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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. 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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.