THE CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW CONFERENCE 2010

8.45

REGISTRATION WITH COFFEE

9.15

CHAIR’S WELCOME

Professor Ian Dennis MA, PhD, University College London; Editor Criminal Law Review

9.30

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM (London only)

Lord Justice Leveson, Chairman, Sentencing Guidelines Council

9.45

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

• Changes in Al Khawaja
• Article 5 and 8: police powers, stop-and-search and detention
• Article 8: deportation and extradition
• Article 6: right to confront witnesses and hearsay evidence

Professor Andrew Ashworth QC, DCL, FBA, CBE, University of Oxford

10.30

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EVIDENCE

• Horncastle and the 'crafted code' approach to hearsay
• Competence, intermediaries and vulnerable witnesses (including defendants)
• s.35 CJPOA 1994 - the price of silence

Professor Diane Birch, JC Smith Professor of Law, University of Nottingham

11.15

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

11.30

MORNING COFFEE

11.45

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIMINAL LAW*

• The Bribery Act 2010
• Joint enterprise liability and weapons: Mendez (2010)
• Implementing the partial defences to murder
• The Crime and Security Act 2010
• Consent in sexual offences: Doyle (2010)

Professor David Ormerod, Queen Mary, University of London

12.45

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

13.00

LUNCH

14.00

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CRIMINAL PRACTICE*

• Post charge interviewing in the police station
• Defence Witness notices and other procedural change
• The future shape of criminal defence practice

Anthony Edwards, Senior Partner, TV Edwards

• Revised Code for Crown Prosecutors
• Core Quality Standards

Kingsley Hyland OBE, Crown Prosecution Service

15.30

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

15.40

AFTERNOON TEA

15.55

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SENTENCING

• Sentencing guidelines and the courts
• Early release and return to custody
• Latest cases

Dr David Thomas QC, LLD, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge

16.55

CHAIRMAN’S CONCLUSIONS

17.15

CLOSE OF CONFERENCE