New Chairman
Lord Dyson,
Justice of the Supreme Court
elected as Chairman of the Society
Forthcoming Lecture
Monday 20 February 2012
Professor Richard Bellamy
The democratic legitimacy
of international human rights
conventions: parliament,
political constitutionalism
and the Hirst case
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Statute Law:
Making Legislation
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Forthcoming Events All events will take place at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR. There is no charge and tickets are not required. To register your interest in attending please contact the SLS Administrator Monday, 20 February 2012, 6-7 pm Professor Richard Bellamy, UCL: "The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rights Conventions: Parliament, Political Constitutionalism and the Hirst Case" Monday, 19 March 2012, 6 - 7 pm Philip Coppel QC: "The Data Protection Act 1998 and Personal Privacy" Monday, 21 May 2012, 6-7 pm Mr Justice Robert Sharpe (Judge of the Court of Appeal, Ontario): "The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Lord Sankey's "living tree" theory of interpretation" Monday, 18 June 2012, 6-7 pm Professor Elizabeth Cooke, Law Commissioner: "Why is law reform so difficult?" |
RECENT EVENTS AND LECTURES
23 January 2012
William Robinson
"How to make EU legislation more accessible"
28 November 2011
Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury MR
2011 Annual Lord Renton Lecture:
"General, equal and certain: law reform today and tomorrow"
9 May 2011
Richard Ekins, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland
"Yemshaw and the constitutionality of updating statutes"
31 January 2011
Paul Regan, Head of Resources, Olympic and Paralympic Security Directorate, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, Home Office
"Enacting legislation - a civil servant's perspective"
10 November 2010
ANNUAL LORD RENTON LECTURE
Mr Stephen Laws CB, First Parliamentary Counsel
"Giving effect to policy in legislation - how to avoid missing the point"
9 October 2010
2010 Conference
"Legislation and the Supreme Court"
Supreme Court, Parliament Square, London
7 June 2010
Neville March Hunnings
"Legislative Form and the European Union"
10 May 2010
The Hon. Mr Justice Sales
"Rights-consistent interpretation of statutes under section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998"
22 March 2010
David Dodd BL
"Adhering to traditional methods for modern reasons: statutory interpretation in Ireland"
1 February 2010
The Hon Justice Susan Crennan QC, High Court of Australia
"Statutes and the Contemporary Search for Meaning"
24 November 2009
ANNUAL LORD RENTON LECTURE
Lord Justice Elias
"The Rise of the Strasbourgeoisie: Judicial Activism and the ECHR"
8 June 2009
Murray Hunt, Legal Adviser to the Joint Committee on Human Rights
�Scrutinising legislation for human rights compatibility�
27 May 2009
Professor Jeremy Waldron, New York University Law School and 2008-09 Fowler-Hamilton visiting fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford
�Interpretation, Textualism and the Citation of Foreign Law�
11 May 2009
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
"How a lobbying group can affect legislation"
January 2009
Mr Justice Sales, formerly First Treasury Counsel, Common Law
"A comparison of the principle of legality and section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998"
25 November 2008
INAUGURAL ANNUAL LORD RENTON LECTURE *
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
"Interpreting Statutes Today"
**** To read a copy of the inaugural Statute Law Society lecture given by Lord Renton in 1995 and entitled
"The Evolution of Modern Statute Law and its Future" - click here
2008 Statute Law Society Conference, Belfast
"Presuming to Interpret - Basic Principles of Law in Statutory Interpretation"
Speakers: Sir Brian Kerr, Prof. Stefan Vogenauer, The Hon. Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan, The Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden DBE, Richard Ekin and Jan van Zyl Smith (DPhil Candidates), George Gray (First Legislative Counsel, N.I.), Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe, Mr Justice Sales, Professor Brice Dickson.
May 2008
Professor John Spencer QC
"Drafting of the Extradition Act"
25 February 2008
Lord Carlile of Berriew QC
"Terrorism: Statutes v Politics"
28 November 2007
ANNUAL LECTURE
Rabinder Singh QC
"Interpreting Bills of Rights"
1 October 2007
Professor Ross Charnock, University of Paris
"Prototypes and stereotypes: meaning and reference in the language of the law"
2 July 2007
Philip Bovey, Former Director, Company Law Project, DTI
"A damn close run thing: the Companies Act 2006"
14 May 2007
Dr Roderick Munday, University of Cambridge
"Explanation and Interpretation of Statutes: the Role of the Explanatory Notes"
26 February 2007
Peter Graham Harris
"The Making of the Children Act: a Private History"
7 December 2006
ANNUAL LECTURE
Lord Hope of Craighead
"Voices from the Past - the Law Lords' contribution to the legislative process"
2 November 2006
Justice Keith Mason, President of New South Wales Court of Appeal, Australia
"The intent of legislators: how judges discern it and what they do if they find it"
16 October 2006
Sir Edward Caldwell KCB QC
"Who did the Act? And how?
(A discussion of some aspects of the preparation of legislation, particularly in relation to constitutional legislation which cuts across existing structures and engages a number of government departments, with an occasional look back at the European Communities Act 1972 and other Acts)
7 June 2006
Professor Reinhard Zimmermann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
"Law Reform in Germany: Experience with the Recent Modernisation of the Law of Obligations"
8 May 2006
John McCluskie, CB, QC
"Recollections and Reflections of the former First Scottish Parliamentary Counsel"
6 March 2006
Professor Judith Freedman, University of Oxford
"Interpreting Tax Statutes: is successful tax avoidance a contradiction in terms?"
1 March 2006
"Post-Legislative Scrutiny"
A panel-led discussion organised jointly by the Law Commission and the Statute Law Society
Panel: Sir Edward Caldwell, Mr Justice Toulson, Lord Newton of Braintree, Paul Jenkins and Francesca Quint
20 February 2006
Javan Herberg and Phillip Coppel
"The Big Chill: Swimming on Hampstead Heath and the Spectre of Public Safety"
30 January 2006
Professor Vernon Bogdanor, University of Oxford and Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC, University of London
"The Constitution, the Parliament Acts and Jackson v Attorney-General"