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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Law Department

London School of Economics

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE

 

Contacts:

Grant Bell, Postgraduate Programmes Administrator

Email: g.m.bell@lse.ac.uk, Tel: 020 7106 1227

Dianne Delvaille, LL.M Programme Administrator

Email: d.delvaille@lse.ac.uk, Tel: 020 7955 7266

• The LSE LLM Degree can be secured over one, two or four years.

• Our programme offers practitioners an outstanding opportunity to pursue continuing professional development through a wide range of courses accredited by the Law Society and Bar Council. Areas covered include:

• Banking Law and Financial Regulation; Commercial Law; Corporate Law; Securities Law; Criminology and Criminal Justice; European Law; Human Rights Law; Information Technology, Media and Communications Law; Intellectual Property Law; International Business Law; Employment Law; Legal Theory; Public International Law; Public Law; Taxation.

• LSE’s Law Department is rated in the highest categories for research and teaching, and received the highest ranking in the country in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008. The LLM is taught at the School’s central London campus, immediately adjacent to the Royal Courts of Justice.

• Our courses build on the strengths of the Department and are taught by both full-time staff and experienced London practitioners. The result is a valuable mixture of practical and academic insights into law. Students also benefit from small group teaching, whether in classes which support lecture based courses or in seminar based courses.

• The Law Department also offers LLM students a number of Specialist Seminar Series, additional to LLM courses, which are given by distinguished visiting academics and practitioners.

Please contact Grant Bell or Dianne Delvaille or see our website http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/law/programmes/llm/llm-prospective.htm for further details.

 

MEDIATION

 

School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology

DEVELOP THE SKILLS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESSFUL CONFLICT RESOLUTION

MEDIATION SKILLS COURSE

› 5 day course: provides Accredited Mediator status

› Bar Council and Law Society approved CPD hours: 40

› Unique psychotherapeutic approach to conflict management

› Central London location in Regent’s Park

CONTACT US FOR 2013 START DATES

 

Tel 020 7025 0356 (Course Leader Paul Randolph)

Email spcp@regents.ac.uk

Web www.regents.ac.uk/spcp

Member of and registering organisation with The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Looking for a Mediator? Check our database: http://adr.regents.ac.uk/adr

 

WELFARE BENEFITS

Child Poverty Action Group

CPAG’s experience and knowledge in the welfare rights field is unrivalled. Our benefit handbooks are the definitive guide for those working in advice, support and advocacy nationwide. This experience has been used to inform and design the training courses we offer.

An understanding of the benefits system is fundamental for all practitioners who deal with publicly-funded clients, as the ability to identify possible ways of increasing income may help to resolve the overall matter with which the practitioner is dealing.

Our courses are run from our London office, or we can come to a venue of your choice.

Courses include:

• Welfare benefits update (half day)

Designed to cover the essentials for non-specialists who will not deal with welfare benefits issues on a regular basis.

• Universal credit

A comprehensive overview of the new system in place from 2013.

• Separation, maintenance and settlement

A practical course that addresses welfare benefits issues that are especially relevant to family lawyers, such as the effects of lump sum payments and maintenance on benefits.

• Judicial review: social security and tax credits

Aims to give lawyers a clear understanding of what can be an effective weapon for challenging decisions that affect benefit and tax credit claimants.

• Employment and support allowance transfers and appeals

Looks at the rules on Immigration of claims for incapacity benefits to claims for ESA, and at appeal issues and tactics.

• Tax credit problems

Focuses on problem areas relating to overpayments and appeals.

• EU co-ordination of social security

This course explains the EU/EEA law about the co-ordination of benefit systems between different EEA states.

• Benefits & tax credits law update

This course examines the most significant changes in the law in the past six months.

• Welfare reform

The Government’s welfare reform programme is introducing major changes to the benefit and tax credit system. This course examines the changes and their effect on claimants. It is available as an in-house course only.

 

For further information and a free copy of our training brochure, please contact:

The Training and Events Team

Child Poverty Action Group

94 White Lion Street

London N1 9PF

020 7812 5202/236

• fax 020 7837 6414

• email training@cpag.org.uk

Training information also on our website: www.cpag.org.uk

Charity No. 294841

 

Legal Services Directory 2013