All Party Parliamentary Group for Legal and Constitutional Affairs
The Bar Council and the Law Society provide the secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Legal and Constitutional Affairs. The Bar Council support is via Weber Shandwick Public Affairs. The group, which is chaired by Lord Brennan QC (a former Chairman of the Bar), focuses on topics of interest from the new Ministry of Justice through to the Government's proposed constitutional reforms.
The group has held a series of meetings in the last year, including a summer reception in May 2007. Topics of meetings have included Zimbabwe and the rule of law, at which the President of the Zimbabwe Law Society, Beatrice Mtetwa, spoke; and Constitutional Reform, at which Joshua Rozenberg, the Telegraph's Legal Editor, spoke.
The next meeting of the group will take place on Tuesday 1 July 2008, at 6.30pm at One Bird Cage Walk, Westminster.
Officers of APPG
Chair: Lord Brennan QC
Vice Chairs: Lord Neill of Bladen QC; Lord Bach; Lord Burnett; Lord Clinton-Davies; Lord Hunt of Wirral; Edward Garnier QC MP; Shailesh Vara MP
Secretary: Henry Bellingham MP
Treasurer: Simon Hughes MP
Honorary Presidents: Lord Irvine & Lord Mackay of Clashfern
For more information on the APPG or its activities, please visit its website. You can also contact Camilla Barker, Weber Shandwick, by email, or telephone her on 0207 067 0330. Alternatively, you can contact Richard Messingham at the Law Society on 020 7320 5858.
