Hamlyn Lecture - Improving Statutes, Wednesday 15th November 6-7pm

This year's Hamlyn Lecture will be taking place next week at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The timing will make it awkward for many Birkbeck students to attend but I thought that I'd flag it up as it looks like an interesting event.

Speaker: Professor Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, DCL, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple, Professor of the Law of England and a  Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford.

Chair: Elizabeth Gardiner, First Parliamentary Counsel

Lecture Description: How might we improve the quality of our statutes? In this lecture, and drawing on the experience of having been a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a number of different avenues are explored. These include the style of statutory drafting, the role of Parliamentary Counsel, pre and post-legislative scrutiny, and the work of the Law Commission in respect of consolidation and statute law repeals. 

This lecture is free but advance booking is required.  All welcome.

Further information and booking:  https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8559

Hamlyn Lecture Series archive made freely available

To mark the Hamlyn Trust's 60th anniversary, the series of lectures from 1949 - 2004 (originally published by Sweet & Maxwell) has been made freely available to individuals for the purpose of private study.
The annual lectures have been, and continue to be given by leading members of the legal profession, be they judges, legal practitioners or academics.

Past lectures have included:
* Lord Denning on Freedom under the Law
* Professor Glanville Williams on The Proof of Guilt
* Lord Scarman on English Law - the New Dimension
* P S Atiyah on Pragmatism and Theory in English Law
* Michael Zander QC on The State of Justice

Each lecture is presented as a PDF file, with the average length being 150 - 200 pages, and provide readers with food for thought on a range of key issues.

With thanks to Jonathan Thorpe, LLB Law for bringing this development to my attention.