MCLE London™ Programme 2023

SESSION 2

Live Issues of International Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict between States and issues relatingto harm caused as seen in the current Russo-Ukrainian War.

Tsvetelina van Benthem LLM (Sofia University), MJur, Dist, and MPhil (Oxon).

Tsvetelina is a Research Officer at the Oxford University Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). Amongst research and writing, and finalizing her PhD project at Merton College, Oxford, she teaches Public International Law at the Law Faculty in Oxford, and at the Stanford in Oxford Program.

SESSION 3

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) – short comments on the current activities, plans and general potentialities for the recreation of destroyed infrastructure and the safe maintenance in particular of Chernobyl and other nuclear power stations in Ukraine.

Craig Spruce, Attorney (NY). Chief General Counsel, EBRD

Balthasar Lindauer, Head of Nuclear Safety, EBRD

SESSION 4

Live issues in Ukraine of national and international legal practice and their current operation and development prospects in a nation still at war and under intense infrastructure bombardment and partial, vigorously active military invasion.

Mykola Stetsenko LLM (Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Ukraine): LLM Georgetown University Law Centre, DC; Lawyer Ukraine, Attorney at Law (NY)

Mykola is the Managing Partner of the Avellum law firm in Kyiv, and Head of Corporate /M&A Practice.
He is a Member of the Management Board of the Ukraine Bar Association. He is frequently involved in the drafting of Ukrainian legislation particularly relating to corporate law.

SESSION 5

Rule of Law. The thin end of the return of the “Flying Wedge”? US Voting Controls and the Constitution, post-January 6, 2021 and the 2022 Mid-terms: Moore v Harper at SCOTUS

Karl J. Sandstrom – Attorney (DC), and Senior Counsel at Perkins Coie. Practice areas: Political law; Political Parties, Campaigns and Committees.

SESSION 6

Competence (Substance Abuse) : Abuse and over prescription of Medicinal and Medicinal-type drugs.

The well-known illegal and recreational drugs are not the only pharmacological substances that can cause problems for stressed professionals and their staffs, especially when self-medicated.

Roz Gittins, MRPharmS (Hons) MSc CertPsychPharm MCMHP IP

Roz is the Director of Care Standards and Practice Improvement for Westminster Drug Project (WDP), a UK charity with a focus on treatment for substance use, that is committed to reducing deprivation and exclusion and improving people’s well-being. As a registered pharmacist, she has worked in senior leadership roles in the third sector for several years and previously worked in NHS mental health and acute secondary care settings. Roz is also the President of the international College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) and a member of various panels and committees including Drug Science’s Scientific Committee. She has acted as an expert advisor for various organisations and contributed to online resources, national publications, textbook chapters and primary research. Her Doctorate in Pharmacy is focused on the misuse of over the counter and prescription medication.

SESSION 7

Elimination of Bias: UK Judicial Training in inclusivity, sensitivity and fairness in practice

Yvette Genn, of Cloisters Chambers, Pump Court, Temple is a barrister specialising in employment law and a fee paid judge (Recorder – so a part-time Circuit Judge). She hears civil and family cases and also sits as a judge in the Mental Health Tribunal on the Restricted Patients Panel.

Yvette has been designing and delivering training for courts and tribunal judges for over 20 years across a wide range of jurisdictions (as well as providing training for other legal professionals). She is a training fellow of UCL’s Judicial Institute and a Faculty Tutor for the Judicial College – the body that trains and educates all judges in England and Wales She has delivered training for European Judges at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier in discrimination law. She is a co-author with other judges and experienced judicial trainers of a new book to be published this month by Hart/Bloomsbury entitled “Making Decisions Judicially: A Guide for Decision-makers”

SESSION 8

Digital Legal Practice – Cybersecurity for lawyers at a time of international hot war and data capture, disinformation and disruption by criminal organisations and State “bad-actors” (sometimes the same entities).

Richard Parlour, MA(Cantab), Solicitor (EW) –
Richard is an English Solicitor and an experienced international financial markets specialist lawyer. Starting his career with Clifford Chance’s derivatives team, he has worked as in-house counsel at LIFFE, and in Brussels with the European institutions. He advises on regulatory compliance, deterrence of economic crime, investigations, training and acts as an expert witness. He has established Financial Markets Law International (FMLI) as a specialised financial markets law firm and consultancy, which acts mainly for large international banks and brokers. FMLI also provides specialised services for leading international law firms, governments and regulators, such as multi-jurisdictional litigation support and intelligence, and has a focus on cybersecurity.

He is also chairman of the EU Task Force on Cybersecurity Policy for the Financial Sector, and a member of the advisory boards of IASME (the sole UK certification body for SME cybersecurity certification) and Ensuresec (a similar body to IASME but the European version). He is a member of the UK APPG on Cybersecurity. Richard is closely involved with the Future of Cybersecurity series and has been a member of the DCMS Cyber Experts Group.

Richard is also heavily involved in financial crime deterrence, asset tracing, litigation support, investigation and training.

SESSION 9

Ten Wide-ranging recent developments in Ethics for US lawyers

Lucian T Pera, Attorney (TN). Partner Adams & Reese LLP, 2022 recipient of ABA’s Michael Franck Professional Responsibility Award.

John T Berry – Attorney (FL), (Now retired) Legal Division Director for the Florida Bar, supervising lawyer regulation and the Professionalism Center of the Professionalism Commisssion of the Florida Supreme Court And Florida Bar. ABA Michael Franck Award for achievement in lawyer ethics, professionalism and conduct (2001).