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Conference "The Training Process- a Positive Experience for All"
BPP's Manchester Law School - Thursday 7th July 2005
Firms who will be represented include Trowers and Hamlins, Beachcroft Wansbroughs; Mayer Brown and Rowe, Horwich Farrely, Halliwells, Forbes, Cobbett, Stephensons, Shulmans and McCormicks. Representatives from the Crown Prosecution Service and the Legal Services Commission have also confirmed they will be attending. For a programme of the event please click here.
Winners of the BPP Scholarship Programme 2005
Chairman's Scholarship - Charlotte Beresford
Chairman's Runner Up Scholarship - Laura Wright
Chief Executive's Scholarship - Jessica Atkinson
Director of GDL Scholarship - Daphne Dadzie
Director of LPC Scholarship - Samara Basharat
Director of BVC Scholarship - Lisa Wright
Managing Director's Scholarship Manchester - Jack Wayne
Managing Director's Scholarship Leeds - Suzanne Treene
League Championship win for BPP Leeds
BPP are proud to announce that the BPP Law School, Leedss’ mens 5 a-side football team have won their final game of the season to clinch the championship. This is the Leeds Law League which features local law and accountancy firms.
BPP Sponsorship prize - Nazia Yaqub
Jonathan
Haines, Managing Director of BPP Law School Leeds, presents the BPP Sponsorship
Prize at Bradford Law School to Nazia Yaqub for the Best performance in
Tort.
BPP LPC wins City prize
Five of the UK's leading law firms have selected BPP as the exclusive national provider of the Legal Practice Course for their future trainee solicitors. Read more.
Managing Director appointed for new law school in Manchester
Mandy Gill has been appointed as the new Managing Director of BPP's Law School in Manchester. Mandy joins BPP from The Law Society where she was Quality Assurance officer where she was responsible for validating and monitoring all LPC courses in the UK.
Previously she was Director of Manchester Metropolitan University's LPC course.
BPP to open new Law School in Manchester
Following the success of BPP's Law Schools in London and Leeds, BPP plans to open a Law School in Manchester. The new Law School will be located on Oxford Road in the heart of Manchester's student district. The new Law School will open in 2005 and will, initially offer 150 LPC and 120 GDL places but is planning to have a future capacity for up to 600 students.
Peter Crisp, Chief Executive of the Law School, said "The success of Leeds has convinced us that Manchester is going to work".
Sheffield LPC Director joins BPP
BPP Law School has hired the head of Sheffield University Law School to become the director of its Police Accreditation Scheme. Elizabeth Smart is currently director of the Legal Practice Course at Sheffield and also teaches civil and criminal litigation. She joins BPP in July and will be based at BPP's new Law School in Leeds.
BPP Pro Bono Centre hosts panel discussion
As part of National Pro Bono week BPP's Pro Bono Centre is to host a panel discussion on Pro Bono work and legal education at the Law School's London (Holborn) branch. Panelists include Chris Maguire (Bar Council), Richard Grimes (College of Law), Sue Bucknall (Solicitor's Pro Bono Group) and Hugh Brayne (Clinical Legal Education Consultant).
The event will take place at BPP's London (Holborn) branch of the Law School at 6.30pm, Tuesday 8 June. For more information please contact Kara Irwin, Director of Pro Bono.
Student wins essay competition
BPP
BVC student, Victoria Ward, won the Learning in Law Initiative (LILI) 2004
student essay competition.
Her essay on the LILI conference theme "Is legal education working" can be read here.
Managing Director appointed for BPP Law School, Leeds
Jonathan Haines has been appointed Managing Director of BPP's new law School in Leeds. Jonathan has considerable experience in legal education having previously headed BPP's "excellent" rated LPC course, the School's highly respected Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) course and more recently managing BPP's Professional Development training.
BPP lecturer's world record
They
battled against the harshest conditions for 15 years, fought 70mph winds
and crossed some of the world's most treacherous landscapes. Alastair Vere
Nicoll, one of our very own lecturers, set out to endure the toughest environment
on earth in order to break 3 World Records last November.
Starting at the foot of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, Alastair and his team started where Scott left off exactly 100 years ago in their quest to become the fastest (and the youngest Britons) ever to traverse the continent.
A film crew met the team at the South Pole to record the second part of their journey, allowing them to continually update their progress on the BPP website using video clips and regular diary entries.
But after a grueling month, the British-led ski team returned triumphantly, having broken the world record for the shortest time to reach the South Pole.
Click here to view the official website or here to view the promotional poster.
BPP/ Lawyer2B prize scholarship competition
In
conjunction with Lawyer2B, BPP Law School ran an essay competition with
the fantastic prize of a free place on the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)
conversion course for non-law graduates and a free place on the Legal Practice
Course (LPC) for law graduates at BPP. The prize scholarship covered all
course fees, examination fees and a range of books and materials.
The short list
3 candidates were short listed for the GDL section and 3 for the LPC.
Short listed candidates were asked to give a 10 minute presentation on their essay topic followed by questions from the panel.
The selection panel
Bernard
George, Director of Training, Dechert.
Mat Swallow, Editor, Lawyer 2B.
Liz Fletcher, John Herrmann and Debbie Bennett, BPP.
Competition result
The judges have selected the 2 deserving winners and Victoria Booth and Theobald Naud will commence their studies in London in September 2005. Victoria will be studying for her GDL and Theobald his LPC.
The winners were congratulated and presented with their prize by the Baroness J Cohen at the House of Lords.
Discussion with Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
Recent attacks upon the legal profession and the rule of law threaten the foundations of our society. Please join us for an informal and informative session, discussing Liberty’s work and current campaigns.
Shami Chakrabarti was appointed Director of Liberty in September 2003 after spending 2 years as Liberty’s in-house counsel. She will discuss Liberty’s current campaigns, casework and parliamentary lobbying followed by a Q&A session.
More information about Liberty and human rights issues can be found at www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk
Building a Culture of Human Rights
Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty
Monday 31st January 6pm
BPP Law School Holborn, Lecture Theatre
For more information email Alistair Robertson: humanrights@bpplaw.co.uk
