Past events
The Education and Training Committee seeks to provide a programme of continuing education and training to the Criminal Bar by way of a series of online evening lectures and symposiums, together with our in-person Saturday Conferences for Spring and Winter. The Committee is committed to a programme that offers practitioners with the means of earning free or inexpensive CPD hours.
CBA Young Bar Day
4 CPD Hours
Saturday 11 October 2025
An event for junior criminal barristers up to 7 years call
CBA Lecture: 'Applicants’ experience of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).'
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 08 October 2025
'Applicants’ experience of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).'
CBA Lecture: Transparency & Open Justice Board: What it means for the criminal jurisdiction
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Delivered by the chair of the Lady Chief Justice’s Transparency & Open Justice Board.
The Spring Conference 2025
6 CPD Hours
Saturday 03 May 2025
Our Topic this Spring is 'Criminal Appeals'
CBA Lecture: When Bad Character Bites
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 02 April 2025
Being able to identify when evidence meets the statutory definition of bad character (ss.98, 112 Criminal Justice Act 2003)
CBA Lecture: Habeas Corpus
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 26 March 2025
This lecture will focus on the topic of habeas corpus after a series of recent examples of prisons failing to release defendants despite court orders to do so.
CBA Lecture: Can we really rely on electronic evidence?
1 CPD Hours
Thursday 20 March 2025
Actual examples (such as the Post Office Horizon scandal and NHS cases) will be used to illustrate these issues.
CBA Lecture: Understanding and developing your practice at the Criminal Bar
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 12 March 2025
This webinar is open to all members of the Criminal Bar Association (all calls) and clerks and practice managers