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.
Jury Trial & Error Shows at The Old Bailey 2023
Sunday 12 March 2023
This spring’s Show is called ‘Jury Trial & Error’ and will be presented in four evening performances commencing 6:00pm on Monday through Thursday 13-16th March 2023. There is also a Full Dress Rehearsal performance on Sunday afternoon 4:30pm on 12th March 2023 (no reception).
CBA Lecture: The Use of Intermediaries for Young Defendants
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 08 March 2023
The forth seminar of 2023 from the CBA education committee addresses the use of intermediaries for young defendants
An Elizabethan Mystery
Tuesday 28 February 2023
Lecture at the Temple Church, 6.00 pm Tuesday, 28 February 2023, followed by drinks in the Round
Sheriffs' & Recorder's Fund: Special Presentation Screening of 'The Duke'
Tuesday 28 February 2023
The Film will be preceded by a drinks reception and followed by a live Q&A chaired by Dame Linda Dobbs DBE and featuring lead actor Jim Broadbent and scriptwriters Clive Coleman and Richard Bean.
CBA Lecture: Defence Fees
1 CPD Hours
Thursday 16 February 2023
The third seminar of 2023 from the CBA education committee addresses the ever important issue of How to Bill correctly for Defence Fees
Youth Justice Training for Lawyers
Saturday 04 February 2023
Delivered in-person by expert youth justice lawyers in collaboration with young people with experience of the criminal justice system, this training is an essential course for all lawyers who will be representing children in the youth court and the Crown Court
CBA Lecture: Disclosure in Serious Cases
1 CPD Hours
Tuesday 31 January 2023
The second seminar of 2023 from the CBA education committee addresses the ever important issue of disclosure concentrating on the thorniest of issues such as PII, other sensitive disclosure, cross jurisdictional disclosure and disclosure of electronic evidence.
CBA Lecture: Insanity / Fitness to Plead
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 25 January 2023
The talk will consider unfitness to plead, mental condition defences, disposals and sentencing, with a particular focus on the distinction between how fitness to plead is dealt with in the magistrates' court and in the Crown Court.
Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception, and Mistake.
Wednesday 18 January 2023
The Criminal Law Reform Now Network (CLRNN) to invite you to the launch of our latest report Reforming the Relationship between Sexual Consent, Deception, and Mistake.