The University of Warwick will be holding a conference on 19 March 2014 for the partnership project with Monash University: Access to Justice: A Comparative Analysis of cuts to the civil and criminal Legal Aid systems in England, Wales and Victoria.

The conference will include academics, researchers and practitioners and will look at the impact of civil and criminal legal aid cuts, focusing on:

• The changing face of the legal profession
• The lawyer-client relationship and
• The broader social consequences of the cuts.

Colleagues from Monash University will also be attending and providing a comparative perspective on recent legal aid reforms. A second conference will be hosted by Monash University in July 2014.

Jackie Hodgson (Warwick) and Asher Flynn (Monash) have been awarded A$13,398 + £7,165 from the Monash-Warwick Alliance Seed Fund for the project: Access to Justice: A Comparative Analysis of cuts to the civil and criminal Legal Aid systems in England, Wales and Victoria, August 2013 – June 2014.
The project brings together Warwick colleagues Jackie Hodgson (PI), James Harrison, Andrew Williams and Nathalie Byrom (Co-Is) with Monash colleagues Asher Flynn (PI) Jude McCulloch, Bronwyn Naylor and Arie Freiberg (Co-Is). The study is a comparative analysis of the impact of cuts to the civil and criminal legal-aid systems operating in England, Wales and Victoria.

Carla Saltelli, from the school of Law at Alma Mater Studiorum of Bologna, will be visiting from 6th October - 6th December. Whilst here, her main research focus is aimed at the development of her graduation thesis through the study of the interrogation themes in a Common Law system.
Carla will also be looking at the research differences and similarities in the study of interrogation between Common Law and Civil Law systems. Carla will be looking at reputable sources of information on Common Law's evolution of this discipline at the university Library.

A student visitor called Susanna Leonarduzzi from the University of Macerata in Italy will be visiting from 12th September – 11th November 2013. Whilst here Susanna will be doing research for her degree thesis about the corporate responsibility for environmental crimes. Susanna will be looking at the historical and cultural aspect: introduction of the regulation about corporate responsibility in UK legal system: historical period, reasons, panel discussion, evolution of the regulation from the introduction until today and previsions for the future.