Blackstone Lecture 2017: "Juries Past and Present"
PAST EVENT | 20 May 2017 11:30 - 20 May 2017 12:30
The annual Blackstone Lecture will be given this year by The Rt Hon Dame Heather Carol Hallett DBE, who will be speaking on “Juries Past and Present”.
The lecture will take place in Pembroke's Pichette Auditorium on Saturday 20th May from 11.30am - 12.30pm. The event is free and open to all, however attendees must register for a place via Eventbrite.
When in the early 1970s a generous benefactor of Pembroke College suggested the establishment of a distinguished lecture series in law sponsored by the College, no similar event existed in Oxford’s Law Faculty. The Blackstone Lectures have since 1976 provided audiences with the distilled thoughts of the most distinguished legal minds of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
About the Speaker
The Rt Hon Dame Heather Carol Hallett DBE was educated at grammar schools in Hampshire and at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She was called to the Bar in 1972. In 1989 she became a QC and was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown Court. She became a Bencher of Inner Temple in 1993. She served as Leader of the South Eastern Circuit between 1995 and 1997 and as Director of Public Affairs for the Bar Council. She was the first woman to chair the Bar Council in 1998. Her practice was general common law with an emphasis on crime.
She became a full-time judge of the Queens Bench Division in 1999 and became a Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit shortly thereafter. She was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 2005 and served on the Judicial Appointments Commission as an inaugural Commissioner and then as Vice Chairman for approximately 5 years. She was Treasurer of the Inner Temple for 2011 and has served as Chairman of the Magisterial Committee of the Judicial Studies Board and as the Chairman of the Judicial College responsible for judicial training. In 2011 she was appointed Vice-President of the Queen’s Bench Division and later, in 2013, she was appointed Vice President of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. Lady Justice Hallett acted as Coroner at the inquest into the deaths of the 52 victims of the July 7th London bombings. She is married with two sons.
Blackstone Lecture 2017: "Juries Past and Present"
PAST EVENT | 20 May 2017 11:30 - 20 May 2017 12:30
The annual Blackstone Lecture will be given this year by The Rt Hon Dame Heather Carol Hallett DBE, who will be speaking on “Juries Past and Present”.
The lecture will take place in Pembroke's Pichette Auditorium on Saturday 20th May from 11.30am - 12.30pm. The event is free and open to all, however attendees must register for a place via Eventbrite.
When in the early 1970s a generous benefactor of Pembroke College suggested the establishment of a distinguished lecture series in law sponsored by the College, no similar event existed in Oxford’s Law Faculty. The Blackstone Lectures have since 1976 provided audiences with the distilled thoughts of the most distinguished legal minds of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
About the Speaker
The Rt Hon Dame Heather Carol Hallett DBE was educated at grammar schools in Hampshire and at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. She was called to the Bar in 1972. In 1989 she became a QC and was appointed as a Recorder of the Crown Court. She became a Bencher of Inner Temple in 1993. She served as Leader of the South Eastern Circuit between 1995 and 1997 and as Director of Public Affairs for the Bar Council. She was the first woman to chair the Bar Council in 1998. Her practice was general common law with an emphasis on crime.
She became a full-time judge of the Queens Bench Division in 1999 and became a Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit shortly thereafter. She was promoted to the Court of Appeal in 2005 and served on the Judicial Appointments Commission as an inaugural Commissioner and then as Vice Chairman for approximately 5 years. She was Treasurer of the Inner Temple for 2011 and has served as Chairman of the Magisterial Committee of the Judicial Studies Board and as the Chairman of the Judicial College responsible for judicial training. In 2011 she was appointed Vice-President of the Queen’s Bench Division and later, in 2013, she was appointed Vice President of the Court of Appeal Criminal Division. Lady Justice Hallett acted as Coroner at the inquest into the deaths of the 52 victims of the July 7th London bombings. She is married with two sons.