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Int Can We Solve Cityexpert: the Mystery? Professor Peter Kunzlik Summer 2011 CourseFocus: Absent Benefits of the LLB? No longer Witnesses a moot point Can we solve CityExpert: the mystery? Professor Peter Kunzlik Firm Focus: Farrer & Co CityView: The ‘In Law’ Roundtable on the Equality Act CPD_AD_22_11_10.qxd:Layout 1 23/11/10 10:30 Page 1 World-class legal education in the heart of London Continuing Professional Development The City Law School offers a range Our courses cover a wide range of skills including: > Advocacy of in-house and public CPD courses > Case Planning and Preparation > Drafting for solicitors, barristers, judges and > Evidence professionals with an interest in law. > Higher Rights > Management Course Stage 1 > Tailored in-house courses > Management Course Stage 2 > Public one-day courses > Negotiation > Bespoke training and mentoring > Report and Opinion Writing > Witness Familiarisation …and much, much more Accredited by both the SRA and the BSB for the provision of CPD, our expert trainers offer extensive experience in legal For more information and to apply online, visit practice, training and consultancy. With an emphasis on www.city.ac.uk/law “learning through doing”, we provide exceptional value for money and effective training methods. To discuss your training needs please call Stephen Laurie on +44 (0)20 7400 3603 or email [email protected] today! Please quote the following reference when contacting us: CPD10711110 www.city.ac.uk/law CPD_AD_22_11_10.qxd:Layout 1 23/11/10 10:30 Page 1 World-class legal education In Law Team Law in the heart of London In DEAN / DIRECTOR: 3 Professor Susan Nash [email protected] PUBLISHER: Seth Stromboli +44 (0)20 7040 4209 [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Edward Fennell Continuing Professional +44 (0)20 7040 8396 contents [email protected] NEWS DESK: Development Ben Mitchell +44 (0)20 7040 4206 [email protected] Marie Wood +44 (0)20 7040 8396 [email protected] 09. PRODUCTION / DESIGN: Melissa Sterry Absent +44 (0)7811 443314 [email protected] Witnesses: 09. Can we solve the mystery? GENERAL ENQUIRIES: IN LAW MAGAZINE 04. Welcome: The City Law School City University London Letter from the Dean Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB 05. Editorial +44 (0)20 7040 8396 [email protected] 12. CourseFocus: Benefits of the LLB? No PUBLISHED: JULY 2011 longer a moot point For advertising and editorial 13. contributions, or to receive your FREE 13. CityExpert: copy of In Law, email [email protected] or call us today on +44 (0)20 7040 8396. Professor Peter Kunzlik 16. NEWS: City Law School students The City Law School offers a range Our courses cover a wide range of skills including: > Advocacy win A&O Business of in-house and public CPD courses > Case Planning and Preparation Challenge for solicitors, barristers, judges and > Drafting > Evidence 17. City Law professionals with an interest in law. > Higher Rights School Life: > Management Course Stage 1 > Tailored in-house courses > Management Course Stage 2 Getting down and dirty 17. > Public one-day courses > Negotiation with pro bono > Bespoke training and mentoring > Report and Opinion Writing For more information on > Witness Familiarisation …and much, much more The City Law School, visit 20. NEWS: Accredited by both the SRA and the BSB for the provision www.city.ac.uk/law, Liberty, Supreme Court of CPD, our expert trainers offer extensive experience in legal For more information and to apply online, visit email [email protected] pro bono tie-ups practice, training and consultancy. With an emphasis on www.city.ac.uk/law or call +44 (0)20 7040 3309. “learning through doing”, we provide exceptional value 21. Firm Focus: for money and effective training methods. To discuss your training needs please call Stephen Laurie www.city.ac.uk/law on +44 (0)20 7400 3603 or email [email protected] today! Farrer & Co Please quote the following reference when contacting us: CPD1110 : @CityLawSchool 25. CityPeople: Professor Philippa : Thecitylawschool Watson, Visiting Professor 21. in European Law www.city.ac.uk/law Law In 4 Letter from the Dean The School continues to lead the field in its pursuit of innovative and up-to-the-minute teaching tools. Welcome to the fifth edition of students across all our courses. Our previous clients have included the In Law, the magazine that gives us Our pro bono team has already joined likes of the Ministry of Justice, Allen the opportunity to tell our students, forces this year with Liberty to set & Overy and the Crown Prosecution alumni and our many friends in the up an inaugural Letter Writing Clinic, Service and now we can add the City and the wider legal profession which will enable our LPC and BPTC ESCP European Business School in about the latest goings-on here at students to provide advice to members Paris to that illustrious roster. Earlier The City Law School. of the public in live human rights cases. this year, 39 of its own postgraduate law students successfully completed We are currently entering a period of The School also continues to lead a company law and litigation course consolidation in higher education as the field in its pursuit of innovative here at the School. The students we continue to digest the changes that and up-to-the-minute teaching tools. also enjoyed trips to the Inns and the have already taken effect and those Our Moodle learning environment, courts and a series of talks from senior that will shape the future of the sector for instance, will be available to practitioners during their stay, lavishing for institutions and students alike. students across all our academic high praise on our course and staff and professional programmes from The City Law School, however, remains upon their return to France. September. in a reassuringly strong position, Our strength in a wide range of not least by virtue of our mixed Feedback from our student areas from academic study to diet of academic and professional representatives on the overall transition professional development combined programmes and our international from Cityspace thusfar has been with our commitment to long-term profile, which is growing stronger all uniformly positive and the overall the time. consensus is that students and staff development serve us well in a climate alike are very pleased with Moodle in that will continue to present significant Indeed, in recent months the School terms of navigation, accessing content obstacles. It is an exciting time for has underlined its global credentials by and assessment. The City Law School and I look forward hosting two high-ranking international to seeing us meet the challenge. legal delegations in the space of Our progress in this area is evident with a fortnight. Russian Minister of the well-publicised success of Marcus Justice Alexsandr Konovalov and his Soanes and James Toner, who recently diplomatic detail visited the School as won a brace of internal awards for their part of an ongoing research project work on the development of innovative into professional legal training in new online organisational tools for the country. Just a few days later, students. Japanese judges Masataka Nakagawa, Further afield, our programme of of the General Secretariat of the Continuing Professional Development Supreme Court, Tokyo, and Kyoto’s (CPD) also continues to lead the pack Professor Susan Nash, Judge Satoshi Watahiki also paid a visit under the direction of Professor Penny Dean, The City Law School as part of a DNA and rules of evidence Cooper. The School runs an amazingly fact-finding mission to London. www.city.ac.uk/law diverse range of legal skills courses Closer to home, we continue to for solicitors, accountants, healthcare expand our enviable portfolio of practitioners and other professionals, pro bono programmes with more drawing on the collective knowledge opportunities than ever available to and expertise of our staff. Law In 5 Summer 2011 CourseFocus: Absent Benefits of the LLB? No longer Witnesses a moot point Can we solve CityExpert: the mystery? Professor Peter Kunzlik Firm Focus: Farrer & Co CityView: Editorial Coverage The ‘In Law’ Roundtable on the Equality Act We have a bumper collection of articles in this edition of IN LAW covering the full gamut of legal activity from pro bono work and campaigning for equality through to European competition law and ‘absent witnesses’. As ever, most of the expertise featured in the articles comes from within The City Law School itself. One of the benefits of having a fully-formed institution - strong on research as well as academic and vocational teaching - is that members of the faculty can have their feet in a number of camps. With that in mind, we feature Professor Peter Kunzlik and examine his role in shaping key pieces of environmental legislation; Philippa Watson, Visiting Professor in European Law, discusses her career in the fields of regulatory, agriculture, economic and social issues; and Robert McPeake highlights the tangled web that has emerged between UK law and European human rights legislation over what happens when witnesses are too scared to come to court. Meanwhile, our ‘roundtable’ on the new equality legislation drew on the expert knowledge of Senior Lecturer Snigdha Nag and Visiting Professor Dominic Regan as well as an excellent external contribution from Sailesh Mehta, a campaigning barrister of 18 Red Lion Court. It certainly produced a sparky debate! On our own account We also have plenty of interest about what is happening here within the school. The good news is that the student numbers are moving in the right direction and the scores on the A-level tariff among new undergraduates is higher than ever before. One of the benefits they enjoy is that the School has made a major commitment to pro bono activity, both because it is extremely worthwhile (and much needed) in itself and also because it can offer tremendous scope for law students to observe and take part in the real world of law in action.
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