COMMUNITY EVENTS

• 2024 Thu 28 Nov 5-730pm, Securing Health in a Changing Climate: The Indo-Pacific Perspective.  His Excellency Professor Hon Stephen Smith, High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom, together with the Board of the Fred Hollows Foundation UK, cordially invite you to a fireside chat with Dr Carole Poloso and the Fred Hollows Foundation. Please register for this exclusive event at Australia House via the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjV0ROuSPlKl-JCOjn7i2QIvF6S5RHwu9UDJPym5EmVs6Vig/viewform
• 2024 13-15 Nov (full days) – American Bar Association (ABA) International Law Section 2024 Fall Conference at Inner and Middle Temples, early bird rates before 1 Oct 2024 available to attend this three day conference ‘100 Years of the ABA in the United Kingdom: Tradition, Innovation and Influence’ – Details and registration at https://events.americanbar.org/event/7C151CB2-3D51-4B62-97D6-50C9AB6E23A7/summary
• 2024 Tue 3 Sep (630-830pm) – For those who enjoyed (or missed) wine industry leader Robin Davis from SWIG Wines at the AALS’ wine tasting earlier this month, SWIG Wines is offering an AALS discount on their Late Summer Wine Tasting on Tue 3 Sep at Crypt on the Green, Clerkenwell (close to Farringdon Station) 630-830pm. With over 50 wines for an informal, walk around/pour yourself tasting, the £40 tickets are selling fast, offered to AALS members at £30 with friends welcome. Register for the 3 Sep wine tasting here using code AALS for the discounted ticket price https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swig-late-summer-tasting-tickets-921464062817 Email robin@swig.co.uk with any questions or to get on SWIG’s mailing list. Enjoy!
• 2024 Fri 9 Feb (630-10pm) – The New Zealand Society Waitangi Charity Ball, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, tickets £145-£180 plus booking fee – join the New Zealand Society for an evening supporting the Society’s Charitable Grant Scheme with a sparkling wine reception, traditional Maori kapa haka, a three-course New Zealand dinner, free-flowing New Zealand wines and beer, with great music by Ngāti Rānana, Jonathan Fa’afetai Lemalu ONZM and New Zealand artists Jayson Norris Trio. Tickets available at: https://www.nzsociety.co.uk/events/2024-02-09-waitangi-charity-ball-2024-waldorf-hilton
• 2023 Wed 28 Feb (6-7pm) – An Elizabethan Mystery: The Lever Canon Law Manuscript, open Lecture at the Temple Church, Inner Temple, 1 Inner Temple Lane, by Norman Doe DCL LLD FRHistS Professor of Law at Cardiff University, Academic Bencher Inner Temple and Chancellor of the Diocese of Bangor. Events – Temple Church
• 2023 Mon 20 Feb (6-730pm) – The Social Context of the Law: Global Responses to the Forcibly Displaced, Freedom of Movement or Control by Numbers? Whose Rights, whose Duties? Online and Inner Temple Theatre with Professor Gillian Triggs (Assistant High Commissioner for Protection at the UN High Commission for Refugees); Hon Alexander Downer AC (Australian High Commissioner to the UK 2014-2018); Moderator Sir Geoffrey Nice KC (formerly UNICTY). Non-member tickets £11.75 available at https://www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=EVT01438
• 2022 Mon 10 Oct (6-7pm) – Human Rights in Britain and France from Thomas Becket to the French Revolution, by Sir Michael Tugendhat (Honorary Professor of Law, University of Leicester, Inner Temple Bencher), Inner Temple History Society. Tickets £11.75(inperson);free(online);bookhttps://www.innertemple.org.uk/events/?id=EVT01313 or call 020 7797 8264.
• 2022 Thu 16 Jun (630-830pm) – The Next 100 Years’ Heilbron Lecture and tour of the Old Bailey, with Professor Lavanya Rajamani on the theme of “Nature” in this centenary year of women’s qualification at the English Bar and into the solicitors’ profession. Tickets available: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centenary-summer-party-and-the-heilbron-lectures-2022-tickets-331119014887
• 2022 Sat 28 May (2-5pm) – Memorial Service for Professor James Crawford: A memorial service for renowned international law professor and Australia’s appointee to the International Court of Justice, Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge CB5 8BL. Details and registration available on Jesus College’s webpage at  https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/events/memorial-service-professor-james-crawford
• 2022 Mon 23 May (615pm) – Reconnection, The Australia House Ensemble’s opening concert of 2022,Exhibition Hall, Australia House, with the AHE playing music by Australian composers and others. Tickets £25 includes a glass of wine on arrival. This concert is part of the UK/Australia Season of Culture.
• 2022 Fri/Sat 1/2 Apr (9am-9pm) – Seventh Cambridge Arbitration Days: Contemporary Issues in International Arbitration, University of Cambridge, to its members (most events free of charge): Register here:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoyQpYPSzU5wWuLfb7mC98Wx9Fe-mdxZ4KW4GcektVLr-UTg/viewform Details including events and speakers at https://www.cuarb.uk/cambridge-arbitration-day/ or https://www.facebook.com/CUArb1.
• 2022 Fri 11 Feb (6-7 pm) – A FANZA Classica Performance with mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean (Australia), baritone Kieran Rayner (New Zealand) and pianist/composer Joseph Havlat (Australia), St Mary-at-Hill church (nearest tube: Monument). Tickets £10-25 available hereFANZA Classica performance Tickets, Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
• 2022 Mon 24 Jan (1130am) – The 2022 Arthur Phillip Commemoration Service. With support from BASET (The Britain-Australia Society Education Trust), the Service will be conducted by the Britain-Australia Society Chaplain, the Reverend George Bush with an address by Dr Tim Causer, FRHistS, Senior Research Fellow, Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London. Following the Service, a two-course lunch will be served in the Church crypt at The Café Below. Tickets £40 pp.  Book your tickets here. (Please note spaces are strictly limited)
• 2022 Mon 10 Jan (7pm) – Reconnection: A concert of Australian and other music at the Australian High Commission Exhibition Hall. Tickets £25.00. Click here to book tickets http://www.australiahouse-ensemble.com
• 2021 Wed 23 Jun (6-8 pm) – The British-Australian Society President’s Reception: The Chairman of the British-Australian Society and the Australian High Commissioner request the pleasure of your company at a Reception with our President Lord Hague of Richmond at the High Commissioner’s Residence, Stoke Lodge, 45 Hyde Parke Gate, London SW7 5DU. Tickets on sale shortly. Priority for B-AS Members. To become a B-AS Member click here.B-AS Members £55 – Non-Members £65.
• 2021 Thu 15th Apr (6-8pm) –The Society of English and American Lawyers (SEAL) invites you to an evening with the Rt Hon Lady Arden of Heswall DBE, Justice of the UK Supreme Court addressing: The Importance of Dialogue: International Judicial Dialogue and the Contribution of Women to the Judiciary. Opening interview by Dana Denis-Smith, founder of the First 100 Years project memorialising women’s first 100 years in law in the UK, followed by Lady Arden’s address. REGISTER HERE