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.
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
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.
Christmas Carols at Wood Green.
Thursday 15 December 2022
Christmas Time at Wood Green Crown Court
CBA Lecture: The Oversimplicity of Intention
1 CPD Hours
Wednesday 26 October 2022
The first in a series of online lectures by members of the CB's new Academic Sub-Committee
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.