Diary - 24 April to 21 June
CONFERENCES AND COURSES
Housing disrepair;Recent developments in housing law25 April, 16 May: Coursesorganised by the Legal Action Group, to be held at ETC Ltd, 6 Avonmouth Street, London SE1.
Housing disrepair is on 25 April and housing law on 16 May.
Each course will run from 9.30am to 5.15pm, costs 239, and carries 6 CPD hours.
Contact Lisa Butchers, tel: 020 7833 7434.
Business planning under the specialist quality mark30 April: Courseorganised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, to be held at Jurys Hotel, 56 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester M1 5LE, from 2pm to 5pm.
Cost: 95 to 190 plus VAT.
2.5 CPD hours.
Contact Kate Comyn, tel: 020 7336 8565.
LMS /Lexcel quality forum1, 9 May: Conferences co-organised by the Law Management Section and the Lexcel office of the Law Society.
The 1 May conference will be held at the Lowry Hotel, Manchester, from 9am to 4pm.
The forum will include a keynote address by Law Society President David McIntosh.
Other sessions to include: What is quality? Cost: 150 to 295 plus VAT (various discounts available).
The 9 May conference is sponsored by the Bank of Ireland and will be held at the Royal Armouries Museum, Armouries Drive, Leeds, from 9am to 5pm.
Sessions will include banking behind the scenes.
Cost: 195 plus VAT.
Each conference carries 5 CPD hours.
Contact Paul Seymour, tel: 020 7316 5572.
Local authority annual legal update9 May: Conferenceorganised by the Law Society's Local Government Group and the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors, to be held at Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G, from 10am to 4.30pm.
Cost: 165 plus VAT.
5 CPD hours.
Contact Martina Bobrzyk, tel: 01483 275577.
16th Biennial Congress of the International Council for Commercial Arbitrators (ICCA)12-15 May: Conferenceorganised by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, to be held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, London W2.
Cost: 130 to 940.
15 CPD hours.
Contact Richard Rodger, tel: 020 7421 7441.
Forget the pink tape: the approachable bar14 May: Conferenceorganised by the Law Society Commerce and Industry Group, to be held at The Waldorf Hotel, London WC2, from 9.30am.
Cost: 150 to 200 plus VAT.
5 CPD hours.
Contact Jennifer Pennington, tel: 01925 225 131.
Housing disrepair; Local authority law and administration14, 16 May: Coursesorganised by the Law Society's Local Government Group.
Housing disrepair is on 14 May and will be held at ETC Venues, Avonmouth House, 6 Avonmouth Street, London SE1, from 10am to 4pm.
4.5 CPD hours.
Local authority law is on 16 May and will be held at ETC Venues, Bonhill House, 1-3 Bonhill Street, London EC2, from 10am to 5pm.
5.5 CPD hours.
Each course costs 135 plus VAT.
Contact Martina Bobrzyk, tel: 01483 275577.
A new Mental Health Act - reform or retreat?Mental incapacity - who is depending?20-21 June: Two-day conferenceorganised jointly by the Law Society and the Royal College of Psychiatrists, to be held at Senate House, The University of London, Malet Street, London WC1, from 9.30am to 5.30pm on both days.
Mental Health Act is on 20 June and mental incapacity on 21 June.
Cost: from 211.50 to 352.50.
11 CPD hours.
Contact Rosemary McMahon, tel: 0207 233 8322.
LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Home ownership: new horizons - the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill24 April: Lectureorganised by 2 Gray's Inn Square Chambers, to be held at Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC1 from 6.30pm to 8.30 pm.
Cost: 50 plus VAT.
2 CPD hours.
Contact Claire Halas, tel: 020 7440 8450.
Embracing partnership working - boosting your organisation's performance30 April: Seminarorganised by the Garnett Foundation, to be held at Ironmonger Hall, Barbican, London EC2, from 8am to 10.30am.
Speaker: John Bundy, a partner at Hextall Erskine.
Cost: 30 plus VAT.
Contact Amanda Harris, tel: 01494 794264.
Money laundering - solicitors as gatekeepers2 May: Roadshoworganised by the Law Society Office in Wales, to be held on 2 May at Cardiff Law School, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, from 5pm to 7pm.
Cost: 29.38.
2 CPD hours.
Contact Richard Jones, tel: 02920 645254.
Reforms in the criminal law9 May: Lecture organised by the Medico-Legal Society to be held at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1 from 8.15pm to 9.30 pm.
Speaker: Lord Justice Auld.
1.25 CPD hours.
To join the Society or to attend the meeting as a guest, contact Eloise Aspinall, tel: 020 7839 0278.
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
Poet in the City evening8 May: Eventorganised by the poet in the City project, to be held at Penningtons, Bucklersbury House, 83 Cannon Street, London EC4, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
John Mole, poet in residence, and Anthony Julius from Mishcon de Reya will lead an informal discussion on TS Eliot.
Contact Anna Frankumm, tel: 020 7457 3000.
Send entries to: Diary Section, Law Society's Gazette, Newspaper House, 8-16 Great New Street, London EC4A 3BN.
Fax: 020 7831 0869.
E-mail: steve.jones@lawsociety.org.ukInclude telephone number, venue, cost and any CPD accreditation
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