Conversations with Distinguished Judges - Save The Dates!
Hello everyone - sharing the below on behalf of Tim Barnes, member of the Executive Committee of the Greenwich Society (with oversight of matters concerning events, planning, traffic and transport).
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A few years back the Greenwich Society and the University of Greenwich jointly organised some popular lectures on the Rule of Law given by some distinguished speakers. We have decided to re-instate this type of event in the New Year but the format will be different. Instead of a lecture, there will be a conversation with a quartet of Distinguished Judges. As I know all those who have agree to participate on a personal basis, I have decided that I will be the interlocutor. But there will be an opportunity for all those in the audience to ask questions at the end of the conversation and a chance to talk informally with the Judge at the end of the event.
The Conversations will take place in the
Stockwell Street Lecture Theatre on the last Wednesdays of January, February,
March and April at 7pm. Tickets will be available but free via Eventbrite from January 1st onwards (details will be
provided on the Greenwich Society website).
The Judges will be as follows:
January 29th Sir Howard Morrison.
Elected as the UK Judge at the International Criminal Court at the Hague
in 2011 and held the position for 10 years.
Previously Chief Magistrate in Fiji,
appointed QC, Attorney-General in
Anguilla with specific responsibility for enacting speedy anti-drugs
legislation and working for the Defence
in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
February 26th Lord Sumption.
Former Justice of the Supreme Court, and Reith Lecturer in 2019 on Law and the
Decline of Politics. He has expressed strong views about the legality and
political propriety of aspects of the Covid lockdown as well as giving informed
opinions on contemporary moral and political issues. At the same time he has earned
universal respect as an historian writing a 5 volume history of the Hundred
Years War.
March 26th Mr Justice Sweeting. Derek as a Silk focused on contentious civil litigation and
advisory work in all the Senior Courts. He was regularly instructed by the
Attorney-General in particular in relation to claims arising out of the Iraq
War He is a Bencher of the Middle Temple and Chaired the Legal Service
Committee of the Bar Council before becoming Chairman of the Bar Council in
2021. When appointed to the High Court Bench in 2022 the Lord Chief Justice
welcomed him as the first High Court Judge to have completed the Marathon des
Sables
April 30th Speaker to be announced.
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