{"id":5988,"date":"2020-12-11T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=5988"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:23:22","slug":"covid-19-and-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/covid-19-and-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 and Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Kent Law School is extending an open invitation to all for a live webinar on Thursday 21 January that seeks to critically explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social justice at home and overseas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<div class=\"text__body\">\n<p>The programme runs from 10.00 &#8211; 13.15 with panels on: COVID-19, Health and Social Justice; Courts, Justice and COVID-19; and COVID-19 and Precarity<\/p>\n<h2>Programme<\/h2>\n<p>10.00: Welcome from Professor Helen Carr (Kent Law School)<\/p>\n<h3>Panel 1: COVID-19, Health and Social Justice<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>10.10:\u00a0Professor Sally Sheldon (Public health, social justice and COVID-19)<\/li>\n<li>10.25: Dr Gowri Nanayakkara (COVID-19 and health inequalities)<\/li>\n<li>10.40: Ms \u00a0Leanne Taylor (COVID-19 and the mental health tribunal)<\/li>\n<li>10.55: Open forum via the Q&amp;A function. Please join and ask our panellists questions, or share information and ideas<\/li>\n<li>11.05: short break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Panel 2: Courts, Justice and COVID-19<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>11.10: Bernard Richmond QC, Honorary Professor University of Kent (virtual hearings \u2013 a practitioner perspective)<\/li>\n<li>11.25: Professor Rosemary Hunter (Access to justice and virtual courts \u2013 domestic abuse)<\/li>\n<li>11.40: Professor Shaun McVeigh (governing conduct and civil relations in COVID-19)<\/li>\n<li>11.55: Open forum via the Q&amp;A function. Please join and ask our panellists questions, or share information and ideas<\/li>\n<li>12.05: short break<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Panel 3: COVID-19, Informality and Precarity<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>12.10: Ms Sheona York &#8211;\u00a0Migrant \u2018Covid heroes\u2019 and the hostile environment<\/li>\n<li>12.25: Dr Luis Eslava (Informality in times of COVID-19 &#8211; a view from Colombia)<\/li>\n<li>12.40: Professor Lydia Hayes (public health consequences of absence of occupational sick pay in the care sector)<\/li>\n<li>12.55: Open forum via the Q&amp;A function. Please join and ask our panellists questions, or share information and ideas<\/li>\n<li>13.05: Closing remarks, Professor\u00a0Helen Carr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/kent-law-school-covid-19-and-social-justice-tickets-132517668915\">Register now via Eventbrite<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\">Kent Law School<\/a> is one of the UK\u2019s leading law schools. We have a distinctive critical approach, placing law within the wider context of society. 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