Lord Judge to give Welsh Legal Affairs Annual Lecture
The Rt Hon The Lord Judge will give the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs Annual Lecture at Aberystwyth University on Thursday 1st November. Lord Judge’s lecture will be on “Advocacy Today” and will take place in lecture theatre C22 in the University’s Hugh Owen Building and starts at 7 pm. This will be the 12th annual lecture of the Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs, which was set up in 1999 to address Wales’s role in the post-devolution legal system. The Rt Hon The Lord Judge is the Head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales and a Fellow of Aberystwyth University. Born in Malta on 19 May 1941, Lord Judge is a graduate of Magdalene College, Cambridge where he studied History and Law. During his studies at Cambridge he entered the Hon Society of Middle Temple and was subsequently called to the Bar in 1963. Appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court in 1976, Lord Judge was appointed Queen’s Counsel (QC) in 1979. He was a member of the Senate of the Inns of Court and ...