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MONDAY 15th March 2010 ***************************** "TRENDS IN CROSS BORDER INSOLVENCY LAW" http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/law/news/outlook.php?id=436 Centre of European Law Public Lecture (KCL), Trends in cross border insolvency law by Professor Christoph Paulus, Professor for Civil Law, Procedural Law, Insolvency Law and ancient Legal History, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Humboldt University; Berlin Consultant to the Worldbank and the International Monetary Fund (both Washington DC) Date: Today, Monday 15th March Time: 18.15 - 20.00 Venue: room S-1.06 (1B.06), King's College London, Strand WC2R 2LS The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception in the large Somerset Room. To reserve a place contact: christine.copping@kcl.ac.uk **************************** TUESDAY 16th March 2010 **************************** "BEYOND COPENHAGEN" ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (LSE) Date: Tuesday 16 March 2010 Time: 12.30-2pm Venue: LSE, Old Theatre, Old Building Speaker: Professor Lord Stern Chair: Professor Stuart Corbridge Nicholas Stern is IG Patel professor of economics and government at LSE and chairman of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 6043. If you are planning to attend this event and would like details on how to get here and what time to arrive, please refer to Coming to an event at LSE http://www2.lse.ac.uk/ERD/conferenceAndEventsOffice/comingToAnEventAtLSE.aspx ++++++++++ "SMILE DIPLOMACY AT WORK: CHINA'S QUEST FOR ENERGY IN CENTRAL ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST" The Middle East Research Group Seminar (KCL) Speaker: Dr Ella Akerman (Wood Mackenzie Limited) Chair: Professor Rory Miller (Middle East & Mediterranean Studies,King’s College London) Date: Tuesday 16 March, Time: 6 pm Venue: The Council Room, King's College, Strand WC2R 2LS All welcome! +++++++++++++++ "PARTNERSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT WITHIN A COUNTER-TERRORISM CONTEXT BETWEEN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES AND THE POLICE" (Faith and Policy Seminar) Date: Tuesday 16th March 2010 Time: 17.30-19.00 Speaker: Dr Basia Spalek, Senior Lecturer in Community Justice Studies, University of Birmingham Venue: King's College, The Old Committee Room (3c), Strand WC2R 2LS (just along from the chapel) Map: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/strand.html Basia Spalek is the principle investigator of an AHRC sponsored research project entitled: 'An Examination of Partnership Approaches to Challenging Religiously-Endorsed Violence involving Muslim Groups and Police'. As well as numerous articles on the theme of counter-terrorism policy, Dr Spalek's books include: Counter-terrorism: community-based approaches to preventing terror crime (forthcoming); Reader in Ethnicity & Crime (Open University Press); with F.Hussein & S.Crabtree, Islam & Social Work: International Perspectives & Practice Issues (Bristol: Policy Press); Communities, Identities and Crime (Bristol: Policy Press); and Crime Victims: theory, policy and practice (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan). ********************************** WEDNESDAY 17TH MARCH 2010 ********************************** UCL INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS Screening of the documentary 'Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo'followed by Q&A session and discussion. Speakers: Omar Deghayes (former prisoner), Andy Worthington (journalist/director) & Philippe Sands QC (Professor of International Law, UCL) A few free tickets left. Sign up is through the link below:http://guantanamo.eventbrite.com/ Date: Wednesday 17 March Time: 6-8pm Venue: Windeyer Edward Lewis LT, 46 CLEVELAND STREET, LONDON W1P 6DB +++++++++ "THE LIB DEMS FORM A GOVERNMENT! WHAT HAPPENS TO HUMAN RIGHTS?" Human Rights Lawyers' Association event - The HRLA is hosting a series of events with the front bench Justice spokesmen from the main political parties. This week the speaker is from the Liberal Democrats. Date: Weds 17 March 2010 Time: 6.30 - 7.30pm (refreshments available from 6pm!) Speaker: David Howarth, MP Venue: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, 28 Tudor Street (just by the entrance to Inner Temple), London EC4Y OBQ David Howarth MP, Justice spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, will explain his vision for human rights protection in the UK should the Lib Dems form the Government after the General Election. This interactive session will offer plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion. If you have a question that you want to be put to David Howarth, please send it to Jonathan Cooper (HRLA’s chair): j.cooper@doughtystreet.co.uk by Tuesday 16 March. The HRLA committee will then select which questions will be asked. Each question will be attributed. Please do not send them anonymously. Questions will also be taken from the floor. Probably already fully booked but contact Aaron in case there are any places left: ADolan@barcouncil.org.uk ******************************** THURSDAY 18TH MARCH 2010 ******************************** "DISTRUST: OUR FEAR OF TRUSTS IN THE COMMERCIAL WORLD" Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Programme School of Arts & Humanities (UCL) - Inaugural Lecture Speaker: Professor Rob Chambers, UCL Time: 6pm (Thursday) Venue: UCL Central Campus Accredited with 1 CPD hour by the SRA and Bar Standards Board Free of charge and open to the public http://clp-2010-chambers-lawswebsite.eventbrite.com/ +++++++++++++ EUROPE AS A GLOBAL ACTOR? A CONVERSATION WITH JAVIER SOLANA LSE Global Governance public discussion Date: Thursday 18 March 2010 Time: 1.05-2.30pm Venue: LSE, Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building Speaker: Javier Solana Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor After ten years of serving as EU High Representative for CFSP, Javier Solana reflects on the achievements and challenges ahead for Europe as a global security actor with Professor Mary Kaldor. Javier Solana is a Senior Visiting Professor at the LSE Global Governance. He was formerly the Secretary General of the Council of the EU and EU High Representative for CSFP (October 1999 - December 2009). Prior to that, he was the Secretary General of NATO from 1995 – 1999. He is a former physics professor and long time Spanish cabinet member. This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 6043. If you are planning to attend this event and would like details on how to get here and what time to arrive, please refer to Coming to an event at LSE http://www2.lse.ac.uk/ERD/conferenceAndEventsOffice/comingToAnEventAtLSE.aspx ****************************** FRIDAY 19TH MARCH 2010 ****************************** "THE INTERPRETATION OF CONVENTION RIGHTS:UNIVERSAL STANDARDS OR NATIONAL APPLICATION?" Institute of Human Rights (UCL) Speakers: Judge Christos Rozakis, Vice President of the European Court of Human Rights, Professor Steven Greer, Professor of Human Rights, University of Bristol. Time: 6pm Venue: UCL Central Campus Accredited with 1 CPD hour by the SRA and Bar Standards Board Free of charge and open to the public Book here: http://hr-review.eventbrite.com/ ******************************** SATURDAY 20TH MARCH 2010 ******************************** "NEW TECHNOLOGIES: YOUR LIFE? YOUR HEALTH? YOUR PRIVACY? OUR HUMAN RIGHTS" Nottingham's Annual Student Human Rights Conference http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/events/annualstudentconference.aspx Download the brochure http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/hrlc/documents/studentconference2010/studenthumanrightsconferenceposter.pdf COST: £25 - this includes lunch and refreshments! Please contact Amy Weatherburn or the organisers if you want to go. HumanRightsConference@nottingham.ac.uk

 

ELSA Roadtrip 09

What happens in the 'Dam, stays in the 'Dam ...

ELSA  roadtrips are open  to everyone, not just law students! For the Amsterdam trip we will be leaving London from outside TEMPLE station on Thursday night (prob. about 10pm). Therefore you will only miss Friday from uni / work. We will be travelling by coach down to Dover where we will take the ferry to Calais. From Calais we will drive through the night, passing through France and Belgium before arriving in Amsterdam about 10am Friday morning. You are advised to catch some zzzs during this journey so that you can make the most of your time in A'dam. For the insomniacs there will be DVDs played on the coach (if you have some good films or cds, feel free to bring them!) When we get to A'dam we will leave our bags at the hostel storage room and then everyone is free to get breakfast, go sightseeing,  visit a coffee shop or whatever else. You will then return to the hostel  about 2pm, where the ELSA rep will give you your room keys so that you can put your bags in your room. Optional extras offered by the travel company (Outgoing Ltd) are (a) the pub-crawl  through Leidseplein and (b) the  disco at Dansen bij Jansen.  However, you are completely free to do your thing. There are 45 places available on the coach.

Book your ticket here  enter the group code elsadam09

 

VISA info

 

If you hold a British/EU/Swiss or EEA (Iceland, Leichtenstein and Norway) passport, you do not need a visa to travel to The Netherlands.

Likewise, if you are from the following countries you do not need a visa for this trip:

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Monaco, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, San Marino, Singapore, South Korea, USA, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela

Unfortunately, if your passport is not from one of the countries mentioned above you will require a Schengen Visa to visit the Netherlands. Please arrange an appointment with Visa Processing Centre which is located in central London.

Click here for for a list of countries which require a visa

More info is available from the Visa Application Centre website

CHARGES
If you are an ELSA member, we can provide a support letter. If successful, you will NOT have to pay the visa fee (£60 or £30) but you will have to pay the processing fee (£24).


COUNTRIES WITH A VISA FACILITATION AGREEMENT WITH THE EU

• Russia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and Moldova.

The Schengen visa handling fee amounts to €35 (approximately £30) for nationals from countries that have concluded, or are in the process of concluding, a visa facilitation agreement with the European Union.

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NETHERLANDS VISA APPLICATION CENTRE
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Netherlands Visa Application Centre
1-8 Bateman's Building
South Soho Square
London W1D 3EN

 

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All applications must be made in person between 8:30-12:00pm.

The Netherlands Visa Application Centre will accept applications only by appointment.

Only clients living in the Greater London area can apply at the Netherlands Visa Application Centre.

The application centre's helpline number is 0871 376 0023 (line open from 8:30 to 17:30 Monday-Friday).