Diary - 6 May to 11 July

CONFERENCES AND COURSES

Equity release6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22 May: Courseorganised by Legal Marketing Services, to be held on 6 May at the Royal Armouries, the Waterfront, Leeds; on 8 May at Armada House, Telephone Avenue, Bristol; on 13 May at the Lansdowne Hotel, King Edward's Parade, Eastbourne; on 15 May at the Renaissance Hotel, 651 Warwick Road, Solihull; on 20 May at Gorse Hill Executive Centre, Hook Heath Road, Woking, Surrey; and on 22 May at Partnership for Learning, Speke Boulevard, Speke, Liverpool.

Each course runs from 9am to 5pm, costs 349 plus VAT (discounts available) and carries 6 CPD hours.

Contact Clair Fordy-Clark, tel: 01244 651600.

Local authority annual legal update; Fire service prosecutions; Anti-competitive behaviour; Freedom of information and the police post-publication scheme8, 15, 16, 20 May: Coursesorganised by the Law Society's Local Government Group.

Local authority update will be held on 8 May at Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, Kensington, London W8; Fire service prosecutions will be held on 15 May, and Anti-competitive behaviour will be held on 16 May, both at ETC Venues, Avonmouth House, 6 Avonmouth Street, London SE1; Freedom of information will be held on 20 May at Local Government House, Smith Square, London SW1.

Local authority update runs from 10am to 4.30pm, costs 195 plus VAT and carries 5 CPD hours; the others run from 10am to 4pm, cost 149 plus VAT each and carry 4.5 CPD hours each.

Contact Lucy Fox, tel: 01483 275577.

LMS/Lexcel Quality Forum 200320 May: Conference and exhibitionorganised by the Law Society's law management section and Lexcel office, and sponsored by Barclays and AFP Consulting, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Peter Street, Manchester, from 9am to 5.30pm.

Presentations on quality and risk management.

Cost: 120 to 295 plus VAT (discounts available) 5.5 CPD hours.

Contact Paul Seymour, tel: 020 7316 5572.

LMS Legal IT Forum 20035 June: Conference and exhibitionorganised by the Law Society's law management section and sponsored by Legal Technology Insider, to be held at the Hilton Metropole Hotel, NEC, Birmingham, from 9am to 5.30pm.

Presentations include e-conveyancing, e-commerce, risk management, digital dictation, IT funding, and case management.

Cost: 120 to 295 plus VAT (discounts available) 5 CPD hours.

Contact Paul Seymour, tel: 020 7316 5572.

Effective contract drafting; Effective commercial contracts10, 12, 24, 26 June: Coursesorganised by the Law Society's Commerce & Industry Group.

Effective contract drafting will be held on 10 and 26 June at Nabarro Nathanson, Lacon House, Theobald's Road, London WC1, and on 12 June at 1 South Quay, Victoria Quays, Sheffield.

Commercial contracts will be held on 24 June at Lacon House.

Cost: 282 for one event or 564 for both.

Each course runs from 10am to 5pm and carries 5 CPD hours.

Contact Paul Golding, tel: 020 7524 6711.

The Employment Act 2002; Disciplinary/grievance procedures and policies10 June: Coursesorganised by NFU Services, to be held at Agriculture House, North Gate, Uppingham, Oakham, Leicestershire.

Employment Act will be held from 9.15am to 12.30pm and Disciplinary procedures from 1.15pm to 4.30pm.

Each course costs 99 plus VAT and carries 3 CPD hours.

Contact the conference team, tel: 08708 400638.

Estate planning 2003: current issues19 June, 3 July, 9 July: Courseorganised by Matthew Hutton, to be held on 19 June at the Bedford Lodge Hotel, Bury Road, Newmarket, Suffolk; on 3 July at Burleigh Court, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire; and on 9 July at the Law Society's Hall, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2.

Cost: 250 plus VAT (discounts available).

6 CPD hours.

Contact Matthew Hutton, tel: 01508 528388.

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

Oxalic acid, applicable law and the Rome Convention; The doctrine of penalties and the 'absurd paradox'; Important issues in construction insurance6, 13 May: Lecturesorganised by the Society of Construction Law.

Hudson prize-winners Philip Britton (Oxalic acid) and Hamish Lal (Doctrine of penalties) will present their papers on 6 May at the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1, at 6.15pm; Construction insuranance will be held on 13 May at the Brunswick Lecture Theatre, Leeds Metropolitan University, City Campus, Calverley Street, Leeds, at 6pm.

Free.

1 CPD hour per meeting.

Contact Jackie Morris, tel: 01235 770606.

Personal injury update14 May: Lectureorganised by Middlesex Law Society, to be held at Thames Valley University, St Mary's Road, Ealing W5, from 6pm to 8pm.

Cost: 35 to 50.

2 CPD hours.

Contact Peter Hesom, tel: 020 8567 5015.

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Bridge club12 May, 9 June: Meetingsorganised by the Law Society Duplicate Bridge Club, to be held at The East India Club, 16 St James's Square, London SW1, from 7.30pm.

Cost: 9.

Contact Nicholas Lakeland, tel: 020 7749 2700.

Summer ball 200311 July: Eventorganised by Young Surrey Lawyers, to be held at the Holiday Inn, Egerton Road, Guildford, at 7pm for 8pm.

Tickets 40, including meal.

Contact Nadine Emsley, tel: 01737 234627.

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