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JUSTICE 'Career Converations' Webinar Series

We are delighted to invite you to our final members-only webinar in the Career Conversations series, from 1-2pm on Wednesday 28 October. Over the course of this series you have had the opportunity to hear from a range of excellent speakers from the JUSTICE membership, sharing their various paths into and through the law.

Our final conversation will be with Dean Kingham, who serves on the JUSTICE Council.

Dean is head of prison, public law and crime at Swain and Co Solicitors and is one of the country’s leading prison and parole lawyers. Having initially qualified as a barrister, Dean cross qualified as a solicitor in 2005. His work involves representing individuals before the Parole Board, applications to the Court of Appeal and to the Criminal Cases Review Commission, and judicial review claims.

Dean represents some of the most vulnerable people in the prison estate, including Trans prisoners and prisoners with mental health problems. He has also acted on behalf of some of the country’s most high profile offenders, including John Worboys and Harry Roberts.

Dean is a Committee Member of the Association of Prisoner Lawyers and sits on both the Parole Board user group and Criminal Cases Review Commission user group. He is vice chairman of Progressing Prisoners Maintaining Innocence.

In July 2020 Dean was named Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in the Public law category. A recent example of one of his judicial review challenges is Warner, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Justice [2020] EWHC 1894 (Admin), which involved a claim against the Ministry of Justice for interfering in the independence of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Ultimately, the challenge was unsuccessful but it did lead the High Court to conclude “The relationship between the CCRC and MoJ (whether the ALB CoE or more widely) was very poor during this period, even dysfunctional. The poverty of this relationship undoubtedly tested the CCRC’s ability to remain independent of MoJ, and to be seen to be so. It is no surprise that a judicial review was issued in 2018, seeking the Court’s review of these and related matters”.

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We will be holding the webinar by Zoom and details of how to join the webinar will be sent to you on the morning of the event taking place.

I look forward to you joining us this Wednesday.

Kind regards,
Andrea Coomber
Director

JUSTICE
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