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P R E S I D E N T ' S
W E L C O M E
Dear members,
I hope you all have had a wonderful winter break and a great start to the term! I am extremely excited to share this term card with you. CULS has so much to be proud of (and to look forward to) as the CULS Committee 2022-23 enter their final term in tenure.
Last term, we hosted CULS' first in-person foreign exchange since pre-pandemic. This connected Cambridge students to students at the University of Malta. Our brand new Diversity & Inclusion Department truly made its mark on the society and has exciting events planned for this term. Our 121st Law Ball, hosted at the beautiful Madingley Hall, was filled with plenty of celebrations, dancing and fun, after what was an intense Michaelmas Term
As we enter into Lent Term, there is so much more to be excited about. We have exciting speaker events with guests including CULS' Honorary President and Former President of the Supreme Court Baroness Hale, Sir Nick Green, Chair of the Law Commission and more We also have exciting and diverse social and welfare events for members to get involved in. Our Careers Department have an array of events ranging from Citizens Advice, dispute resolution, student advice panels on tripos and applications, and more. Following on from the success of last term's Law Ball, CULS' Lent Gala committee are planning and organising our Annual Lent Gala and launch party, so keep an eye out for details to come.
We also have our Alumni Dinner coming up, where members can connect and learn from our alumni who have gone on to pursue a range of impressive careers, and where alumni can rekindle memories of being in Cambridge.
Furthermore, Lord Sales will be presenting awards to our members for their Pro Bono achievements at our Pro Bono awards We have also partnered up with the Oxford Law Society for our Varsity Dinner and Varsity Moot. There are so many more events and initiatives happening this term, and there simply isn't enough space for me to list them all on this welcome page, so please do have a read of the rest of this term card and get involved.
As I enter my final term as President, I would like to say a huge thank you to the CULS Committee It has been an absolute pleasure working with each and every one of you I am so proud of everything that CULS has achieved this year and these achievements would not have been possible without the committee's dedication to the society. I would also like to thank our sponsors for their generous support of our society and for contributing so much effort into supporting our members' journeys into the legal field Last but certainly not least, I would like to thank our members for all of your support, it has been a true honour to serve as your President for 2022-23.
I hope you all have a great term and I hope to see lots of you at the many events that CULS has planned this term!
Best wishes,
Sophia Nie CULS President 2022-23
COMMITTEE 2022 - 23
Alumni Relations Officers
Katie Adamson
Gabby Butler
President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer
Sophia Nie Kapri Belentepe Rohan Odedra Mahera Sarkar
Christina Lawrence
Jason Parmajit Singh
Foreign Affairs Secretaries
Charlotte Faulkner
Pearl Pui Ka Ng
Huang Rui Yang, Jean
Gabriel Kang Ren Yap
Non-Law Representatives
Oluwasikemi Adetola
Eleonora Guaschi
Sophia Wiginton
Pro Bono Coordinators
Willy Wai Yan Oo (Head)
Lee Wen Hao Eugene
Tanvi Sengupta
Amelia Quince
Welfare Officers
George Ponton
Erin Bakhtiari
Georgia Finucane
Careers Secretaries
Vivek Bilous
Anjali Govindan
Moses Law
Tasnia Khan
Per Incuriam Editorial Team
Kimberley Andrews (EiC)
Claudia Chan
Ellie Hargrove
Natalie Wen Hui Tan
Membership Secretaries
Yeo Zhi Kai
Lim Yan Xun Luke
Social Secretaries
Giovanna Goulart
Jonathan Teng
Diversity & Inclusion Officer
Sakshi Jha
Mistress/Masters of Moots
Beth Doherty
Oliver Friend-Smith
Medhansh Kumar
Stash Officers
Rosie Sorzano Gilbert
Alicia Moyo
Michalis Kasoulides
Publicity Secretaries
Heather Bellamy
Kassandra Caldicott
Tian Nan Gabrielle Luk
Speakers Secretaries
Archie Gent
Marcus Choy
Archie Phillips
Webmasters
Arjun Sharma
Rajapriyan Murugaiyan
Lent Gala
Kerry Lui (President)
Aroun Kalyana (Vice-President)
Creative Officers
Louisa Herbert
Connor Hall
S O C I A L S
A L S
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PUB GOLF SOCIAL TIVOLI
25TH JANUARY
COFFEE AND CAKES WITH HOGAN LOVELLS
MICHAELHOUSE CAFE 26TH JANUARY
DREAMY DESSERTS
HEAVENLY DESSERTS
1ST FEBRUARY
15TH FEBRUARY S O C
LENT GALA LAUNCH
STOLEN AND LIQUOR LOFT
COFFEE AND CAKE WITH CULS
REGENT STREET
8TH FEBRUARY
AN EVENING WITH FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER
LOCATION: TBA 22ND FEBRUARY
CULS X MEDSOC SWAP TA BOUCHE
23RD FEBRUARY
CULS JAZZ NIGHT LA RAZA
1ST MARCH
S O C I A L S
COFFEE AND CAKES WITH CULS
LOCATION: TBA
7TH MARCH
COLLEGE BAR CRAWL
10TH MARCH
GRILL AND CHILL
SMOKEWORKS
14TH MARCH
THE VARSITY DINNER WITH OXFORD LAW SOCIETY NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT
DATE: TBA
W E L F A R E
KRISPY KREME DROP IN Squire Law Library
30th January, 11am-2pm
VALENTINE'S DAY CHOCOLATES
Delivered to Colleges
13th February
DOG THERAPY
Grafton Centre
W/C 20th February
WYOGA SESSION
Newnham College Old Labs
W/C 6th March
C A R E E R S
DISPUTES AND INVESTIGATIONS WITH SLAUGHTER AND MAY Newnham College 23rd January
FIRST YEAR SCHEME STUDENT PANEL
Squire Law Library 27th January
SECURING A VACATION SCHEME AND TRAINING CONTRACT
Location: TBA 16th February
BUILDING COMMERCIAL AWARENESS
Location: TBA 24th February SQE VS LPC, WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW Online 2pm-3pm, 31st January
Online 27th February
ALTERNATIVE CAREERS
PANEL
Location: TBA 9th March
SECONDMENT PANEL
Online 13th March
CITIZENS ADVICE PANEL
Location and date: TBA
COMMERCIAL AWARENESS INITIATIVES
Look out on our social media for our commercial awareness newsletter and commercial definitions of the week...
THEME REVEAL 15TH FEBRUARY 1 2 1 S T L E N
16TH MARCH
D I V E R S I T Y & I N C L U S I O N
D I V E R S I T Y & I N C L U S I O N
Novi
6.30PM-8,30PM, 24th January
DAIQUIRIS WITH D&I
La Raza 8PM, 7th February A DISCUSSION WITH IMRAN KHAN
KC: THE 'STEPHEN LAWRENCE' LAWYER
Location TBA 9th March COCKTAILS AND CANAPÉS WITH MACFARLANES
S P E A K E R S
A K E R S
S P E
BARONESS HALE
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, studied Law at Girton College Cambridge. She then went on to become a judge in the Family Division of the High Court of Justice and was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1999 became only the second woman to be appointed to the Court of Appeal. In 2004, she joined the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, becoming the only woman to have been appointed to that position. In 2017, Baroness Hale was then appointed to serve as the President of the Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to serve in the role.
Baroness Hale has had significant influence in the development of English law across a wide range of areas, having an impact on the lives of millions of women, men and children. Baroness Hale has ruled on many cases which form the foundations of the law tripos here at Cambridge University. For example, she was instrumental in the ruling on whether the government had the power by itself to invoke Article 50 of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty.
Baroness Hale also has been the Honorary President of the Cambridge University Law Society since 2015.
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College Friday 3rd March, 12pm-1pm
K E R S
AS P E
SIR NICK GREEN
Sir Green is the current Chair of the Law Commission for England and Wales. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1986. He was appointed a judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) in 2013, and was then awarded the customary knighthood in the 2014 Special Honours. In 2018, he was promoted to the Court of Appeal and received the customary appointment to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in the same year. As current Chair of the Law Commission, Sir Green will be discussing how the role of law reform has changed since the Commission’s inception, and the significance of its longevity despite significant challenges.
LG17, Law Faculty 6-7pm, 2nd February
A K E R S SHAUN WALLACE
S P E
Shaun Wallace was called to the bar in 1984. Although a criminal barrister by trade, he has also found fame as a successful quizzer, winning Mastermind in 2004 and featuring as a ‘chaser’, nicknamed the ‘The Dark Destroyer’, in the ITV quiz show The Chase. Shaun vocally supported the CBA’s industrial action last year, speaking on the picket line outside the Royal Courts of Justice.
Wallace is a part-time lecturer and visits schools, colleges and other institutions to educate students on aspects of law
Location: Harrod's Room, Emmanuel College
Date: TBA
K E R S
AS P E
ANNUAL DEBATE
CULS' Annual Debate 2023, will be centred on Human Rights, in particular the 'Bill of Rights' Bill.
Come and join us for what will be an incredibly interesting debate, with leading academics, Dr Stevie Martin and Dr Stephanie Palmer.
Dr Stevie Martin
Dr Martin is a Lecturer in Public Law at the Law Faculty and a Fellow/ByeFellow at Fitzwilliam and King’s Colleges After qualifying as a lawyer in Australia, Stevie spent several years working as a legal associate in the Supreme Court of Queensland and the Family Court of Australia
In addition to presenting at international conferences on the topic of assisted suicide, Stevie has also published a number of articles on the topic and has written on medical law more generally, including medical treatment of children She is the one of the general editors of the European Human Rights Law Review and one of authors of Hughes, Martin, and Palmer, Human Rights Law (Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press 2023).
Dr Stephanie Palmer
Dr Palmer lectures and supervises in Human Rights Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law and Medical Law and Life Sciences. She is currently supervising doctoral theses on a range of public law and human rights topics. She is a Fellow at Girton College where she is a Director of Studies and a barrister at Blackstone Chambers, London She is on the editorial board of the European Human Rights Law Review and was one of the first editors of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I*CON). She is also a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre and a member of the Centre for Public Law and the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Science
Location and date TBA
N O N - L A W
Non-Law Bottomless Brunch
Las Iguanas 11am-1pm, 4th February
Non-Law Careers in the Bar
Online Panel 6th March
Non-Law Coffee and Cakes
Fitzbillies 3pm, 28th February
P R O B O N O
AMICUS FUNDRAISING FORMAL HALL
Churchill College
17th February
CAMBRIDGE X LSE X UCL PRO BONO COLLABORATION PANEL
Online streaming or in-person at the Marshall Building, LSE 15th March
CAMBRIDGE PRO BONO AWARDS
KEEP UP TO DATE WITH CULS PRO BONO ON ITS FACEBOOK PAGE AND LOOK OUT FOR 'PRO BONO PUBLICO' ON THE NEXT EDITION OF PER INCURIAM P R O B O N O
Hosted with White & Case, to celebrate the incredible pro-bono work of students. Awards will be presented by Lord Sales and the Cambridgeshire Law Society. Gonville Hotel 8th March
A L U M N I
ALUMNI-STUDENT DINNER
When : Thursday 2nd March 2023
Where : Gonville Hotel
This will be an opportunity for our current members to glean an insight into the amazing careers of some of our alumni, whilst also offering alumni the chance to rekindle some fond memories of their own time at Cambridge.
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT SERIES
Our alumni have gone on to achieve truly amazing things in their careers. This term we will be posting weekly interviews with our inspiring alumni so keep an eye out for them on our socials and website.
F O R E I G N
A F F A I R S
F A I R S
F
AF O R E I G N
Our successful collaboration with the Malta Law Students' Society (GħSL) has made our in-person exchange possible again. Following CULS' exchange trip to Malta last December, we are thrilled to be hosting our GħSL counterparts in Cambridge during Lent Term.
Our Foreign Affairs Department are also seeking to expand CULS' network of partner universities to bring more opportunities for in-person and virtual exchanges to CULS members.
M O O T I N G
Cambridge mooters are invited to compete against representatives from UCL
The 3VB is an advanced team moot sponsored by 3 Verulam Buildings This year both the semi-final and final will be judged by barristers from 3VB, making this a great opportunity for aspiring barristers
Cambridge mooters are invited to compete against representatives from Durham.
This is a team moot sponsored by Atkin Chambers. This year, the final will be held in Cambridge and will be judged by members of this prestigious set.
Fledglings is for first time mooters The final will be judged by Quadrant Chambers and spectators are welcome.
Cambridge mooters are invited to compete against representatives from the LSE
This speed moot is sponsored by Serle Court and does not require any legal knowledge or material, other than what is provided on the
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