Past events
AGM, Annual Lecture and Drinks Party
This year’s annual lecture is titled “Adjudicating Religion”: Courts in democracies all over the world are increasingly being asked to determine claims based on the right…
Judicial Review Introductory Series
This series is intended to be an introductory course, and is ideally suited to pupils, junior public law practitioners, or experienced barristers interested in learning…
ALBA Summer Conference 2018
Booking is now open for ALBA’s summer conference, which is returning by popular demand to St John’s College Cambridge on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22…
Judicial Review – Funding and Costs
This breakfast seminar will discuss funding for claimants and interveners in judicial review claims, including protective costs orders (PCOs), costs capping orders (CCOs), Aarhus Convention…
Who You Know and What You Know – The GDPR and Public Bodies
The GDPR has attracted a huge amount of publicity but is still the subject of much confusion and misunderstanding. In this talk two experts in…
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Damages Liability of Public Authorities
This is a timely opportunity to look again at this important topic following the recent landmark decisions of the Supreme Court in Robinson v Chief Constable…
Second-guessing policy choices? The rule of law in and after the Supreme Court’s UNISON judgement
We have been asked to draw this event to members' attention. The speakers will be: Sir Stephen Laws KCB, former First Parliamentary Counsel Sir John…
“Defending Liberty in the Age of Donald Trump’: Lessons from the Front Line”
David Cole on “Defending Liberty” Members Invitation, 5 February 2018, 6.30pm, Hogan Lovells International LLP, London The Human Rights Lawyers Association (“HRLA”) and the Constitutional…
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What are the limits of judicial independence?
What are the limits of judicial independence? The Rt Hon Lord Falconer of Thoroton PC QC Former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice…
Enclaves and Exclaves: Limits and Exceptions to the Doctrine of Judicial Review
with The Honourable Dyson Heydon AC QC, former Justice of the High Court of Australia In the two centuries since Marbury v Madison, the 'province and…
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AGM, Annual Lecture and Drinks Party
This year’s annual lecture titled “Speaking in Unison? Access to justice and the Convention” will be given by Tim Eicke who was elected Britain’s Judge…
Wednesbury Anniversary
Judicial Review A special event, arranged by the Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA) with the assistance of No5 Barristers' Chambers, marking the continuing importance of…
Reception for Sir Andrew Collins
This reception is being held following the retirement of Sir Andrew Collins from the High Court and to mark his contribution to Public Law and…
A Review of the Year in Public Law
The past year has been an eventful one in Constitutional and Administrative Law and this talk will review and analyse the most recent developments.…
Judicial Review Introductory Series
This series is intended to be an introductory course, and is ideally suited to junior public law practitioners, and experienced barristers interested in learning about…
ALBA Summer Conference 2017
BOOKING IS NOW OPEN FOR THIS YEAR’S SUMMER CONFERENCE AND DINNER ON SATURDAY 22 JULY 2017 This year, the conference will be a…
Positive Obligations, Inquests and Inquiries
This talk will assess the most recent case law about when positive duties to safeguard and to investigate are engaged under Article 2 as well…
The broken conduit? A seminar on the Supreme Court’s Miller judgments
ALBA’s first seminar for 2017 will consider the Supreme Court’s judgments in Miller and Dos Santos v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union…
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Annual Lecture and Drinks Party
“WHAT CAN PUBLIC LAW LEARN FROM PRIVATE LAW?” Speaker: LORD NEUBERGER, PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME COURT 1 BSB CPD point The annual lecture is free.…
ALBA Summer Conference 2016
The ALBA Summer Conference is held annually and brings together practitioners, academics and others with an interest in public law for a series of sessions on topical issues within the sphere of Constitutional and Administrative Law.
Seminar: The Uses and Abuses of Unincorporated Treaties
Speakers: Helen Mountfield Q.C. and Tim Eicke Q.C. Chair: Lord Justice Lloyd Jones
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ALBA AGM and Annual Lecture: Proportionality and Democratic Legitimacy
17.30-18.00 AGM 18.00-19.30 Annual Lecture: Proportionality and Democratic Legitimacy. Drinks reception will follow directly after the lecture. Speaker: Lord Kerr, Justice of the Supreme Court Chair:…
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ALBA, UKELA & PEBA Joint Seminar: Climate Change & the Courts
ALBA, UKELA and PEBA are pleased to announce that they will be hosting an event to coincide with the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference.…
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ALBA Seminar Series: Introduction to Judicial Review
The series is intended to be an introductory course, and is ideally suited to junior public law practitioners, and experienced barristers interested in learning about…
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