Upcoming events
16 October 2024
Experts Symposium
The Family Justice Council Experts Sub-Committee will hold an Experts Symposium on 16 October in Cardiff (near City Centre), following on from the successful Birmingham Symposium in 2022. This event is for judiciary, medical professionals, medical students, legal practitioners, social workers and allied professions.
Event date: Wednesday 16 October, 09.45am-4.30pm [Registration from 09.45am]
Location: Cardiff or remotely via MS Teams
Sir Andrew McFarlane, President of the Family Division and Chair of the Family Justice Council will provide the opening address and the event will be hosted by Mr Justice David Williams, High Court judge and Chair of the FJC Experts in the Family Justice System Working Group. The aim of the symposium is both to provide an opportunity to undertake training in subjects of interests to experts, would-be experts and legal professionals but also to review progress in implementing the 22 Recommendations of the President’s Working Group Report and to chart a way forward to continue that process.
The programme will include presentations on the Suspected Inflicted Head Injury Service Pilot (SIHIS), Experts and transparency, Trauma Informed Practice, Updates to the Purple book, and Developments in Welsh medium medical training.
If you are interested in attending please speak to your Leadership Judge before applying.
Applications:
To apply to attend in-person or online, please complete the application form.
To apply to attend in-person please complete the form by 25 September 2024. Attendance in-person will be on an allocation only basis and places are limited. Those that are allocated an in-person space will be provided with the venue details directly.
To register to attend online please complete the form by 10 October 2024.
The FJC will aim to confirm a place for in-person attendance by 2 October and will send online joining instructions for those registered on 14 October 2024.
There will be no charge for attending this event and lunch will be provided.