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Index |
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Who should attend? |
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Topics to be covered |
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Date and times |
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Venue & maps |
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Speakers |
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Course accreditation |
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Documentation |
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Cost |
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Contact/ queries |
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Registration form |
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Who should attend? |
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This seminar is intended for all public children law practitioners. |
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Topics to be covered |
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The new Gatekeeping and Allocation Procedure |
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The President’s Practice Direction – getting your bundle in order |
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Preparing witnesses for court in care cases |
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Adoption and Children Act 2002 update – including special guardianship and placement orders |
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Date and times |
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7th February 2007 |
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6 p.m. Registration |
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6.30 p.m. Seminar commences |
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8.30 p.m. Drinks and buffet |
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Transport House, 128 Theobalds Road, London WCIX 8TN. |
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Transport House is centrally located in Holborn. The nearest underground station is Holborn on the Piccadilly and Central Lines. Upon leaving Holborn Station cross over High Holborn and walk up Southampton Row. Theobalds Road is on the right. |
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For a map and more information as to location, parking and traveling by bus train or underground from other stations click here (Transport House site) or click here (Google Maps site). |
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Speakers |
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Gabrielle Jan Posner
LLB (SO'TON); LLM (Indiana University)
Year of call 1984 |
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Gaby has established a busy practice dealing with all aspects of public and private law children cases, including care work, disputes about residence and contact, adoption and wardship proceedings. She is the author of numerous articles for a variety of legal journals and is a regular contributor to the ‘In Practice’ section of Family Law. In addition, she has an interest in education law and sits as a chair of school admission appeals. |
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Daniel Kingsley
MA(Cantab), Dip.Law
Year of call 1994 |
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Daniel has a wide ranging family practice encompassing all aspects of public and private law children cases. He acts for local authorities, children and parents in care, adoption, wardship, residence and contact proceedings. He has a particular interest in human rights law and is co-chair of the human rights charity CCJO.RenéCassin, which he has represented on many occasions at United Nations and OSCE human rights meetings. |
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Penny Cooper
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Penny is Associate Dean at the Inns of Court School of Law and Director of Knowledge Transfer at the City Law School, City University, London. She specialises in witness familiarisation and report writing and leads the registered intermediary legal training scheme for the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, training intermediaries to aid communication with vulnerable witnesses. She practiced as a barrister from 3 Paper Buildings, London and then spent 6 years providing in-house legal advice to the London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Hammersmith and Fulham before returning to private practice where she was instructed by many local authorities in London and the South East. She is the author of the recently published and already highly regarded Reporting to Court Under the Children Act – A Handbook for Practitioners (TSO, 2006). |
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Each delegate will receive documentation prepared specifically for this seminar. The documentation serves as a guide during the seminar and as a valuable source of reference for subsequent use. |
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Cost |
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1 delegate £50 + vat |
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2 delegates £90 + vat |
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3 delegates £130 + vat |
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4 or 5 delegates £160 + vat |
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6 or more delegates - £35 + vat per delegate |
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(vat invoices will be issued) |
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Contact us/ queries |
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For any query please contact the Chambers Administrator (Dawn Shaw) either by telephone (020 7440 8488) or fax (020 7440 8452) or to
contact by e mail click here. |
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