(7) Training of lawyers in England. Shorter version.

Questions posed by the Masters students of the Faculty of Law at ZNU.

Seminar co-delivered with Frances Willmott.

This is what I spoke about at the seminar.

I agreed with the students that we will not talk about all of the set questions so then they could have the chance to ask practical legal questions to a real practicing English criminal barrister, Frances Willmott, of Linenhall Chambers, Chester. The other file is a more detailed set of these notes. It contains more detail that may be of interest to the students, and to the Professors and Dean, of the Faculty of Law.

The text includes a mixture of fact and my own personal opinion.

(8) Training of lawyers in England and Wales.

Questions posed by the Masters students of the Faculty of Law at ZNU.

Seminar co-delivered with Frances Willmott.

This file is a more detailed set of my notes on training of lawyers in England and Wales. It contains more detail that may be of interest to the students, and to the Professors and Dean, of the Faculty of Law. Especially given about debates and proposals on reform of higher education, and of legal education, in Ukraine.

The text includes a mixture of fact and my own personal opinion.

(9) Patriotic Education Conference, Zaporozhia Oblast. 28 November 2014.

National values and education in the UK.

The first page is my short biography, and summary of the talk (reproduced below).

Pages 2 - 3 are the talk as I delivered it, but with a few paragraphs or lines highlighted in yellow, that I missed out to ensure that I stuck more closely to the time allocated.

Pages 4 - 6 are a more detailed version of the talk, with some more explanation of points. At the end are a few web links to official information about England and Wales.

Summary.

This short talk will mostly be about the UK, but I am also interested in Ireland.

I will mention six points.

We do not have 'patriotic education' in the UK. Our education system does promote 'British values'. History is compulsory in primary schools (young children) and history and citizenship education are compulsory until the age of 14 (citizenship until 16). English language is compulsory till 16.

Many people in the nations of the UK, England, Scotland and Wales are all patriotic for their countries. Irish people are proud of their heritage too. The situation is more complicated in Northern Ireland but everyone is proud of coming from their own land.

Our armed forces have more widespread popular support than twenty years ago (I believe) because the army has been involved in long foreign conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. People support the soldiers and other personnel even though many opposed the Government policies.

In Wales and Ireland, there has been a cultural revival of their ancient languages. Everyone in these countries speaks English, most speak English as their main language, but the Celtic languages are official languages along with English, used jointly in printed documents by government and can be used in the legal system.

The problem of violence in Northern Ireland took much hard work by many brave people to end. When the war stops in the Donbass, in the future there will be some lessons that can be learnt from Northern Ireland.

The recent cultural revival in Wales includes support for the language. This has been done in a positive way – it is not anti-English but is promoting the Welsh language as part of the unique history and culture of Wales. This is good for tourists and everyone.

(10) Visit to the European Union institutions.

Notes from visits that were used as recent examples in discussing the importance of the EU with students. The Stronger Together campaign supported by the British Embassy in Ukraine was also mentioned frequently. Stronger Together campaign on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StrongerTogetherUA

A visit to the European Parliament Home Affairs Committee, 3 September 2014.

The European Parliament display for tourists.

A tourist visit to the European Commission.

(11) Websites for student and lecturer reference, ZNU November 2014.