THE UH STUDENT LAW SOCIETY
PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES - FEBRUARY / MARCH 2010

Tuesday 23rd February 2010 (1 CPD point*)
(5.00pm for 5.30pm, UH St Albans Campus, 7 Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 3RR)
‘Asylum, Gender and Human Rights'
Debora Singer
Policy and Research Manager at Asylum Aid, a registered charity providing advice and legal representation to asylum-seekers and refugees


Thursday 4 March 2010 - N.B. TO BE CONFIRMED

(5.00pm for 5.30pm, UH St Albans Campus, 7 Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 3RR)
‘According to the Text ...Technology and the law'
Dr Paul Wernick
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire

Thursday 11th March 2010

(7.00pm for 7.30pm, UH St Albans Campus, 7 Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 3RR)
Student Law Society / Amnesty International Play
‘Journey Through Thorns: A Personal Story of Courage, Vision and Hope’
Written and presented by Mohamed Altawil, David Harrold and Sylvia Pepper
This event will take the form of a dramatised reading with video clips, slides and music. It is the story of Mohamed Altawil’s early life and aims to give some personal insights into what it has been like to be a Palestinian in Gaza, not just in recent months but over the past few decades.

N.B. The venue for all of the above events will be the UH School of Law, 7 Hatfield Road, St Albans AL1 3RR. Each lecture in St Albans will be preceded by free tea in the Refectory of the School. Admission is free and open to the public. UH staff, students and alumni as well as sixth form students and members of the legal profession are particularly welcome to attend. As each event is subject to possible change or delay (especially if the speaker is a Parliamentarian), it is advisable to contact the School of Law in advance to confirm that the relevant event is going ahead. For further details, please contact Lorraine de Souza (Tel: 01707 286203; Email: uhlaw-cpd@herts.ac.uk).

* 1 CPD point will be available to any solicitors who attend. The School of Law's SRA CPD Reference is LT:UHER.

Mock trial at St Albans Crown Court

Sam Stockwell (LLB yr 2) and Rosie Tackley (CPE) delivered closing speeches in the Crown Court in front of HHJ Griffith. Rebecca Gore (LLB yr 3) and Baldeep Namas (LLB yr 1) delivered closing speeches in front of HHJ Gullick. The resident judge, HHJ Baker also watched proceedings and gave the students valuable feedback. All three judges, the barristers at the Bar and the jury who watched the trial made particular reference to the speeches, commending the students on their performances.

Stephanie Kwan (LLB yr 2), Agnes Bekker (LLB yr 3), Lawrence Pearce (LLB yr 1) and Oyeyemi Bankale (LLB yr 2) undertook training as court clerks and court ushers prior to the trial and should also be commended for their performances in court. In fact, HHJ Baker was so impressed with Stephanie's performance as an usher that her offered her a job as a court usher in the vacation period.

Many of the students came away with mini-pupillages and offers of marshalling judges at the Crown Court.

The university would like to thank the students for all the hard work that they have put into this mock trial and for their professionalism when representing the University.

Well done!

UH Law School Hammers Cambridge

On the 18th December 2009 UH Law Students Reecca Gore and Terra Dugdales taught cambridge studetns a lesson on how to moot. Please do not think that that is an exaggeration,this view was fully supported by the judge's comments at the end. Further, it should not be seen as a surprise even if it is Cambridge, particularly with the two students concerned, our students have regularly shown that they can more than compete against the perceived 'better' universities. In giving his decision the judge, a senior barrister with 15 NBS chambers, was full of praise for our students and genuinely felt they can look forward to successful careers ahead of them.