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 evening lectures (the Old Bailey lectures) symposiums and all-day Saturday events. The Committee is committed to a programme that offers practitioners with the means of earning free or inexpensive CPD hours.
The Kalisher Lecture
1 CPD Hours
Monday 17 January 2022
'Presumed guilty? Judge Jeffreys, fair trial, and the Bloody Assizes'
POSTPONED - A Symposium on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021
2 CPD Hours
Thursday 16 December 2021
FAIR PROSECUTION, FEARLESS DEFENCE 2.0: still possible in 2021?
Practitioners’ roundtable via Teams - VAWG
Monday 06 December 2021
How racially minoritised women and migrant women are criminalised due to their experience of domestic abuse and other forms of VAWG
Joint CBA Event: BSB Strategy
Tuesday 30 November 2021
This is your chance to say whether you agree with these goals and importantly what is the best way to make sure that those goals can be brought to fruition.
The Winter Conference 2021
6 CPD Hours
Saturday 27 November 2021
'Serious Sexual Offences’
Wellbeing Event
Monday 22 November 2021
A look at how we can encourage kindness in our workplaces
Custody Time Limits – A CPS Perspective
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 17 November 2021
A useful introduction to the role of the advocate in CTL management
Wellbeing: Resilience, Retention & Rising
Thursday 30 September 2021
How past/ pandemic experiences can support talent retention and galvanise leadership opportunities at the Bar.
CBA Lecture: Disclosure
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 21 July 2021
The disclosure of unused material in criminal cases remains a crucial part of a fair trial and is essential to avoiding miscarriages of justice, this talk will examine recent revisions to the guidelines.