Blackstone Lecture 2025: The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 - Twenty Years On
UPCOMING EVENT | 28 November 2025 17:30 - 28 November 2025 19:30
The forty-first Blackstone Lecture will be given by The Rt Hon. the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, on the topic of:
'The Constitutional Reform Act 2005: Twenty Years On'
Friday 28th November 2025 | Pichette Auditorium
Attendance by registration only
The event is kindly sponsored by Atkin Chambers.
Baroness Carr became Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales in October 2023. In this role she is President of the Courts of England and Wales and Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales. She is the first woman to hold this historic office. Prior to her appointment as Lady Chief Justice and since the start of her legal career in 1987, she has held positions across the High Court, served as Presider to the Midland Circuit from 2016-2020, then as Lady Justice of Appeal, the senior Judicial Commissioner and Vice Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission. She was a temporary Investigatory Powers Commissioner during the Covid-19 pandemic and became President of the Professional Negligence Bar Association in 2022.
Blackstone Lecture 2025: The Constitutional Reform Act 2005 - Twenty Years On
UPCOMING EVENT | 28 November 2025 17:30 - 28 November 2025 19:30
The forty-first Blackstone Lecture will be given by The Rt Hon. the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, on the topic of:
'The Constitutional Reform Act 2005: Twenty Years On'
Friday 28th November 2025 | Pichette Auditorium
Attendance by registration only
The event is kindly sponsored by Atkin Chambers.
Baroness Carr became Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales in October 2023. In this role she is President of the Courts of England and Wales and Head of the Judiciary of England and Wales. She is the first woman to hold this historic office. Prior to her appointment as Lady Chief Justice and since the start of her legal career in 1987, she has held positions across the High Court, served as Presider to the Midland Circuit from 2016-2020, then as Lady Justice of Appeal, the senior Judicial Commissioner and Vice Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission. She was a temporary Investigatory Powers Commissioner during the Covid-19 pandemic and became President of the Professional Negligence Bar Association in 2022.