Past Conferences & Seminars

Comments about our past conferences:

The Reform of Adult Social Care Law Debate - January 22nd 2010

I found the day tremendously useful and informative. It was good to be at the beginning of the consultation process and to contribute to shaping and informing the thinking of the Law Society Commissioners. Suzy Braye was excellent in pulling together and framing the very distinct agendas of the lawyers and the participants and we left feeling as though the debates of the day would be taken forward. Reading the latest consultation article in last week's 'Community Care', I feel validated in this view!
A very positive and exciting day. Many thanks.
Carol Wilkinson
MCA DOLS Manager
East Sussex County Council

I thought the day was really interesting and helpful to me as a Lawyer to understand the different viewpoints of the parties who attended and who will be affected by this potentially enormous change in legislation. As a lawyer you become very effective at fire fighting individual challenges, but it is also really helpful to know what people are hoping to achieve from changes such as this.  It certainly assists me in advising clients more effectively. 
Meera Leavey
Senior Solicitor

Comments on Professor Suzy Braye

Comments on Lord Justice Munby

“Good guidelines, [Suzy Braye] really got into her stride.”
“Very good. Kept day moving.”
“Excellent. Kept it going very well.”
“Good choosing, facilitated and enabled participation.”
“Excellent, informed, skilled and perceptive at bringing us all along.”
“Facilitated the discussions very well.”
“Well presented, effective and clear.”

“Informative background explanation”
“Particularly useful to set current project in context.”
“Very useful background to process and stage/status of material being discussed.”
“Set the scene and gave the background.”
“Informative.”
“Very good overview of the role of the Law Commission. “
“Feel privileged to have heard and seen the ‘main man’.”
“Very clear presentation about the Law Commission and the context of today.”
“Excellent overview of Law Commission’s role and the need for review.”

“Very relevant information.”
“Consistently very good – thank you.”
“Good overview.”
“Informative.”
“Set out the agenda.”
“Good overview of the reform process and areas being addressed.”

“Thought-provoking.”
“Great dose of reality.”
“Nice to have an interactive approach.”
“Very good and thought provoking.”
“Excellent presentation.”
“Well presented.”
“An excellent practical demonstration of the reality of the problems in the current system.”
“Provoking, short, made me think.”
“Excellent example of the legislative minefield.”

“Full of useful info on assessment rights.”
“Tim Spencer-Lane and Lauren Jamieson were] both clear and cover their area consistently.”
“Lauren - Very good and clear.”
“Good opportunity to reflect on overview.”
“Thoughtful and realistic.”
“Set out the issues and the questions in a straight forward way.”
“Relieved to see which elements are being considered for reform, these have been long standing frustrations...”
“Very detailed and thoughtful – good hand on current issues.”

“Response to issues valued for debate, extremely useful to have Simon Stevens’ input and value – excellent!”
“I thought Jane Ashman managed to bring all the agendas that LA’s are going through together...”
“Simon Stevens was excellent – it was great to see service users witnessed utilised.”
On Jane Ashman’s presentation - “Excellent points for consideration.”
On Simon Stevens’ presentation - “Nice to get a perspective from a person on the ‘receiving end’.”
“Very interesting.”
“Reflective and personal – good.”
On Jane Ashman’s presentation – “Good response to issues raised and relieved to see revegution and to embrace personalisation.”
On Simon Stevens’ presentation – “Astute and appropriate raising of the issues behind rights and responsibilities.”
On Simon Stevens’ presentation – “ Great – direct, to the point, from the heart and head.”

“Very competent presentation of safeguarding issues and the need for reformed consistency.”
“Norman Sterling-Baxter summarised the challenges of SGN & practising well.”
“This was excellent – Both speakers very knowledgeable. Thoroughly enjoyed it – my favourite.”
“Excellent also!”
“Good individual account presented in a different way.”