Diary
CONFERENCES AND COURSESMental health and housing;Homelessness and allocations law; Welfare benefits: introductory2, 3 May: Coursesorganised by Shelter.
Mental health is on 2 May and will be held at York CVS, Priory Street Centre, Priory Street, York.
Cost: 79 to 140.
5 CDP hours.
Homelessness is on 2-3 May and will be held at Shelter Training, 168-172 Old Street, London EC1.
Cost: 213 to 297.
10 CPD hours.
Welfare benefits is on 2-3 May and will be held at Shelter Training, 168-172 Old Street, London EC1.
Cost: 199 to 277.
10 CPD hours.
Each course runs from 10am to 4.30pm.
Contact the training administrator, tel: 020 7490 6720.
To enhance your income, raise your profile 14 May: Courseorganised by the Law Society, to be held at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2, from 4pm to 7pm.
Cost: 105.75.
3 CPD hours.
Contact Mercy Cefaz, tel: 020 7316 5554.
Are you ready for the Freedom of Information Act?16 May: Courseorganised 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, from 10am to 4pm.
Cost: 135 plus VAT.
4.5 CPD hours.
Contact Martina Bobrzyk, tel: 01483 275577.
Community care: protecting rights in a culture of change23 May: Conferenceorganised by the Legal Action Group, to be held at Central Hall, Storey's Gate, Westminster, London SW1, from 10am to 4.40pm.
Cost: 125 to 199.
5 CPD hours.
Contact Lisa Butchers, tel: 020 7833 7434.
Human rights in practice - update training 24 May: Course organised by Liberty and the Public Law Project, to be held at Avonmouth House, Avonmouth Street, London SE1, from 10am to 4pm.
Cost: 60 to 120.
4 CPD hours.
Contact Zoe Gillard, tel: 020 7378 3667.
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 SEMINARSMoney 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.
Immigration law update8 May: Lectureorganised by Central and South Middlesex Law Society, to be held at Thames Valley University, St Mary's Road, Ealing, London W5, from 6pm to 8pm.
Cost: 20 to 30.
2 CPD hours.
Contact Trish McCready, tel: 020 8992 6643.
Implications of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 20019 May: Lecture and discussionorganised by Cavendish Publishing, to be held at the Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker Street, London WC1.
The lecture begins at 6.30pm and costs 5.
Contact Beverley Brown, tel: 020 7278 8000.
Doing good, doing well - corporate social responsibility in the 21st century28 May: Lectureorganised by the London Young Solicitors Group to be held at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2, from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.
Cost: members free, non-members 7.
1.5 hours CPD.
Contact Jane Swan, tel: 020 7374 8000.
The Modern Law Review's annual Chorley Lecture29 May: Lectureorganised by the Modern Law Review, to be held at the Shaw Library, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2, from 5.30pm.
Free.
Contact Teresa Edwards, tel: on 020 7955 7687.
MEETINGS AND EVENTSAnnual ball11 May: Eventorganised by the Trainee Solicitors Group for Suffolk and North Essex, to be held at the Galleria restaurant, Ipswich Town Football Club, Portman Road, Ipswich, from 6pm.
Cost: 30.
Contact Amanda Timcke, tel: 01473 298303.
Mexican fiesta17 May: dinnerorganised by Berks Bucks & Oxon Young Solicitors Group, to be held at Renaissance Reading Hotel, Oxford Road, Reading, from 7.30pm to 2am.
Dress: black tie.
Cost: 35.
Contact Jennifer Abbott, tel: 0118 925 2106.
May ball18 May: Eventorganised by the Society of Asian Lawyers, to be held at Britannia International Hotel, 163 Marsh Wall, London E14, from 7pm to 1am Cost: 65 (members), 70 (non members).
Contact Kam Mehta, tel: 07931 736 880.
Lawyers' music concert25 May: Concertorganised by Lawyers' Music Choir and Symphony Orchestra, to be held at St Paul's Church, Wilton Place, London SW1, from 7.30pm.
Tenor and bass singers welcome.
Bartok Concerto for orchestra and Beethoven's Mass in C.
Admission: 7.50.
Contact Brenda Blankfield, tel: 020 8449 6162.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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