2020
(VIRTUAL)
LEGAL WALES
CONFERENCE

9 October 2020

Draft Programme
(Subject to Revision)

11.00

Welcome

Huw Williams
(Chair, Legal Wales Foundation)

11.10

11.10

Opening Keynote
The Rt Hon Robert Buckland QC MP
(Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice)

11.30

11.30

Taking Forward the Justice in Wales Agenda

Jeremy Miles MS
(Counsel General)

11.50

11.50

Interval

12.00

Breakouts

Session Leader:

Session Leader

Arweinydd Sesiwn
(sessions in Welsh with simultaneous interpretation)

12.00

UKELA

Environmental Principles and Governance inWales, Post-Brexit

Dr Victoria Jenkins
(Swansea University)

Prof Bob Lee
(Birmingham University)

Cyfraith Gyhoeddus Cymru

Ex Parte Driver: Cam Hanesyddol yn Natblygiad y Gymraeg fel Iaith y Gyfraith

Rhodri Williams CF
Nia Gowman

12.30

12.30

Welsh Legal History Society

A Prism for his Times:
Late-Tudor Anglesey and Hugh Hughes
of Plas Coch

Robin Grove-White
(Lancaster University)

Public Law Wales

Putting a Brave Face on It – Human Rights and Policing in the Light of the Bridges Case

Andrew Brenton
(Iolis Legal Services)

Llywodraeth Cymru

Dylan Hughes
(Prif Gwnsler Deddfwriaethol Cymru)

13.00

13.00

Interval

13.30

13.30

Law Commission

Current Projects Relating to Wales

Nicholas Paines QC
(Law Commissioner for Public Law and the Law in Wales)

14.00

14.00

Forum
Law in Lockdown - Legal Practice During and After the Pandemic

Mark Evans
Karen Jones
HH Judge Isabel Parry
Jonathan Rees QC

14.55

14.55

Presentation on LEDLET / Legal Wales Summer Scheme

Thomas Jones
(Trustee, Lord Edmund Davies Legal Education Trust)
Elisabeth Jones
(Executive Committee Member, Legal Wales Foundation)

15.05

15.05

Closing Keynote

The Rt Hon Lord Burnett of Maldon
(Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales)

15.25

15.25

Thanks

15.30