5RB Chambers, Media Law Insight Evening & BVL Model Law Commission
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Law focused social mobility organisation Big Voice London (BVL), have partnered with media law barristers' chambers, 5RB, to run a media law insight evening.
5RB is a leading set of media and communications law barristers who practise in all areas of media law including: defamation, privacy, confidence, data protection, harassment, media regulation, intellectual property, sport and human rights.
The session will run between 6 and 8pm on a date to be confirmed in Summer 2025.
Those who take part in the insight evening will have an exclusive opportunity to apply for work experience placement with 5RB Chambers.
Model Law Commission
Now in its 13th year, the Model Law Commission is a three-month long project that provides A-Level students with the chance to simulate the work of the Law Commission.
We split the pool of students into four groups, each tasked with the reform of one of the following areas of law: (1) Family, Trusts or Land Law; (2) Criminal Law; (3) Commercial and Common Law; or (4) Public Law. From October to December, students undertake a five-stage process: research, formulating recommendations, consulting with their peers, reporting on their proposals and devising their legislation.
Each year, the Model Law Commission begins with a two-day virtual conference in London.
It is over the course of these two days that students are introduced to their respective topics by experts in the field who come from all over the country to speak to them.
The students are also visited by individuals from the Law Commission itself visit our students and advise on the difficulties in reforming the law and how to write a law reform report.
The students then take that information and over the following weeks discuss reform ideas with each other, their Group Leaders and their peers.
The project then concludes with a final in person report launch event in London in January, hosted by MPs and visitors from the Law Commission.
At the event, each student will receive a printed and published copy of their group's reform report.
If you are interested in learning more about the way law works in the UK, the way it is made and changed, then you are strongly encouraged to apply.
The project will take place between September 2025 and January 2026 on the following dates:
· Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, 10am to 4pm on both days - Model
Law Commission Conference, via Zoom
· Thursday 25 September, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 2 October, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 9 October, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 16 October, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 23 October, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 30 October, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 6 November, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 13 November, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 20 November, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 27 November, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Thursday 4 December, 6:30 to 8:30pm, via Zoom
· Date TBC confirmed in January, final event in person in London at Portcullis House in Westminster, travel expenses reimbursed for those travelling from outside of London / Greater London.
This is open to students across England and Wales and is completely free of charge.
The deadline for applications is 7pm on Friday 5th September.
