Events
Innocence and Forgiveness, 7 March 2012
Speaker: Jennifer Thompson
Date: 7 March 2012
Time: 1.30 – 2.30 pm
Venue: Watershed Bristol
Jennifer Thompson, a native North Carolinian and mother of twenty one year old triplets, has become an outspoken opponent on the death penalty and speaks frequently about the need for judicial reform. Her strong convictions were born of a brutal rape she suffered as a twenty-two year old college student. It was her compelling testimony in that case that sent a young man to prison, not once, but twice, for a crime he did not commit. That man, Ronald Cotton, was eventually freed thanks in large part to his persistence in proclaiming his innocence and the development of sophisticated DNA tests. Jennifer credits Ronald with teaching her the healing power of forgiveness and grace. Together they successfully lobbied state legislators to change compensation laws for the wrongly convicted. She is now a member of the Actual Innocence Commission, advisory committee for Active Voices, member of the Constitution Project and Mother’s for Justice.
This event is organised by the Bristol Festival of Ideas in association with the Innocence Network UK (INUK), University of Bristol Law School and the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies.
The event is free, but booking is essential.
To book a place see: www.eventbrite.com/event/2909029987
Symposium on the Reform of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, 30 March 2012
Date: 30 March 2012
Time: 9.30 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: Norton Rose LLP, London
Confirmed speakers:
Paddy Hill (Birmingham Six)
Susan May
Eddie Gilfoyle
Chris Mullin (Ex-MP)
Bruce Kent (Chair, Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence)
Dr Michael Naughton (Founder and Chair, Innocence Network UK)
Gabe Tan (Executive Director, Innocence Network UK)
Russ Spring (West Midlands Against Injustice)
Mark George QC (Garden Court North)
Mark Newby (Solicitor Advocate, Jordans Solicitors)
Professor Michael Zander QC (Emeritus Professor, LSE and Member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice)
Laurie Elks (Ex-Commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission)
David Jessel (Ex-Commissioner of the Criminal Cases Review Commission)
Professor Richard Nobles (Queen Mary University, London)
Dr Eamonn O’Neill (Investigative Journalist, University of Strathclyde)
Booking details will be posted shortly.
INUK Spring Conference, 27 April 2012
We are grateful that Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is, again, supporting INUK by hosting this event.
It will be held at their London Office: City Place House 55 Basinghall Street London EC2V 5EH
For Maps & Directions, click here.
To book a place , click here.
Innocence Network Conference 2012
DATE: 30-31 March 2012
Kansas City
Information, registration and accommodation here.