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2017
LEGAL WALESCONFERENCE
Great Hall, Bay Campus
Crymlyn Burrows
Swansea University
SA1 8EN
Friday 15 September 2017

Draft Conference Programme

Session
9:00 / Registration / 9:30
9:30 / Opening Session
Conference Opening
Honorary Professor Keith Bush QC
(Conference Director)
Welcome to the Conference
HH Judge MilwynJarman QC
(Chair, Legal Wales Foundation) / 9:45
9.45 / Plenary Session 1
“The Future of the Welsh Law Schools”
Professor Iwan Davies
(Pro Vice-Chancellor, Swansea University)
/ 10.15
10:15 / Plenary Session 2
“Developing Legal Wales”
Sir David Lloyd Jones
(Lord Justice of Appeal) / 10:45
10:45 / Coffee / 11:15
Breakout
Strand A
Legal Education and Practice
Strand Leader
Dr Chris Marshall
(Swansea University College of Law and Criminology) / Breakout
Strand B
Public Law
Strand Leader
David Gardner
(Wales Public Law and Human Rights Association) / Breakout
Strand C
Civil and social rights
Strand Leader
Jane Williams
(Swansea University College of Law and Criminology)
11:15 / “Modern Regulation:
flexibility to meet the needs of Wales”
Crispin Passmore
(Executive Director, Policy,
Solicitors Regulation Authority) / “Administrative Justice in Wales”
Dr. Sarah Nason
(Bangor University School of Law School) / “Civil and Social Rights in Wales: the Distinctive Legislative Framework” / 12:00
12:00 / “Legal Education Research Network (LERN) Cymru”
Richard Owen
(Swansea University College of Law and Criminology) / “Reforming the Law Applicable in Wales”
Nicholas Paines QC
(Commissioner, Law Commission of England and Wales) / “Embedding rights in public services: what it means for litigators” / 12:45
12:45 / Lunch / 13:45
13:45 / “Innovation and Technologyin Legal Practice”
Session Moderator:
Michael Draper
(Associate Professor Swansea University College of Law and Criminology)
“How to embrace technology and a culture of innovation”
Jimmy Vestbirk,
(Founder, Legal Geek)
“Legaltech start-ups and the realities of delivering legal practice in a technology-driven world”
Adam Curtis
(Managing Director,
Hoowla)
‘The role of artificial intelligence in legal practice’
[TBC] / “Transforming the Accessibility of Law Applicable to Wales”
Dylan Hughes
(First Welsh Legislative Counsel)
(Session in Welsh with simultaneous translation into English) / “Access to Justice as a Human Right” / 14:30
14:30 / “GwilymPrys Davies – a life in the law, politics and government of Wales”
Emyr Lewis
(Senior Partner for Wales, Blake Morgan)
(Session in Welsh with simultaneous translation into English) / [Wales Commercial Law Association]
[TBC] / 15:15
15:15 / Tea / 15:45
15:45 / Plenary Session 3
“Brexit and the Law in Wales”
A discussion
Moderator:
Professor Richard Rawlings
(Professor of Public Law, University College London)
Panel Members:
Dr Jo Hunt
(Reader, Cardiff University School of Law and Politics)
Dr Victoria Jenkins
(Senior Lecturer, Swansea University College of Law and Criminology)
[TBC] / 17:00
17:00 / Plenary Session 4
The Rt Hon Lord Thomas of Cwmgïedd
(Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales)
/ 17:25
17:25 / Closing Session
Thanks and Close of the Conference
Professor Elwen Evans QC
(Head, Swansea University College of Law and Criminology) / 17:30
17:30 / Conference Reception
Host:
Joe Egan
(President, Law Society of England and Wales)
(session supported by the Law Society)
/ 19:00