4 December to 12 February
CONFERENCES AND COURSES
The current state of environmental impact assessment in law and custom8 December: Conferenceorganised by the Centre for Law and the Environment at University College London, to be held at the Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1, from 10am to 5pm.
Cost: 60 to 150.
5 CPD hours.
Contact Lisa Penfold, tel: 020 7679 1514.
Practitioners' workshop12 December: Courseorganised by the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, to be held at Stewarts, 63 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2, from 9am to 5pm.
Cost: 390.
6 CPD hours.
Contact Amanda Hill, tel: 01923 286 888.
Community care law - advanced; Carers and their rights under the Carers Act 1995 and the Carers and Disabled Children Act 200016, 17 December: Coursesorganised by the Carers Training Unit, to be held at Carers UK, 20-25 Glasshouse Yard, London EC1.
Community care law on 16 December, and Carers and their rights on 17 December.
Courses run from 10am to 4.30pm and cost 110 to 180.
Community care law carries 4.5 CPD hours; Carers and their rights carries 5 CPD hours.
Contact Chris Hockley, tel: 020 7566 7632.
Judicial review - advanced practice and procedure18 December: Courseorganised by the Legal Action Group, to be held at ETC Venues, Avonmouth House, 6 Avonmouth Street, London SE1, from 9.30am to 5.15pm.
Cost: 259 plus VAT.
6 CPD hours.
Contact Kate Silverman, tel: 020 7833 7429.
LECTURES AND SEMINARS
Analysis of banknotes for drugs: statistically beyond reasonable doubt?10 December: Seminarorganised by the Young Fraud Lawyers Association, to be held at Hardwicke Building, Lincolns Inn, London WC2A, from 6.30pm to 8pm.
Charles Bott of 25 Bedford Row will be speaking on a range of issues.
1 CPD hour.
Free to members (30 to non-members).
Contact David McCluskey, tel: 02076297991.
Chapter VI of the Russian civil code (international private law)10 December: Lectureorganised by the Anglo-Russian Law Association, to be held at the City of London Club, 19 Old Broad Street, London EC2, from 6pm to 9.30pm, followed by a drinks reception.
Members free, non-members 5.
Contact Fred Bain, tel: 020 86872511.
The rule of reason under article 81 in the light of Metropole and modernisation11 December: Lectureorganised by the Law Society's European Group, to be held at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2, from 6.15pm to 715pm.
Speaker: Thomas Sharpe QC.
Cost: up to 35.
1 CPD hour.
Contact Jo Rae, tel: 01905 724734.
A harmonised approach to the regulation of drug use in sport - the world anti-doping code11 December: Lectureorganised by the Sports Law Centre at King's College, London and the British Association of Sport and the Law, to be held at Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Panel includes Richard Pound, chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Admission free.
Contact Jonathan Taylor, tel: 020 7655 0250.
Islamic wills14 December: Seminarorganised by the Association of Muslim Lawyers, to be held at the Rex Centre, Coventry Road, Small Heath, Birmingham, from 8.45am to 1.15pm.
Cost: 10 to 20.
3 CPD hours.
Contact Ifath Nawaz, tel: 07780 604 931 or after 4 December Farah Khan, tel: 07970 812 307.
To see the mind is reflection in the face 8 January 2004: Lecture and discussionorganised 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.
Speaker: John Elston, consultant ophthalmic surgeon, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.
1.25 CPD hours.
To join the Society or to attend one initial meeting as a guest, contact Eloise Aspinall, tel: 020 7484 7538.
Draft EU constitution12 February 2004: Lectureorganised by the Institute of European Law, to be held in the Vaughan Jeffries Lecture Theatre, Education Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, from noon to 1pm.
Free.
Contact Nadene Bryan, tel: 0121 414 6334.
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
Christmas drinks4, 5 December: Eventsorganised by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Young Solicitors Group, to be held on 4 December at Bar 38, The Riverside, Oracle, Reading, and the same evening at Freud, 119 Walton Street, Oxford, and on 5 December at the Hogshead, 1 Wharf Street, Newbury, all from 6pm onwards.
Admission free.
Contact Marni Lancaster, tel: 0118 951 6354.
Christmas social16 December: Eventorganised by the Freelance Solicitors Group, to be held at the Oxo Tower, Bargehouse Street, London SE1, from 6.30pm.
Contact Janice Purssey, tel: 07814 133262.
An evening with Emyr Lewis16 December: Poetry eveningorganised by Poet in the City, an evening with the leading Welsh language poet, will be held at David Keltie Associates, 2 Fleet Place, London EC4, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
Admission free.
Contact Lucinda Vinnicombe, tel: 020 7939 9139.
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
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