Diary - 29 November 2002 to 10 February 2003

CONFERENCES AND COURSES

Devolved powers; Maximising criminal costs 2; Surviving the Civil Costs Audit; Maximising civil costs29 November; 3, 5 December: Coursesorganised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group.

Criminal costs 2 will be held on 29 November at the Premier Lodge, Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Devolved powers will be held on 3 December at 150 Minories, London EC3.

Maximising civil costs will be held on 5 December at Jury's Inn, 56 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester.

All run from 1.30pm to 5pm and carry 3 CPD hours except Maximising criminal costs 2, which runs from 9.30am to 5pm and carries 6 CPD hours.

Cost: 95 to 300 plus VAT.

Contact Kate Comyn, tel: 020 7336 8565.

Ninth annual planning law conference; Premises and pupils - the legal pitfalls for LEAs; Truancy prosecutions and allied matters2, 3 December: Conference/coursesorganised by the Law Society's Local Government Group and the Association of Council Secretaries and Solicitors, to be held at ETC Venues, Avonmouth House, 6 Avonmouth Street, London SE1.

Planning law conference will be on 2 December from 10am to 5pm.

Cost: 169 plus VAT.

5.5 CPD hours.

Premises and pupils and Truancy prosecutions will be on 3 December.

Each runs from 10am to 1.15pm, costs 79 plus VAT, and carries 3 CPD hours.

Contact Lucy Fox, tel: 01483 275577.

Employment Law Act 20022 December; 10 February 2003: Courseorganised by Two Garden Court Chambers and the Legal Services Commission, to be held on 2 December at Woburn House,20 Tavistock Square, London WC1, and on 10 February at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Playhouse Square, Quarry Hill, Leeds, from 9.30am to 5.30pm.

Cost: 30 to 60 plus VAT.

7 CPD hours.

Contact Andrew Eaton, tel: 020 7415 6366.

Housing and community care; Young carers research, good practice & the law; Carers' benefits - advanced; The new NHS: structure & implications; Community care law: advanced; Older people: community care, continuing care & capacity4, 5, 10, 18 December; 7, 15 January 2003: Coursesorganised by Carers UK, to be held at Ruth Pitter House, 20-25 Glasshouse Yard, London EC1, from 10am to 4.30pm.

Housing, the new NHS, community care law, and older people have 5 CPD hours each, and carers' benefits has 1.5 CPD hours.

Cost: 90 to 165 each.

Contact Chris Hockley, tel: 020 7566 7632.

Privacy - lost or found?9 December: Conferenceorganised by Justice and Sweet & Maxwell, to be held at Masons, 30 Aylesbury Street, London EC1, from 9.30am to 5.30pm.

Cost: 295 plus VAT (discounts available).

5.5 CPD hours.

Contact Ruth Allen, tel: 020 7329 5100.

Applying the European public procurement rules to major projects24 January: Conferenceorganised by the White Paper Conference Company, to be held at the Berkeley Hotel, Wilton Place, London SW1, from 930am to 5pm.

Cost: 295 plus VAT.

6 CPD hours.

Contact Natasha Airey, tel: 020 7471 0430.

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

The White Paper on English company law reform and the Takeover Directive2 December: Lectureorganised by the British Japanese Law Association, to be held at Kingsley Napley, Knights Quarter, 14 St John's Lane, London EC1 from 6pm to 8pm.

Free of charge.

Contact Amina Karanie, tel: 020 7519 7014 or e-mail: akaranie@skadden.com

Extensions of time; Arbitration with the benefit of the Construction Act 3, 10 December: Lecturesorganised by the Society of Construction Law.

Extensions of time will be held on 3 December at the Renaissance Hotel, Carter Lane East, South Normanton, Derbyshire, from 6pm to 7pm.

Arbitration (organised jointly with TECBAR) will be held on 10 December at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1, from 6.15pm to 7.15pm.

Admission free.

1 CPD hour each.

Contact Jackie Morris, tel: 01235 770606.

Human rights at the close of 2002: the national is international5 December: Seminar and receptionorganised by the Law Society's International Human Rights Committee, to be held at The Law Society's Hall, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2, from 6.30pm to 9pm.

Free admission.

Contact Mel James, tel: 020 7320 5881.

The confidentiality of jury deliberations6 December: Lectureorganised by the Association of Law Teachers, to be held at Morrison Hall, Atkin Building, Inns of Court School of Law, Grays Inn, London WC1, at 6pm.

Annual Lord Upjohn Lecture.

Speaker: Lord Reed.

Admission free.

Contact Brian Pillans, tel: 0141 331 3424.

The changing role of the expert witness9 January: Lectureorganised by the Medico-Legal Society, to be held at the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1, from 8.15pm to 9.30pm.

1.25 CPD hours.

To join the Society or attend as a guest, contact Jill Crombie, tel: 020 7839 0278.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Lawyers carol service10 December: Christmas carolsorganised by the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, to be held at the Temple Church, London EC4, from 6.30pm.

The service will be followed by mince pies and mulled wine.

Contact John Lloyd, tel: 07947 069980.

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: diary@lawsociety.org.ukInclude telephone number, venue, cost and any CPD accreditation