12 December to 26 February
CONFERENCES AND COURSES
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.
Employment discrimination law - practice and procedure9 January: Courseorganised by the Citizens Advice specialist support unit, to be held at the Courtyard Suite, Churchgate House, Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, from 10am to 4.30pm.5 CPD hours.
Cost: 100 to LSC contract holders.
Contact Jill Garton, tel: 01902 310568.
Mentoring, coaching, supervision and management; The quick solicitor13, 20 January: Coursesorganised by the Local Government Group, to be held at: Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London WC1.
Mentoring will be held on 13 January; Quick solicitor will be held on 20 January.
Each course costs 169 plus VAT, carries 5.5 CPD hours, and runs from 10am to 5pm.
Contact Lucy Fox, tel: 01483 275577.
Community safety23 January: Conferenceorganised by the Local Government Group, to be held at ETC Venues, Avonmouth House, 6 Avonmouth Street, London SE1, from 10am to 4pm.
Cost: 165 plus VAT.
4.5 CPD hours.
Contact Lucy Fox, tel: 01483 275577.
LECTURE AND SEMINARS
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 Farah Khan, tel: 07970 812 307.
Internment: the truth behind the war on terror15 December: Lectureorganised by Liberty, to be held in the New Theatre, East Wing, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2, from 6pm to 7.30pm.
Free admission.
Contact Zoe Gillard, tel: 020 7378 3667.
Can international human rights standards be delivered in the occupied Palestinian territories?16 December: Lectureorganised by the Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, to be held at Doughty Street Chambers, 10-11 Doughty Street, London WC1, from 6.30pm to 8pm.
Talk by Raji Sourani, director of the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, chaired by Daniel Machover of Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights.
Free admission.
Contact Sareta Ashraph, tel: 020 7404 1313, or e-mail: s.ashraph@doughtystreet.co.uk before 4pm on 16 December.
To see the mind is reflection in the face 8 January: 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: Lectureorganised by the Institute of European Law, to be held in the Vaughan Jeffries Lecture Theatre, Education Building, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, from 12 noon to 1pm.
Admission free.
Contact Nadene Bryan, tel: 0121 414 6334
Strategic planning for the business-orientated firm26 February: Seminarorganised by the Nottinghamshire Law Society, to be held at 50 Carrington Street, Nottingham, from 1.30pm to 4.45pm.
3 CPD hours.
Cost: 75 to 100.
Contact Mike Lewis, tel: 0115 9505324.
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
Christmas drinks15 December: Eventorganised by the Black Solicitors Network, to be held at Market Bar,2 Crutched Friars, London EC3, from 6.30pm.
Contact Zainab Kemsley, tel: 020 7316 5773.
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, to be held at David Keltie Associates,2 Fleet Place, London EC4, from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.
An evening with leading Welsh language poet Emyr Lewis.
Admission free.
Contact Lucinda Vinnicombe, tel: 020 7939 9139.
Christmas drinks party17 December: Eventorganised by the Cambridge Young Solicitors and Professional Group, to be held at The Basement, The Cow, Corn Exchange Street, Cambridge, from 7.30pm to midnight.
Free admission.
Contact Victoria Moran, tel: 01223 225139.
Law Society's Art Group's 44th annual art exhibition12 to 23 January: Eventorganised by the Law Society's Art Group, to be held in the Reading Room at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2, from 9am to 5.30pm.
A private viewing of the exhibition will be held on 16 January from 6pm to 8pm.
Professor Paul Coldwell, head of printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, will judge this year's exhibition entries and will announce the winners on 16 January.
Free admission.
Contact Hazel Bate, tel: 020 8946 5094.
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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