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Forthcoming seminars

Click on the links below to view full details of forthcoming seminars and courses.

Please note that members of chambers also offer in-house seminars to individual firms / organisations which are tailored to your specific needs. For more details, including some examples of recent seminars, please contact Paula Morris or Chris Knowles.

Housing seminar - Unlawful Eviction: Injunctions, Committal Applications and Damages

Date: 14th September 2010 (half day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce our Housing Law seminar programme for Spring/ Summer 2010. Aimed at housing practitioners of all levels, these seminars will update delegates on the latest housing law developments.


Prison Law Course 2010 (5 day course)

Date: TBC
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North will be holding the next 5 day prison law course in early summer 2010. Due to the limited delegate numbers that we can accommodate for this course we would like to welcome delegates to register their interest prior to the invitation being released. Please register early interest before 1st April 2010.


Housing seminar - Disrepair and related Personal Injury claims

Date: 13th July 2010 (half day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce our Housing Law seminar programme for Spring/ Summer 2010. Aimed at housing practitioners of all levels, these seminars will update delegates on the latest housing law developments.


JR North: Trends and Forecasts 2010

Date: 24th June 2010 (full day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North are pleased to sponsor the Public Law Project conference again this year.


Prison Law - Advanced Level Course (Manchester)

Date: 17th June 2010 (full day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce a one-day advanced level seminar on the latest developments in prison law.


Housing seminar - Bankruptcy, financial problems and housing

Date: 20th May 2010 (full day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce our Housing Law seminar programme for Spring/ Summer 2010. Aimed at housing practitioners of all levels, these seminars will update delegates on the latest housing law developments.


Immigration Update Seminar

Date: 13th May 2010 (full day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce an immigration law seminar to take place in Manchester. Aimed at immigration practitioners at all levels of experience, this seminar will update delegates on the latest developments in immigration and asylum law.


Housing seminar - Recent issues in homelessness and allocations

Date: 28th April 2010 (half day)
Location: Manchester

Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce our Housing Law seminar programme for Spring/ Summer 2010. Aimed at housing practitioners of all levels, these seminars will update delegates on the latest housing law developments.


Prison Law; Breaking News… (full day)

Date: 22 April 2010 (full day)
Location: Manchester

In conjunction with the Association of Prison Lawyers (APL) Garden Court North Chambers are pleased to announce a full day update seminar covering the latest developments in prison law which will take place in Manchester on 22nd April 2010.


Family Law Update (Sheffield Law Society Event)

Date: 20th April
Location: Law Society Hall, Sheffield

GCN's Bryony Poynor will be presenting a family law update to Sheffield Law Society on 20th April.


How I became an asylum seeker (A Gap Unit Rise and Shine Project Event)

Date: 24th March
Location: Zion Arts Centre, Hulme, Manchester

Gap unit arise and shine project invite participates to their forthcoming play and workshop. This event will be of interest to individuals whose work brings them into contact with asylum seekers and refugees.


Mental Capacity, Civil Litigation and the Court of Protection

Date: 23rd March 2010 (full day)
Location: Manchester

This seminar will look at a range of practical issues and recent developments in relation to litigation involving persons lacking capacity and will be of benefit to practictioners working in the areas of housing, community care, immigration and prison law.


US Death Penalty Training (Reprieve/ Amicus event)

Date: 26th - 28th February and 20th - 21st March
Location: London

GCN's Mark George Q.C. will be speaking at the US death penalty training session organised jointly by Amicus and Reprieve on Saturday 27th February 2010 in London.




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March 2010 Prison law update

11/3/10 GCN and APL announce one day prison seminar (22/04)

9/3/10 Dr Tor Pettit confirmed to speak at GCN's Mental Capacity seminar (23/03)

March 2010 Housing Bulletin

4/3/10 Bryony Poynor presenting Family Law Update for Sheffield Law Society (20/04)

26/2/10 Four housing seminars announced for spring/ summer 2010

25/2/10 One day immigration update announced (13/5/10)

25/2/10 Pete Weatherby on assisted suicide

HOUSING LAW TENANTS

16/2/10 Bryony Poynor to run London Marathon

12/2/10 Brigid Baillie joins chambers

12/2/10 IPP sentence quashed

10/2/10 GCN write to MoJ and LSC in response to proposed government cuts to criminal legal aid

4/2/10 Mark George to speak at US death penalty event

January 2010 Criminal law update

18/01/10 Camille Warren joins chambers

18/01/10 Prison law - Challenging NOMS and UK Board Agency agreement on segregation of foreign nationals

16/12/09 Third party support and/or joint sponsorship permissible for entry clearance applications under Rules 281, 297 & 317

16/12/09 Sonny Lodge public inquiry - final report released

15/12/09 Appeal against 2004 convictions allowed - referral by Criminal Cases Review Commission

11/12/09 Manchester City Council –v- Pinnock - Permission to appeal granted

3/12/09 Prison law - 'Challenging Deportation'

30/11/09 Prison JR: SSJ acted unlawfully in IPP transfer

17/11/09 Chambers & Partners 2010 recommendations

12/11/09 Mark George QC on Judge's decision in child rape case

6/11/09 James Stark to speak at HLPA event on 15/12

30/10/09 Three new members join GCN

9/10/09 Sarah Daley 'the issues of best value tendering in criminal legal aid'

2/10/09 ‘Letter from America’ Kate Stone’s Pegasus scholarship

1/10/09 UK Supreme Court Opens

28/9/09 Legal 500 ratings

23/9/09 Pete Weatherby on assisted suicide guidelines

14/9/09 Appeal against sentencing affecting HDC upheld

11/9/09 Prison JR on reasons for Cat A ERC decisions

9/9/09 Michael Shields released; first ever British pardon of someone convicted abroad (+ media coverage links)

4/9/09 James Stark on "homeless at home"

19/8/09 Prison JR challenges Cat A review decision

16/8/09 Pete Weatherby on "Right to review reviewed"

7/8/09 Latest equal pay case

31/7/09 James Stark on "Reasonable Occupational Continuation"

23/7/09 Sex offenders register without mechanism for review is "incompatible" with HRA 1998

22/7/09 Unlawful killing verdict for aid worker killed in India

17/7/09 House of Lords to consider "third party support"

17/7/09 Prison JR quashes re-categorisation and HDC decision

16/7/09 Who is "Lawyer of the week" and which GCN barrister gets a mention?