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Dominic Regan, Visiting Professor in The City Law School chaired the biggest Webinar in legal history, in conjunction with the New Law Journal earlier this month.

The discussion took place following British Judge Sir Rupert Jackson's proposals to reduce costs of litigation, and was streamed live on the NLJ website.

Regan, a leading authority on civil procedure and costs, was joined by His Honour Michael Cook; David Greene, NLJ consultant Editor and President of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, Edwin Coe; Bob Musgrove, Chief Executive of the Civil Justice Council; Nick Bevan, Senior Counsel, Bond Pearce and Simon Butler, Ely Place Chambers.

The panellists gave immediate analysis of the Jackson report as well as their predictions of the report's potential impact on the legal profession.

The webinar was so popular that large numbers of visitors to the site caused it to crash. It can now be viewed online.

See the full text of Lord Justice Jackson's review on Civil Litigation Costs via the Judiciary website.

Teams for this year's prestigious City Law School-Blackstone Mooting Competition have been announced! The Moot takes place annually towards the end of January and attracts a large number of high calibre candidates from amongst those undertaking the Bar Vocational Course at The City Law School. The Moot is sponsored by Blackstone's Chambers.

The City Law School supports students' participation in external mooting competitions where we have an excellent record of success. National and international mooting competitions are run annually, with often large cash prizes. Further details of mooting opportunities at The City Law School are outlined here or for students at City University, here.

The City Law School is organising the first International Conference on Practising Law. This major event will take place at Gray's Inn and will provide a unique opportunity for legal practitioners and academics from around the world to exchange knowledge and skills.

You are invited to submit proposals for papers to be presented at the conference. Proposals should be emailed to mailto:cpd-cls@city.ac.uk no later than the 22nd January 2010.

Get flyer here.

For further information please contact Jane Brandt; tel +44 (0)207 400 3608.

To book a place at the conference, please complete our registration form.

Professor Penny Cooper
Associate Dean for Knowledge Transfer and Director of CPD

The City Law School
4 Gray's Inn Place
London, WC15 5DX

www.city.ac.uk/law

Students from The City Law School attended a record breaking training session for the National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV).

The City Law School hosted the largest single student training session earlier this month, for the National Centre for Domestic Violence (NCDV). In total, 117 students were present, beating the previous attendance record of 99, set recently at the College of Law.

The group included students from City's GDL, LPC and LLB courses, as well as colleagues from the College of Law and elsewhere in the country. All the participants spent a weekend being trained to be 'McKenzie Friends', who work in an advisory role with unrepresented victims of domestic abuse.

After two days of training the students, improved their legal clinical skills, they all qualified for volunteering work. Some of the attendees will be assessed on their work as McKenzie Friends in the future in a unique elective in the BVC.

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