Criminal Justice Centre - Events and Activities

2012 Events

11 May 2010
Professor David Ormerod's Inaugural Lecture "Call my accuser before my face and I have done." Absent and anonymous witnesses in the criminal trial.
25 January 2010
The Criminal Justice Centre conference - Hate speech bans: critical perspectives
In recent years criminal law on 'hate speech' in England & Wales has undergone significant changes: new legislation on incitement to religious hatred and, most recently, homophobic hatred has been adopted. This conference seeks to discuss those new developments. The event is chaired by Professor Peter Alldridge.
Speakers include: Professor Eric Heinze (Professor of Law and Humanities, Queen Mary), Maleiha Malik (Reader in Law, King’s College), Perry Keller (Senior Lecturer in Law, King’s College), and Marloes van Noorloos (PhD candidate, Utrecht University). For more information download the CJC hate speech flyer [PDF 12kb]

6 November 2009
Queen Mary Centre for Criminal Justice and Centre for Law and Medical Ethics present a half-day conference: Purdy and the DPP’s guidelines
7 October 2009
The Criminal Justice Centre: Symposium on Neoliberal Penality
LOÏC WACQUANT (University of California-Berkeley & Centre de sociologie européenne-Paris) will be discussing his latest books, 'Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity' and 'Prisons of Poverty' with STANLEY COHEN (London School of Economics and Political Science) LORAINE GELSTHORPE (University of Cambridge) MARTIN JONES (University of Wales, Aberystwyth) NICOLA LACEY (London School of Economics and Political Science) DAVID NELKEN (Universities of Cardiff and Macerata) TIM NEWBURN (London School of Economics and Political Science) and RICHARD SPARKS (University of Edinburgh)

1 May 2008
The Criminal Justice Centre's Inaugural Conference “For Safety’s Sake” examined recent practices and trends in the Court of Appeal’s practices. It coincided with the 100th Anniversary of the first Court of Appeal hearing. All aspects of the approach were examined by the distinguished speakers: Patrick O’Connor, Professor Peter Duff, Professors David Schiff and Richard Nobles, Professor Graham Zellick and Lord Justice Hughes.