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 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.
Assize Seminar in Cutting-Edge Criminal Law
2 CPD Hours
Friday 16 May 2025
Details of the commentators will be published soon.
Marshall Hall: A Law unto Himself
Thursday 15 May 2025
Sally Smith KC in Conversation with HHJ Nigel Lickley KC
HMCTS Event: PRE – new technology for pre-recorded evidence
Thursday 15 May 2025
PRE will soon be launched in every Crown Court in England and Wales and the High Court
The Spring Conference 2025
6 CPD Hours
Saturday 03 May 2025
Our Topic this Spring is 'Criminal Appeals'
JAC District Judge Recruitment 2025 - Pre-application seminar
Wednesday 23 April 2025
Up-to-date guidance on the JAC's selection process
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)
Youth Practitioners' Association conference: Youth Justice SOS 2025
CPD Hours
Tuesday 01 April 2025
At Hodge Jones and Allen’s offices
Tuesday 1st April at 6pm