Join us for a live Zoom webinar from 10.00 on Thursday 21 January – open to all!
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.
The programme runs from 10.00 – 13.15 with panels on: COVID-19, Health and Social Justice; Courts, Justice and COVID-19; and COVID-19 and Precarity
Programme
10.00: Welcome from Professor Helen Carr (Kent Law School)
Panel 1: COVID-19, Health and Social Justice
- 10.10: Professor Sally Sheldon (Public health, social justice and COVID-19)
- 10.25: Dr Gowri Nanayakkara (COVID-19 and health inequalities)
- 10.40: Ms Leanne Taylor (COVID-19 and the mental health tribunal)
- 10.55: Open forum via the Q&A function. Please join and ask our panellists questions, or share information and ideas
- 11.05: short break
Panel 2: Courts, Justice and COVID-19
- 11.10: Bernard Richmond QC, Honorary Professor University of Kent (virtual hearings – a practitioner perspective)
- 11.25: Professor Rosemary Hunter (Access to justice and virtual courts – domestic abuse)
- 11.40: Professor Shaun McVeigh (governing conduct and civil relations in COVID-19)
- 11.55: Open forum via the Q&A function. Please join and ask our panellists questions, or share information and ideas
- 12.05: short break
Panel 3: COVID-19, Informality and Precarity
- 12.10: Ms Sheona York – Migrant ‘Covid heroes’ and the hostile environment
- 12.25: Dr Luis Eslava (Informality in times of COVID-19 – a view from Colombia)
- 12.40: Professor Lydia Hayes (public health consequences of absence of occupational sick pay in the care sector)
- 12.55: Open forum via the Q&A function. Please join and ask our panellists questions, or share information and ideas
- 13.05: Closing remarks, Professor Helen Carr