For the official opening of the new Leeds University Law Faculty at the Liberty Building, Moorland Road, Leeds, on 7 October 2011, Steven Kay QC has been invited to present a paper at a special conference of distinguished alumni to celebrate this occasion. Keir Starmer the DPP has also been invited and will deliver the key note address. Steven Kay QC will be presenting a paper entitled REGIME CHANGE AND LIBERTY IN THE NAME OF THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN POPULATIONS. A comparative analysis through the cases of Kosovo (1999), Iraq (2003) & Libya (2011).

The first day of the process known as framing of the charges at the Bangladesh War Crimes tribunal has ended in the Sayedee case.
One of the Judges believes that the ICTY has no requirement for the prosecution to prove a widespread or systematic attack as an element of the offence of crimes against humanity.
Has the Judge read the Tadic jurisdiction argument and any of the judgments in all the trials held since?
For a full account of the first days hearing see David Bergman's blog http://bangladeshwarcrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/4-sep-2011-charge-framing-petition.html?m=1

Sergei Magnitsky's mother demands justice for the death of her son.
Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage, will be speaking later this year at the 9 BRi conference and will tell the audience the chilling details of the death of this courageous lawyer at the hands of the Russian authorities, because he discovered a sophisticated fraud perpetrated by their own officials using the name of Hermitage. This fraud involved the police, tax authorities, lawyers and courts. It makes Gorky Park look like a picnic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/8790371/Sergei-Magnitskys-mother-demands-Russian-murder-investigation.html