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11th March 2010 - OASys Assessments and Resettlement for Prisoners

Date: Thursday 11th March 2010

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: Doughty Chambers, 54 Doughty Street, London

The morning session on OASys assessments will include presentations by members of the NOMS OASys Team and barristers from Doughty Street Chambers. This is aimed at shedding some light on and generating debate about OASys assessments which can have a significant impact upon the progress of prisoners.

In the afternoon session on Resettlement we will be inviting organisations who can provide support to prisoners in the community (eg with housing, drugs/alcohol, disability needs) to explain what they do and how prisoners and their representatives can access and their assistance.  There will also be legal presentations by barristers from Doughty Street Chambers. This should provide invaluable information for advisers to assist clients with release plans.

The cost of the event is £ 70 for Members of The Association of Prison Lawyers and £ 100 for all non-members.

The event will attract at least 4.5 CPD points (to be confirmed).

Click here to download the booking form for this event.

Click here to download the full programme for this event.

17th May 2010 - OASys Assessments and Resettlement for Prisoners

Date: Wednesday 17th May 2010

Time: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

Location: eOffice, 1 Portland Place, Manchester

The morning session on OASys assessments will include presentations by members of the NOMS OASys Team and barristers from Doughty Street Chambers. This is aimed at shedding some light on and generating debate about OASys assessments which can have a significant impact upon the progress of prisoners.

In the afternoon session on Resettlement we will be inviting organisations who can provide support to prisoners in the community (eg with housing, drugs/alcohol, disability needs) to explain what they do and how prisoners and their representatives can access and their assistance.  There will also be legal presentations by barristers from Doughty Street Chambers. This should provide invaluable information for advisers to assist clients with release plans.

The cost of the event is £ 70 for Members of The Association of Prison Lawyers

and £ 100 for all non-members.

The event will attract at least 4.5 CPD points (to be confirmed).

Click here to download the booking for for this event.

MBL seminars are happy to offer members of the Association a 50% discount on ALL courses if they meet any of the following criteria:

1. They work in a firm of 10 or less lawyers requiring to undertake CPD (meaning they qualify for a free Small Firm Season Ticket (SFST) which guarantees 50% discount on any courses booked)

2. They are a trainee or barrister (meaning they qualify for our free Trainee / Barrister Season Ticket which guarantees 50% discount on any courses booked).

Beyond this, they are offering a 10% discount against courses booked by members who do not qualify for the above.

Forthcoming courses which may be of interest include:- 

• Parole Board Hearings & Prison Law Update
• Prison Law Recent Developments
• Youth Court Procedure & Sentencing Update
• Parole Board Representation

The cost for any of the above courses is £190 standard, £171 for APL members who quote APL when booking, or just £95 for any APL members who qualify for a Small Firm Season Ticket.

Please Visit http://www.mblseminars.co.uk/ for further information.

MBL's exclusive page for APL Members can be found at: http://mbltraining.com/MBL/6KO-1R1/APL.aspx