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INFORM Seminar XLVII
LEGAL CASES INVOLVING MINORITY RELIGIONS
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
London School of Economics, Saturday 3 December 2011
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Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 7 November 2011 cost £38 each (£18 students/unwaged).
NB, Tickets booked after 7 November 2011 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
9.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction
10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor, LSE; Chair & Honorary Director, Inform) "One Law for All?"
10.35 - 11.00: Paul Tweed (Lawyer) "Legal Cases Involving Scientology"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: Richard Daniel (Jehovah's Witness lawyer) "Legal Cases Involving Jehovah's Witnesses"
11.50 - 12.15: Phillip Katz QC (Head of Chambers) "What is the Price of Confidentiality? What happens if you get involved in crime..."
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: Hardeep Singh (Freelance Writer) & Henry Spooner (Barrister) "Religious Libel: Are Courts the Right Place for Faith Disputes?"
14.15 - 14.40: Andrew Scott (Senior Lecturer, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science) & Alastair Mullis (Professor, University of East Anglia) "Establishing Truths?: The Interplay between Libel and Religion"
14.40 - 15.05: Julie Macfarlane (Professor of Law, University of Windsor & Professor of Practice, Kroc Institute for International Peacebuilding, University of Notre Dame) "Shari'a Law, Coming to a Courthouse Near You? Legal Issues for Muslims in North America"
15.05 - 15.30: Tea
15.30 - 15.55: Henri de Cordes (President of the Centre for Information and Advice on Harmful Sectarian Organizations) "Luong Minh Dang : when shakra opening leads to a Belgian criminal court"
15.55- 16.20 François Bellanger (President of the Information Centre on Beliefs in Geneva) "Legal Cases Involving Minority Religions"
16.20 - 16.50 Panel Discussion
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