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: Youth Court Training
1 CPD Hours
Monday 14 March 2022
Introduction to the Youth Court for the Junior Bar.
Trial & Error Shows: Old Bailey 2022
CPD Hours
Monday 14 March 2022
The 2022 Fundraising Shows
400 years of Newgate and the Old Bailey
The Kalisher Lecture
1 CPD Hours
Monday 17 January 2022
'Presumed guilty? Judge Jeffreys, fair trial, and the Bloody Assizes'
BACFI Event: Exploring Solutions to the Pupillage Problems
Wednesday 12 January 2022
in conjunction with Clerksroom and Beyond Compliance
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
Bar Council Event - Disability
Wednesday 01 December 2021
Join experts on disability good practice at an interactive discussion on reasonable adjustments in a chambers context (for applicants, pupils, practising barristers and their staff), and find out what support is available.
The Bar Council’s 19th Annual Law Reform Lecture
Tuesday 30 November 2021
This year's Law Reform Lecture will tackle the subject of environmental law, the Climate Change Act