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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The Haldane Society of Socialist
Lawyers and the Institute for Employment Rights invite you to hear Lord
Wedderburn QC and Jim Mortimer (former Labour Party General Secretary) in conversation
with John Hendy QC<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>"</span></font><b><font size=4
face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>The
Law Versus the Trade Unions? Reflections on the Past and Strategies for the
Future</span></font></b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>".<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The speakers will reflect on the
trade unions' relationship with the law and legal strategies, including
thoughts on the 1984 </span></font><font size=3 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>–</span></font><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 1985 miners'<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>strike, legal assaults on the right
to strike and other forms of collective action along with the growing emphasis
on individual redress through employment tribunals. In the present context of a
severe economic crisis and increased attacks on workers, this meeting aims to
equip a new generation with lessons learnt on how to both use and confront the
law in the struggles ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'>Thursday 27 May 2010, 6.30pm - 8.30pm at<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-autospace:none'><b><font
size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
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1</st1:address> and 2, TUC, Congress House, <st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street
w:st="on">Great Russell Street</st1:Street>, <st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">WC1B 3LS</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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bold'>(nearest tube <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Tottenham
Court</st1:address></st1:Street> Road.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Admission free (£10 to legal
practitioners requiring CPD points).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>John Hendy QC is a leading QC in the
areas of employment law, health and safety, public inquiries and personal
injuries. He has represented the National Union of Mineworkers on numerous
occasions, appeared in the inquiries into the Southall and Ladbroke Grove train
crashes on behalf of the victims, and led the ground-breaking test case
litigation establishing liability for "vibration white finger" on
behalf of British Coal mineworkers. He is currently acting for Unite in the
British Airways litigation. He is a Vice-President of the Haldane Society.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Jim Mortimer was General Secretary
of the Labour Party between 1982 and 1987. He played a notable role in the
miners' strike of 1984 </span></font><font size=3 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>–</span></font><font size=3
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 1985, throwing
himself into support for the miners and being given honorary membership of the
NUM in recognition of his efforts. Prior to becoming General Secretary, he had
been a national official of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding
Draughtsmen, later to become part of the Manufacturing, Science and Finance
Union (MSF) and now contained within Unite. He was a trade union member of the
National Board for Prices and Incomes between 1968 and 1971, and was the first
Chairman of ACAS.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lord Wedderburn of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Charlton</st1:City> <st1:State w:st="on">QC</st1:State></st1:place>
is a distinguished employment lawyer and legal academic and was Professor of
Commercial Law at the LSE 1964 - 92. His books range from The Worker and the
Law (first published 1965) to Employment Rights in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Britain</st1:country-region>
and <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> (1992), and Labour Law and Freedom
(1997). In 1998, European Community Law: Principles and Perspectives,
containing essays by an international group of writers, was published in his
honour. He is a Labour member of the House of Lords and a Vice-President of the
Haldane Society.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>With the kind sponsorship of Garden
Court Chambers, O H Parsons & Partners, Old Square Chambers, Pattinson
& Brewer, Thompsons solicitors and Tooks Court Chambers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Further information: <a
href="www.haldane.org">www.haldane.org</a> and <a href="www.ier.org.uk">www.ier.org.uk</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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