Events

Blagg dinner

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:09:06 +0100

BLAGG DINNER
16 JULY 2010 at 7pm
VENUE : CHEZ GERARD, CHANCERY LANE

This summer we are hosting a lovely summer dinner at Chez Gerard. Some of you will remember that we had an enjoyable evening in February 2010 at the same venue in honour of His Honour Judge Lochrane’s appointment to the Circuit Bench.

This July we have a very special guest, Mr Justice Roderick Wood who has very kindly accepted our invitation to dinner and to speak to us after dinner. We are very honoured to have Mr Justice Wood who sits in the Family Division of The High Court and is an experienced Judge, having been a Circuit Judge since 2002 and later elevated to the High Court Bench in 2004.

We propose to adopt a similar format to that we used for HHJ Lochrane’s dinner in terms of the cost of the dinner, that being on a graduated basis according to seniority. You will no doubt agree that the method applied is a fair one in order to attract as many students and more junior members of the bar. The cost which will include a three course meal and wine will be:

2005 call and earlier   £50
2006 and later             £35
Students/pupils           £25

Please send a cheque made payable to BLAGG, together with your completed menu choices in the form below to: Hassan Khan, 4 Paper Buildings, Temple, London, EC4Y 7AX, DX LDE 1035

Should you have any questions please contact Hassan Khan, email hk@4pb.com, telephone 020 7583 0816

We look forward to seeing you all soon.

London Pride

Sat, 3 Jul 2010 09:36:23 +0100

Join the legal sector London Pride Team 2010

BLAGG is calling on members to join it and 500,000 people at the Pride London Parade on Saturday 3rd July to celebrate and promote diversity and tackle discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Members are invited to join colleagues from across the legal sector for the march, under the banner Equality under the Law.

Groups taking part in the walk this year are the Law Society, the Bar Council, the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX), Interlaw, the Junior Lawyers Division of the Law Society (JLD), the Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Association, (LAGLA) and the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group (BLAGG).

The legal sector Pride team will meet at 12pm on Saturday 3rd July on Marylebone Road, outside the University of Westminster, next to Chiltern Street and from there, walk to the start point, located on Baker Street, for 1pm.

After the march, everyone in the legal sector team is invited to Walkers of Whitehall for a post event get together. http://www.walkersofwhitehall.co.uk/

In a very exciting development, BLAGG has been given the green light to march in wigs and gowns – it may not be ideal for a hot July Saturday (what are the chances?!?), but it is bound to attract attention and allow us to show just how diverse, open and accessible a profession we are. Obviously, this will only work if as many of us as possible actually do turn up robed!

Looking forward to seeing you there.

All the best,
Corinne on behalf of the committee

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Keep up to date with the legal sector Pride 2010 march and register your interest on our Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/37cyxna

And we’re also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LegalPride2010

Visit the London Pride 2010 website at http://www.pridelondon.org/

Ninth Stonewall Lecture

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:00:41 +0100

Ninth Stonewall Lecture: Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity in the Judiciary: Judicial Experiences, Institutionalised Prejudice and Recommendations for Change Law

Society's Common Room at 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
 Professor Leslie J. Moran, Birkbeck College, University of London
Chair: The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Etherton

The vote of thanks will be proposed by Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of Stonewall. Daniel Winterfeldt, InterLaw Diversity Forum, will also discuss the recent LGBT judicial diversity report after the lecture proper.

The lecture will start at 6pm sharp and will be followed by a reception in the Reading Room of the Law Society at around 7:30.

CPD: 1 hour

This is a LAGLA (Lesbian and Gay Lawyers) event. More information and online registration: Ninth Stonewall Lecture: Sexual Diversity and Gender Identity in the Judiciary: Judicial Experiences, Institutionalised Prejudice and Recommendations for Change.

UK Lesbian & Gay Immigration Group

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:06:52 +0100

Diversity Choir

Mon, 7 Jun 2010 19:30:15 +0100

The summer concert will be part of The Bernstein Project’s Making Music Series at the Southbank Centre.

Bernstein: The Chichester Psalms
Eric Whitacre: Five Hebrew Love Songs

The Chichester Psalms, a choral piece, is one of Bernstein’s most overtly Jewish works. More than any composer before him, Bernstein blurred the lines between high art and popular music. The score, commissioned in 1965 by Chichester Cathedral in England, was drawn almost entirely from cut numbers in Broadway shows (including West Side Story).

7.30pm, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tickets: £7, £10, £15 (some concessions available)
To book: www.southbankcentre.co.uk or 0844 847 9910