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  • 6 May 2012
    It is with sadness that the Department notes the death of Emeritus Professor Dafydd Jenkins.

    Born on St David’s Day 1911, Professor Jenkins was an agriculture tutor at the Extra-Mural Department of Aberystwyth University from 1944 until 1957 and a lecturer at the Law Department from 1965 until 1975. He was appointed to the chair in Legal History and Welsh Law in 1975, a post he held until his retirement in 1978.
     
    A graduate of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Professor Jenkins was called to the Bar in 1934. He worked as a barrister in Carmarthen and in 1938 was secretary of the campaign to have the Welsh language recognised in Court. He was secretary of the Welsh Economic Development Association, 1946-1948, and the Welsh Agricultural Organisation Society, 1955-1960, and Chairman of The Milk and Dairies Tribunal for Wales, [1976]-[1979]. He belonged to various other organisations including the Welsh Language Advisory Translation Panel, [1967]-[1975], the Sociological Group of the Church in Wales, Plaid Cymru and Undeb Cymru Fydd.

    Professor Jenkins published several important works on the Laws of Hywel Dda, including Cyfraith Hywel (Llandysul, 1970), Celtic Law Papers (Brussels, 1973), The Law of Hywel Dda: law texts from Medieval Wales (Llandysul, 1986), and editions of Llyfr Colan (Cardiff, 1963) and Damweiniau Colan (Aberystwyth, 1973). His other publications include the travel books, Ar Wib yn Nenmarc (Aberystwyth, 1951) and Ar Wib yn Sweden (Aberystwyth, 1959), Tân yn Llyn (Aberystwyth, 1937), Y nofel: datblygiad y nofel Gymraeg ar ôl Daniel Owen (Cardiff, 1948), Law for Co-operatives (Oxford, 1958) and an edition of Gwilym Hiraethog's Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr (Aberystwyth, 1940). He co-edited Heddiw with Aneirin Talfan Davies.
  • 27 April 2012
    Professor John Williams from the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University has been invited to join a panel of fifteen international experts on older people and the law by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
    Further information is available at http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2012/04/title-114442-en.html
  • 1 March 2012
    Professor Alan Clarke, Professor John Williams and Sarah Wydall have been awarded a grant of £25,000 from the Welsh Government to evaluate the Access to Justice Pilot Project, which is based in Swansea.  The Access to Justice Project was set up twelve months ago by the Welsh Government to facilitate criminal and civil justice for older vulnerable people who are victims of domestic abuse.  It seeks to address some of the difficulties encountered by older people who have been the subject of domestic abuse, in particular the need for agencies to work together and the need to ensure that older victims do not feel that they have been denied justice.  The evaluation project will assess the impact of the Pilot Project and will make recommendations to the Welsh Government on how the scheme can be effectively implemented in Wales.  Alan and Sarah have extensive experience of researching domestic violence and John has published widely on elder abuse and the law.
  • 23 February 2012
    CWLA (Centre for Welsh Legal Affairs) Annual Lecture 2012
    Dr Timothy Brain - former Chief Constable of Gloucester and author of 'A History of Policing in England and Wales from 1974: a Turbulent Journey'
    Title - ‘A future for policing in Wales’
  • 8 February 2012
    Iain Macleod, Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will be visiting the Department of Law and Criminology on Wednesday 8th February. He will be in dialogue with Sir Emyr Jones Parry, President of the University (a former Permanent Representative to the UN and former Permanent Representative to NATO), from 3.45 pm in the Main Hall, International Politics. Questions to be discussed include negotiations among the euro zone countries and impact on the EU Treaties, the law relating to intervention and the Libyan president, the issue of prime ministerial access to prerogative powers in a period of deepening legal frameworks, and the legality of the invasion of Iraq.

    Iain Macleod was admitted as a solicitor in 1987 and since then has held positions in a number of Government departments. At the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, he worked at the UK Representation to the EC and at the UK Mission to the UN (he was legal counsellor to the UK’s mission to the United Nations in New York between 2001 and 2004). Subsequently, he was Deputy Legal Adviser at the Home Office and then Legal Adviser, Central Advisory Division, Treasury Solicitor’s Department, before taking up his present post last year.

  • 14 October 2011
    European Union Project on Parental Involvement within the School 
    Speakers: Prof. Michele Brunelli (UNESCO Chair, University of Bergamo, Italy); Ms Valeria Ariategui (OIDEL, Geneva); Dr Marco Odello (Dept. of Law & Criminology, Abersytwyth University)
    P    resentation of the results of a three year EU sponsored project on the development of human rights indicators regarding the participation of parents in compulsory education.
    The IPPE Project has been sponsored by the European Union (Lifelong Learning Programme) over three years, and it is based on a survey including 15 European countries, including Switzerland and the UK. Dr Marco Odello and Jill St George of the Department of Law & Criminology represented England & Wales in an international network of eight partner institutions. The governance of education systems is one of the key elements in ensuring quality education. Good governance also means greater involvement of stakeholders. This project has determined some indicators in order to measure parental involvement in European education systems. The indicators should help governments in managing their policies. The originality of this study lies on the human rights based approach to education. The research has shown two needs: first, to put in place arrangements that reflect the expectations and views of parents; and second, to devise new formulas or methods that support parental involvement in education. 
  • 15 June 2011
    Professor John Williams has recently written a practitioners guide to the law on the Protection of Older People in Wales, which seeks to simplify the difficult area of adult protection law to help social care and health practitioners in their work with older people.  A copy of the guide can be found at: http://www.olderpeoplewales.com/en/news/news/11-04-14/Protection_of_older_people_in_Wales_A_guide_to_the_law.aspx The Guide will be launched in Cardiff on the 15th June by the Minister for Social Services, Gwenda Thomas and the Commissioner for Older People, Ruth Marks.
  • 6 April 2011
    The Department held a Human Rights Symposium entitled:-
    The Impact of Anti-Terrorism Measures on Democracy and Human Rights
    Following the rise of global terrorist attacks since 11 September 2001, a number of measures to 'combat' terrorism have been introduced by states and international organisations in the past decade.  Some of these measures have been held to violate human rights and fundamental principles of democracy because they have been introduced without respect for relevant procedures under international human rights law for derogations in cases of emergency.  Such developments have given rise to a great amount of concern and debate worldwide.  In order to analyse the many challenges posed by the so called 'war against terror', the Department of Law and Criminology is holding a one day symposium which will look at the possible effects of anti-terrorism measures on democracy and human rights worldwide.
  • 1 March 2011
    The Department is delighted to extend its warmest wishes to Dafydd Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of Legal History and Welsh Law on the occasion of his 100th birthday on St David's Day, March 1st.  Professor Jenkins was a member of the academic staff of the Department from 1965, and Professor of Law from 1975-1978.