010
20
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Five graduating students - Tasmin Malcolm,
Rebecca Gore, Julie Wall, Nesa Ostadsaffar
and Dan Berger - all receive substantial
scholarships of up to £8000 from the Middle
Temple toward their Bar Professional
Training Course. Only twenty Scholarships
are awarded nationally and School of Law
students obtained 25% of them.
2 3 4
Students are invited to
engage in a virtual careers
fair to browse for graduate
opportunities and speak to a
consultant about CV
structure or interview style.
The Hertfordshire Law Society invites students to a
CPD event entitled: entitled 'Access to Justice: The
Law Society's Access to Justice Review and costs in
Civil Litigation' presented by Mr Andrew Caplen,
Solicitor and Chairman of The Law Society's Access to
Justice Committee.
Tara Dugdale and Rebecca
Gore are narrowly defeated by
Oxford University in the semifinals
of the ESU/Essex Court
Chambers National Mooting
Competition held at the Royal
Courts of Justice in London.
This maintains our track
record of reaching the finals
or semi-finals in national
mooting competitions in the
last three years.
5
A number of staff and students attend the
Hertfordshire Law Society Black Tie Annual
Dinner. Robert Heslett, President of The Law
Society is the after-dinner speaker.
6
Students are invited to the Legal
Charities' Garden Party held at
Lincoln's Inn.
7
8
Dr Kirsten Shoraka
publishes a book
entitled ‘Human Rights
and Minority Rights in
the European Union.
The School of Law
relaunches its parttime
LLB Programme
to allow students to
engage in the
programme in a
variety of flexible
ways, including day or
weekend study,
evening classes and
distance learning.
Final year student Nchimunya Simooya is invited to meet the Vice-Chancellor,
Lord Salisbury and other members of the University Court at Hatfield House to
discuss their student experience.
9 10
11
Maureen Johnson and Jerome
Chan host 30 pupils from schools
in Luton on a Gifted and Talented
'Yorkshire Ripper' day.
12
Nicola Haralambous,
along with Chris
Monaghan, have an
article entitled: 'Twelve
Empty Seats:
reflections on judge
only trials after jury
tampering' in the
Criminal Bar Quarterly.
Over forty members of staff attend
an information session on the new
Law Building being built on the de
Havilland Campus.
Penny Carey gives a paper at the InCULT
Conference organised by the School of
Education entitled 'Policy Perspectives of
Internationalisation of Higher Education'.
13 14 15
The LLM, under David Slee,
launches a new series of
Work Experience modules.
These will run alongside the
dissertation and will allow
students to undertake
exercises in commercial
drafting and gain a thorough
practical appreciation of the
workings of the English Legal
System and areas of Practice
Management including
competitiveness, profitability
and managing for change.
The West London Law
Society invites students to
attend a CPD seminar on
professional indemnity
insurance led by Mr Mike
Chard.
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JULY 2010
22
Maureen Johnson presents a
paper entitled: 'Freedom of
expression in cyberspace and
the Coroners and Justice Act
2009' at the 3rd International
Seminar on Information Law at
the Ioninan University, Corfu.
1 2 3
Claudia Carr is asked to write
a book entitled: 'Unlocking
Medical law and Ethics'.
LLM students visit the University’s
solicitors Mills and Reeve in
Cambridge and the Royal Courts of
Justice in London as part of the LLM
Work Experience Module.
4
5
Second year LLB student, Anum Malik, is appointed to the
position of School Student Representative Officer.
School of Law students act as jurors for the
Metropolitan Police during a mock trial at
Southwark Crown Court.
6
LLB graduate, Gemma Whitehouse, is appointed
as an Advocate for Age Concern in Essex and will
undertake a part-time Bar Professional Training
Course at the same time as working.
7
Neal Geach and Nicola
Haralambous have an article
entitled: 'Online Harassment and
Public Dis-order' published in the
Criminal Law and Justice Weekly.
8
Five members of
academic staff obtain
book deals with
Pearson Longman to
author a new series of
law textbooks: Marina
Hamilton (Contract
Law), Neal Geach (Law
of Tort), Rita D'Alton-
Harrison (Evidence),
Nicola Haralambous
(Criminal Law) and
Dr Fang Ma (Company
Law).
Third year student
Rebecca Gore is asked
by John Cooper QC to
undertake research for
his forthcoming book
on the Coroners and
Justice Act.
9 10 11 12
Nicola Haralambous and Maureen
Johnson publish an article on the Raoul
Moat case and incitement to violence for
the Criminal Law and Justice Weekly
entitled 'Facebook- friend or foe.'
Thirteen First Class LLB Degrees are awarded at the
Graduation Board. The successful students are:
Nick Abraham, Theodora Batley, Daniel Berger, Tara
Dugdale, Keven Fehmi, Rebecca Gore, Louise Hall,
Arya Hussain, Tasmin Malcolm, Lauren Monk, Rachel
Ruston, Julie Wall and Yi Wen Ng. This is the highest
number of First Class Degrees in the history of the
School of Law, while Yi Wen Ng is our first student,
who is a direct entrant from Brickfields College,
Malaysia to be awarded with a First Class Degree.
The Chief Executive of the Hertfordshire Probation
Trust invites staff and students to meet with twenty
members of the Chinese Judiciary.
13
14
Dr Charles Wild is
appointed as a
representative of the
Joint Academic Stage
Board from September
2010 onwards on a
permanent, open-ended
basis.
Helen Singer, Melissa Newbury,
Sue Woodcock, and Marina
Hamilton win the Dean’s Award
for Excellence in Learning,
Teaching and Employability for
Semester B 2009-2010 for a
project entitled: ‘Developing
employability and subject study
skills through on-line learning
materials’. This project facilitated
the learning of subject study and
employability skills through
innovative online materials which
were embedded in a core
module for year one
undergraduate students.
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