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Exclusive Pre-Sale: Spring Carnival to Benefit the Albert Kennedy Trust (Sunday, April 22nd)
Come join us on Sunday, April 22nd for our third annual InterLaw Diversity Forum Spring Carnival to support and celebrate the work of the Albert Kennedy Trust with homeless and at risk LGBT youth. We have once again secured the exclusive Club at the Ivy as our venue.Details will be announced soon and there are lots of surprises to that will make this year’s Carnival better than ever. Pictures from last year’s extravaganza can be found here.
We are now opening our exclusive social media advance three-day booking period so contact Jonathan Penny at the AKT to pre-book your tickets now!
Gold Tickets (£60) Entry to Spring Carnival; Welcome Drink; and Canapés Reception.
Platinum Tickets (£150) Entry to Spring Carnival; Welcome Drink; Canapés Reception; Dinner in the Drawing Room (Main Course, Dessert and Coffee or Tea). Tables may be booked for groups between 2 and 8 guests.
Tickets have sold out every year so book now to ensure a spot!
If you have not done so already visit our Facebook page now and ‘like’ us, follow us on Twitter (@InterlawLGBT) or link up with us at LinkedIn.
Limited hosting and sponsorship packages are available. For details, contact Stephenward100@hotmail.com and daniel.winterfeldt@cms-cmck.com.
Different Shades of the Same Rainbow: A BAME and LGBT Event from the InterLaw Diversity Forum, the Bar and the Law Society on Wednesday, 23rd November
Wednesday, 23rd November, 6.00 pm, Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL
The InterLaw Diversiry Forum, the Law Society and the Bar want to explore experience of black, asian and minority ethnic (“BAME”) members of the legal sector and see how this experience is impacted when those members are also part of the LGBT community.
Hear from Dr Rob Berkeley of Runnymede Trust and Ms Laura Swiszczowski of Race for Opportunity as they speak about some of the barriers BAME & LGBT professionals face particularly in the legal workplace and how to overcome them in order to succeed and still stay connected to our various communities. Hear also from senior lawyers who speak from the heart on the challenges of being LGBT and BAME in modern day Britain.
This event will be followed by networking drinks in a safe and engaging environment.
6 pm registration for a 6:30 pm start.
If you are interested in attending please contact Sophia Nadur on s_nadur@yahoo.com or Daniel Winterfeldt on daniel.winterfeldt@cms-cmck.com.
Transgender Community in the Workplace Seminar (Tuesday, 1st November, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, Lloyds TSB)
Lloyds Banking Group and the Interlaw Diversity Forum are pleased to invite you to our Transgender Community In The Workplace seminar hosted by Lloyds TSB at , 25 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7HN.
Whilst many organisations now have open and effective networks to support LGBT staff, the T population is small and fragmented, with very different needs / requirements from HR, LGB staff and within their own community. This seminar is aimed at HR professionals, employee network group representatives and members of the T community, and will feature speakers from the Gender Trust, one of the UK’s leading organisations working in this field, Lloyds Banking Group’s Diversity & Inclusion team and transgender(ed) individuals. We will be covering issues around the current legal framework for transgender(ed) individuals, how this translates into a work concept, and how companies can best support transgender(ed) individuals and maintain employee engagement.
As far as we’re aware this is one of the first events to be run in this space and we’re really excited about the contribution we hope it will make. We look forward to welcoming you on 1st November. The event will begin at 1600. At present we have not fully decided on a venue as we are waiting to ascertain the level of interest, but it will be in central London.
To RSVP please email patrick.osborne@lloydsbanking.com, listing who will be attending from your organisation in order of preference as we may need to restrict attendance to ensure as many organisations as possible can participate. Please make this invitation available to relevant LGBT network, HR and management contacts as relevant in your organisation.
Feminist Judgments: how women can, and do, shape the law
The InterLaw Diversity Forum Women’s Initiative hosted an evening exploring Feminist Judgments: how women can, and do, shape the law. The evening was hosted by Norton Rose LLP at their offices at 3 More London Riverside.
We were honoured to have Baroness Hale of Richmond (the only female member of the UK Supreme Court) speak about the importance of women’s perspectives for the law and how women can contribute to different legal decisions. Following Baroness Hale’s introduction, we are delighted to look into three fascinating decisions of the English courts which provoke discussion about what a ‘feminist’ judgment in these cases might have looked like.
The ‘Feminist Judgments’ project undertaken by Professor Rosemary Hunter of the University of Kent and Professor Clare McGlynn and Dr Erika Rackley of the University of Durham is an imaginative collaboration which has sought to write alternative feminist judgments to significant legal cases. Rather than producing academic critiques, our speakers have engaged in a practical exercise of writing alternative judgments to well known legal cases. The project aimed to consider how decisions might have been reached from a feminist perspective.
During the evening we considered the following cases:
Royal Bank of Scotland Plc v Etridge (No 2)
[2001] UKHL 44 - Presentation by Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (University of Reading)
Wilkinson v Kitzinger [2006] EWHC 2022 (Fam)
- Presentation by Dr Rosie Harding (Keele University)
R v A (No 2) [2001] UKHL 25
- Professor Clare McGlynn (University of Durham)
Group Head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution at Norton Rose, Deirdre Walker chaired questions following the presentations.
We were delighted to be co-chairing this important discussion on gender, sexuality and the law.
Daniel Winterfeldt & Laura Hodgson
Co-Chairs, The InterLaw Diversity Forum
Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) LGBT Judicial Outreach Event: September Meeting and Networking Drinks (Wednesday 21 September)
The InterLaw Diversity Forum monthly meeting on Wednesday 21 September was generously hosted by Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP.
We devoted our September meeting to considering issues for LGBT candidates for judicial appointment. This will be a practical outreach event run with the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) and will be of interest to anyone who may be considering a career on the bench.
The InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks has recently been working with the JAC to take steps to improve the LGBT diversity of judges.
In this session, attendees had the opportunity to receive expert advice and insight from speakers on the application procedure for the judiciary. We were delighted to welcome JAC’s Selection Manager Stuart Burrows, as well as a member of the judiciary.
As always, the meeting was followed by networking drinks and canapes and many thanks to Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP for generously hosting.
More coverage of the InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks Report on LGBT Judicial Diversity published last week! Many thanks to my co-author Les Moran and to Stephen Ward , Philip O Gorman and Laura Hodgson for helping with the launch and to Jonathan Leonhart for amazing editing and Stephen Manion for amazing design work!
Daniel k. Winterfeldt
Monthly Meeting Rotas for 2009, 2010 and 2011/12
Monthly meeting rota for 2011/12. NB: There are no monthly meetings for October and November 2011 due to our large number of events!
Monthly meeting rota for 2010.
Monthly meeting rota for 2009.
NB: Each meeting will be confirmed, along with details of times and exact location, by an e-mail from the InterLaw Diversity Forum.. All meetings will commence at 6:30 pm and will be followed by networking drinks unless the confirmation e-mail states otherwise.
Front of the Legal section of the Times for the launch of InterLaw Diversity Forum report http://t.co/p1IVzYD #LGBT #JudicialDiversity - 7 July
Improve Your Chances of Judicial Selection
A Practical Session for the LGBT candidate from the
Judicial Appointments Commission
The InterLaw Diversity Forum for LGBT Networks is working with the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) to assist them in taking the first steps forward for LGBT judicial diversity.
In this session, you will have the opportunity to receive advice and insight from speakers including JAC Commissioner, Hazel Genn, JAC’s Selection Manager, and Judge, Joanna Wade.
Please see here for additional details.
Date:
Monday 15 November 2010
Time:
18:00 arrival for 18:30 start
Location:
Ministry of Justice Building,
Lower Ground, 102 Petty France
London, SW1H 9AJ
Exclusive Outing to Tribes… a play by Nina Raine
“The play is astute about the nature of tribes…
Given its private jokes, incestuous squabbling and arrogant dismissal of
utsiders” ****
The Independent
“A beautifully judged, superbly acted production about people deaf to the needs of others”. ****
The Telegraph
Please join the InterLaw Diversity Forum for an evening performance of critically acclaimed Tribes at the Royal Court Theatre with exclusive stalls seating and reserved areas for networking drinks. This play by Nina Raine is a fascinating dissection of belonging, family and the limitations of communication.
Date:
Thursday 11 November 2010
Time:
19:00pm for pre-show drinks, performance starts at 19:30
Location:
Royal Court Theatre
Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS
The play follows the fiercely intelligent and proudly unconventional family of Billy, who are their own tiny empire, with their own private language, jokes and rules. You can be as rude as you like, as possessive as you like, as critical as you like. Arguments are an expression of love. But Billy, who is deaf, is one of the few who actually listens. Meeting Sylvia makes him finally want to be heard; can he get a word in edgeways? To view the trailer, please click here. Nina Raine won the Evening Standard Award and Critics Circle Award for Most Promising Playwright for her debut play Rabbit in 2006 and is also a director, recently directing Alia Bano’s Shades at the Royal Court Theatre.
Tickets for a best seat in the stalls reserved for the InterLaw Diversity Forum cost £25. We will also have a pre-show and interval drinks in the Balcony Bar and post-show drinks in the downstairs bar.
