Spring 2021 Criminal Law Update
Available to watch from May 1st 2021
With up-to-the-minute case law, magistrates, youth and crown court updates, sentencing updates, and a full spectrum of must-know CPD, the Law Friends Society training plan is simple to follow with new law, strategy, tips and procedures, summaries, toolkits, and a downloadable training record for compliance.
Get to know our speakers and their clerks from Great James Street Chambers, 33 Bedford Row, 2 Harcourt Building, 25 Bedford Row, Hodge Jones and Allen, MB Defence, and Robert Lizar Solicitors. They will be happy to speak to you about your caseload, and full information and all seminar notes will be provided.
We are very fortunate to welcome the leading solicitor in the subject field–Mike Schwarz from Hodge Jones and Allen Solicitors–who will speak on Protest Law. And from the same stable, Caroline Liggins once again will present on relevant matters in the Youth Courts. Nasir Hafezi, a leading light from Manchester, will lift the curtain on Undercover Police, and the highly experienced team at MB Defence will send George Dugbo to guide competent police station reps to the next level and beyond.
Our brilliant brothers and sisters in the barrister camp have also stepped up, with Colin Wells of 25 Bedford Row Chambers hosting a much-requested session on Billing, while James Dawes QC of 2 Harcourt Building will shine the trophy for fraud lawyers alongside the outstanding 33 Bedford Row. Great James Street top the bill again due to their outstanding proactive work with our monthly video bulletin and CPD training plan.
For us, the relationship with the clerks in chambers as well as the speakers themselves is the holistic key to oiling the wheels on this formula 1 machine and delivering the best in any criminal case, so full contact details will be provided with each seminar.
This package is one of the best we have ever presented and our topics and speakers are once again second to none
What's available on the crime update package
Topic | Speaker | Chambers | |
|---|---|---|---|
PACE, Magistrates and Crown Court Update | Stefan Bisson | Great James Street |  |
Criminal Case Law Update | Ayesha Smart | 33 Bedford Row |  |
Sentencing Update | Anthony Hook | Great James Street |  |
Legal Aid Billing and Costs Appeals | Colin Wells | 25 Bedford Row |  |
Sexual Offences -Challenging Historic Sex Offences Effectively | Ravinder Saimbhi | 33 Bedford Row |  |
Coronavirus: How Not to Make Laws During a Pandemic | Nasir Hafezi | Robert Lizar Solicitors |  |
Extradition Update and Practical Tips | Karen Todner | Karen Todner.com |  |
Protest and the Criminalisation of Communities | Stephen Knight | One Pump Court |  |
Announcing our whole-firm, all-year unlimited access for all staff in all subjects training package for an unrivalled £250 per year.
Including
Criminal Defence, Custody Suite, Police Arrest, Protest, Civil Litigation, Human Rights, Housing, Immigration, Family, Financial Crime and Fraud
Get your entire firm covered for 12 months with one policy and one payment for all our 2021 video seminar essential update training sessions for just £250 and we will include our October releases and all five years of previous essential updates in all seven subject areas. That‘s 300 seminars from 40 participating groups and more than 200 of the best speakers in the country. Unlimited access and all notes. Any time, any device.
Includes full individual training plans and individual training records
Our CPD training seminars are suitable for every lawyer in your firm at every level of their career, from paralegal to senior partner, in nearly every practice area
You can register as many of your lawyers as you like, from all of your departments, for one fixed price to cover your firm for the whole 12-month term – and this deal covers up-to-the-minute law updates in:
Crime
Custody Suite and Police Station
Civil Litigation
Human Rights
Immigration
Family
Financial Crime and Fraud
Social Housing
Law Friends are absolutely delighted to present our leading speakers and topics from the most engaged barristers’ chambers and solicitors’ firms in the country. We are releasing 42 new seminars in May and 42 new seminars in October for you to browse and choose from. All previous seminars are included and for the first time can now be viewed front of house. And in another innovation, Law Friends now provide monthly update bulletins emailed straight to your mobile phone, laptop or office desktop!
Here’s what’s included
- New website showing all seminars , speakers, summaries and contacts front of house.
- Professionally produced CPD training sessions presented by the very best in the business
- May release of seven practice areas, featuring 42 specialist CPD seminars in all subjects
- October release of seven practice areas, featuring 42 specialist CPD seminars in all subjects
- Covering criminal defence, custody suite, civil litigation, human rights, housing, immigration, family law, financial crime and fraud.
- Monthly update video bulletins by leading lawyers at the top of their game
- Full preview notes and contact sheets
- Full accompanying notes for each seminar
- Direct contact with the speakers for remote Q&A
- Professional filming, audio, editing, and access systems
- Full training plan and training record for compliance records
- One payment for your whole firm
- Suitable for all lawyers on all career paths of all grades
- Unlimited access to five years of 300 training seminars
- Any time unlimited access on any device
- Your own inhouse group training sessions and team discussions
- Fully vetted and approved police station ID cards £30
- Professional status ID cards £30
- Court access ID cards coming soon
Law Friends is about the people
Law Friends is all about the people, and the people we serve. We serve humanity with integrity, and it’s our 10-year anniversary celebration this year. We are multi-faith, multi-race, and multi-discipline with a modern, global and holistic view .We represent the social welfare and humanitarian law sectors, and provide a platform for 40 participating groups who chime with our ethics and high standards. We take the best people in the business and structure training seminars by practitioners who lead the way in their practice area. We are an accolade to the friendships made along the way. We are friends in law, a national network, we are Law Friends and we would like to welcome you and your colleagues to this year’s high-calibre CPD and our 2021 collection*
*Our new website now allows you to view all our past five years of training seminars in the front of house area by clicking the subjects relevant to you.
£20,000 donated over 10 years!
Over the past decade of events and training we have donated £20,000 to legal and charitable causes while providing the very best CPD available in the country. Please take a look at our website to see our commitment to social welfare law, our ethics, and providing easy access to high quality training with non-hierarchical, no-fuss brilliance along the way.
Spring drinks
We are hoping to have a drinks gathering at some point this spring when everyone will be welcome, government guidance permitting.