Event overview
Poor defence lawyering in the context of digital criminal proceedings
Poor defence lawyering in the context of digital criminal proceedings and the safeguarding of the right to an effective defence"Taking a comparative approach (across England & Wales, Belgium, and the wider supranational European perspective) the proposed talk will look at how the right to an effective defence can be safeguarded in the context of remote or online (i.e. “digital”) criminal proceedings. In doing so, it will draw upon two strands of research: my own PhD thesis on “poor defence lawyering”, and the work of the ongoing DigiRights project on the digitalisation of defence rights in criminal proceedings.
About the Speaker - Dr Ashlee Beazley, University of Leuven
Ashlee Beazley is a post doctoral researcher at the Institute for Criminal Law, KU Leuven. Her research centres around the quality of defence lawyers in England and Wales, and Belgium, and whether it is possible to determine a minimum standard of effective legal representation. Alongside her PhD research, Ashlee is also a teaching assistant and a contributing researcher to a number of inter-jurisdictional research projects, including EmpRiSe, a European Commission-funded study on the right to silence during criminal investigations.
Prior to the commencement of her PhD, Ashlee was based in Oxford, where she worked as a legal editor, freelance research assistant and exhibition designer, and an English tutor for Jacari, a not-for-profit organisation that works with disadvantaged children who don’t speak English as a first language.
Originally from New Zealand, Ashlee also holds conjoint BA (History) and LLB (Hons.) degrees from the University of Auckland (2015), and a MSt in British and European History from the University of Oxford (2016).
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Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 12 Feb 2025 | 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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