{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F63b1cf24-e191-4230-9686-3f1898d07ad3","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Modern Judging: The 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture","description":"On 16 November 2021 Lady Dame Sarah Falk delivered the 2021 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled \"Modern Judging\".\r\n\r\nThe Honourable Mrs Justice Falk DBE spoke about modern judging, her experience as a High Court judge having followed an unconventional path to the High Court bench, the selection of judges, and some lessons learned from the pandemic for the conduct of proceedings.\r\n\r\nDame Sarah Falk studied law at the University of Cambridge before starting her professional career at Freshfields. She was a partner at Freshfields between 1994 and 2013 and subsequently worked as a consultant. While at Freshfields she was involved in graduate recruitment as well as holding managerial roles. She became a High Court judge in October 2018, sitting in the Chancery Division, and was appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission as the High Court representative in October 2019.\r\n\r\nThe Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.\r\n\r\nMore information about this lecture, including photographs from the event, is available from the Private Law Centre website:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.privatelaw.law.cam.ac.uk/events/past-events\r\n\r\nThis entry provides an audio source for iTunes.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2e34b118-69c3-4c13-a7af-a279b2f75d08/3703893.jpg"}