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Birmingham Law Society Legal awards for 2023

As a member of the Birmingham Law Society, Karen Cooper Head of Law at Newman University, is delighted to have been a judge on the panel for the Birmingham Law Society Legal awards for 2023. The judges experienced independent individuals who are brought together from the world of law, business

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Law

Law students get membership to Birmingham Law Society

To support their studies this year Newman University has provided its Law students with membership of the Birmingham Law Society. This will enable students to benefit from being part of the local legal community. Students will be able to access a host of career development opportunities including attend the society’s

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Law students in Newman University court room.
Law

Law students have bespoke workshops from Alice Kinder

Newman law students have the opportunity to engage in a number of bespoke workshops over several weeks. In additional to usual classes, Law students have been able to attend 6, 2 hour bespoke workshops to help develop their employability skills and prepare them for future careers in law.  The workshops

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Michael Lane, Law Lecturer at Newman University presenting at the Civil Society Conference
Law

United Kingdom’s Universal Periodic Review

Michael Lane, the new Lecturer in Law at Newman University, recently presented his research at a Conference on the United Kingdom’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a UN forum for improving countries’ human rights records. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human

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Law

Divorce Day: The Law is Changing!

Divorce law as we know it is changing! 6th April 2022 or ‘Divorce Day’ as it has been commonly termed recently, is nearly upon us. The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 brings about major changes for divorce law in England and Wales however, these key changes do not come

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