We are delighted to announce our first ever St Patrick's Dinner from 7pm on 16 March 2023. 

The first release of tickets is now sold out. 

A donation from the sale of each ticket will be made to the London Irish Centre.

Venue: The Chartwell Ballroom The Churchill Hotel, Hyatt Regency, 30 Portman Square, London
Guest Speaker: There will be a short address from HHJ Angela Rafferty KC
Dress Code: Black tie

19:00 to 20:00 – Fizz, Craic & Ceol – Drinks reception with live traditional music
20:00 to 22:00 – Three course meal and wine*, coffee & petits fours
22:00 to 23:45 – Live band

Sponsors
This event has been made possible through generous contributions from a number of sponsors:
Equals Money (Music Sponsor) – currency exchange and fintech payment services company
KLDiscovery - eDiscovery solutions 
TrialView - a digital platform for litigation and dispute resolution
Phillip Lee - Dublin law firm
QEB Hollis Whiteman Chambers – London set of barristers' chambers
Robert Walter Recruitment UK and Ireland – international recruitment agency
Tughans (Drinks Sponsor) – Belfast law firm
YourIrishShop . com (goody bag sponsor) - online Irish food retailer

The Executive Committee is delighted to invite you to start the St Patrick’s Day celebrations early this year.

LILA’s first social event of 2022, kindly sponsored by Peters & Peters, is being held at 26 Furnival Street from 7:30pm on Wednesday 16 March 2022.

The event will follow on from the official relaunch of our Mentoring Programme, and will be a great opportunity to meet this year’s participants. Wine, beer, soft drinks, and finger food will be provided.

*THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT*

The London Irish Lawyers Association is pleased to invite you to the last event in its "Northern Ireland’s Road to Rights" series to mark Northern Ireland’s centenary in 2021. This webinar -"The Advent of Reproductive Rights in Northern Ireland"- will trace the recent history of legislative, social and policy reform in the sphere of reproductive rights in Northern Ireland, including the effect of key pronouncements by the UK Supreme Court and Northern Ireland’s High Court, and the slow but sure social and political progress towards the realization of reproductive rights in Northern Ireland.

We are delighted to be joined by an eminent panel of experts in the field: Fiona Bloomer (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Ulster University); Emma Campbell (Academic and Activist with the Alliance for Choice Abortion Rights Campaign); Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers); and Leah Hoctor (Regional Director for Europe at the Center for Reproductive Rights).

RSVP Webinar

RSVP On-Demand Recording

The Executive Committee is delighted to invite you to the London Irish Lawyers Association Summer Garden Party, being held in the medicinal garden* of the Royal College of Physicians from 6pm on Tuesday 21 September 2021.

The event is kindly supported by McCann Fitzgerald and will be an opportunity to catch up with friends old and new after such a long time apart.

Pizza from RCP’s sustainably-fired pizza oven, ice cream/sorbet and unlimited beer, wine and soft drinks are included in the ticket price.

Proceeds from the event will go towards funding RCP’s work, including improving care for patients and promoting better healthcare for the public. We are sure our members will agree this is a worthy cause to support at the present time, and we encourage you to invite guests to this event.

Dress code: Business attire / smart casual

Spaces for this event are capped and a limited number of early bird tickets are available. Tickets are non-refundable but are transferrable should the date of the event have to change.

TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA EVENTBRITE: HERE

Contact us by email with any questions: contact@londonirishlawyers.co.uk

*In case of inclement weather, indoor cover is available

14:00 Wed 30 June: On its 100th birthday, is Northern Ireland working?

We are excited to announce two further talks in June, as part of our series of events aimed at reflecting on human rights developments against the backdrop of Northern Ireland’s centenary. Each talk is being hosted by Mishcon de Reya LLP, and will be an opportunity to hear from some fascinating and engaging speakers - please sign up below, through the Mishcon de Reya website.

100 years on from its creation, we look at how well or otherwise NI's political structure, economy, education and culture is functioning; as well as how it is wrestling with current issues such as equality, justice, Brexit and identity. We are pleased to have two exceptional speakers for this discussion: Sam McBride, one of the NI's foremost investigative journalists, authors and political editors, alongside Claire Hanna MP, one of NI's most prominent politicians.

Book your place on this webinar here

15:00 Wed 16 June: NI at 100: Road to Rights - Defeating Criminalisation

We are excited to announce two further talks in June, as part of our series of events aimed at reflecting on human rights developments against the backdrop of Northern Ireland’s centenary. Each talk is being hosted by Mishcon de Reya LLP, and will be an opportunity to hear from some fascinating and engaging speakers - please sign up below, through the Mishcon de Reya website.

Our next event will be an interview with Jeff Dudgeon MBE, the claimant behind the European Court of Human Rights case which successfully challenged NI's laws criminalising consensual sexual acts between men in private. It was simultaneously the first time that the court found in favour of LGBT+ rights. We will be discussing with Jeff his involvement in this landmark case, and his perspective on how gay rights have evolved in Northern Ireland.

Book your place on this webinar here

LILA is pleased to host its first webinar in a series of events aimed at marking Northern Ireland’s centenary year. The series, ‘Northern Ireland’s Road to Rights’, will be an opportunity to reflect on human rights developments in the north of Ireland over the past century, as well as the challenges that lie ahead as Northern Ireland’s place within the UK, the island of Ireland, and Europe continues to be hotly debated.

The first event will be a webinar and discussion with Professor Colin Harvey of Queens University, on the topic of a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland at 18:00 on Thursday 18 March 2021.

The event will be an opportunity to consider the Bill of Rights in the context of ongoing discussions of constitutional change and the right to self-determination in the north of Ireland. As post-Brexit Northern Ireland faces a future without some of the safeguards it previously enjoyed, the issue of human rights and how best to protect them has never been more relevant.

To register and receive an invite to the webinar, please email contact@londonirishlawyers.co.uk

Attendees are encouraged to email questions in advance. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions during the event.

Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law, Queen’s University Belfast and a former Head of the School of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre. He has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan, Fordham University, and the LSE. Professor Harvey was a member of the REF2014 Law sub-panel and the REF2014 Equality and Diversity Advisory Panel. He has served as a Commissioner on the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, and as a member of the Northern Ireland Higher Education Council. He is a member of the Academic Panel at Doughty Street Chambers, a Senior Research Associate at the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University of London and has taught on the George Washington University – Oxford University Summer Programme on International Human Rights Law, and the Master’s in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University. He is on the editorial boards of Human Rights Law Review, European Human Rights Law Review and Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and is the Series Editor of Human Rights Law in Perspective.