Diary 9 August to 4 December

Conferences and coursesSecurity of tenure: advancedHuman rights and housing22 and 23 August: Coursesorganised by Shelter, to be held at Shelter Training, 168-172 Old Street, London, EC1, from 10am to 4.30pm.

5 hours CPD.

Security of tenure is on 22 August and costs 113-166.

Human rights and housing is on 23 August and costs 105-155.

Contact the training administrator, tel: 020 7490 6720.

The new housing benefits appeal system28 August: Courseorganised by Shelter, to be held at Shelter Training, 168-172 Old Street, London, EC1, from 10am to 4.30pm.

5 hours CPD.

Cost: 105-155.

Contact the training administrator, tel: 020 7490 6720.

Recovery of housing debt benefit4 September: Courseorganised by the Law Society's local government group, to be held at the Law Society's Hall, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2, from 10am to 4pm.

Cost: 125 plus VAT.

4.5 CPD hours.

Contact Martina Bobrzyk, tel: 01483 275577.

Highways - topical issues and case law update6 September: Conferenceorganised by the Law Society's local government group, to be held at London Zoo, Regent's Park, London NW1, from 10am to 4pm.

Cost: 145 plus VAT.

4.5 CPD hours.

Contact Martina Bobrzyk, tel: 01483 275577.

Good news about injustice7-9 September: Conferenceorganised by the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, to be held at Rutland Hall, University Campus, Nottingham, from 10am each day.

Keynote speaker: Gary Haugen, president of the International Justice Mission.

An academic day conference entitled Injustice caused by poverty will take place on 7 September (cost 10), followed on 8 and 9 September by the fellowship's annual conference (cost: 35 to 130).

Contact: David Mitchell, tel: 01275 472269.Welfare benefits for franchised lawyers: update21 September: Courseorganised by the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, to be held at the Britannia Hotel, New Street, Birmingham, from 1.45pm to 5.15pm.

3 CPD hours.

Cost: 90-170.

Contact Richard Miller, tel: 020 7336 8565.

Lectures and seminarsLegal aid contracts - guidance for the legal cashier5 and 27 September, 17 October, 28 November, 4 December: Seminarsorganised by the Institute of Legal Cashiers and Administrators and the Legal Aid Practitioners Group, to be held on 5 September at the Hilton hotel, Victoria Quays, Furnival Road, Sheffield; on 27 September at the Thistle hotel, Queen Street, Exeter; on 17 October at the Queen hotel, City Road, Chester; on 28 November at the Hanover International hotel, Schooner Way, Atlantic Wharf, Cardiff Bay; and on 4 December at the Jarvis Hotel, Ealing Common, London W5, from 9.30am to 4.30pm.

Cost: 120 to 190.

6 hours CPD.

Contact Linda Willis, tel: 020 8294 2887.

Immigration and housing11 September: Lectureorganised by North West Housing Law Practitioners, to be held at CUBE, 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester, from 5pm to 7pm.

Speakers: barristers Alex Durrance and Amanda Weston of Garden Court North.

Cost: 10.

2 CPD hours.

Contact John Kershaw, tel: 0161 445 2287.

Dispute avoidance and resolution11 September: Workshoporganised by the Society of Construction Law, to be held at ICE, 1 Great George Street, London, at 6.15pm.

Leader: John Burgess.

Admission free.

1 CPD hour.

Contact Jackie Morris, tel: 01235 770606.

Crimes against humanity - forgetting the victims25 September: Ernest Jones Lectureorganised by the the British Psycho-Analytical Society, to be held at the Royal College of Physicians, 11 St Andrews Place, London NW1, at 8.30pm.

Speaker: Judge Richard Goldstone, formerly chief prosecutor for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and co-chairman of the Independent International Commission on Kosovo.

Entry by ticket only.

Cost: 10 (5 students/unemployed).

For tickets, write to: Linda Carter-Jackson at the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, Byron House, 112A-114 Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ.

For details, tel: 020 7563 5016.

Stress management in legal firms3 October: Workshoporganised by the Institute of Legal Cashiers and Administrators, to be held at ILCA, 146-148 Eltham Hill, London SE9, from 9.30am to 4.30pm.

Cost: 130 to190.

6 hours CPD.

Contact Linda Willis, tel: 020 8294 2887.

Meetings and eventsLaw Society Cricket Club9 and 22 August: Cricket matchesversus Maidenhead & Bray, to be held on 9 August at Maidenhead & Bray Cricket Club, Hibbert Road, Bray, Berkshire; versus Tring Park, to be held on 22 August at Tring Park Cricket Club, London Road, Tring, Hertfordshire, both at 2pm.

Free.

Contact Richard O'Hagan, tel: 0118 951 6614.

Young Fraud Lawyers' Association7 September: AGM and dinnerorganised by the Young Fraud Lawyers' Association, to be held at Chermoula, at the Emporium, 62 Kingsley Street, London W1, at 7.30pm.

Dinner will follow at 8pm.

Cost: 30, including dinner and drinks up to 11.00pm, and free entry to the nightclub afterwards.

Tickets are available from Bettina Brown at Kingsley Napley, tel: 020 7814 1200.

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