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Tuesday 15th April 2025
08:00 - 18:00
Information Desk Opens
09:00 - 12:00
Postgraduate Sessions
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Panel Session 1
14:30 - 15:00
Refreshments
15:00 - 16:30
Panel Session 2
16:45 - 18:15
Panel Session 3
Wednesday 16th April 2025
08:00 - 18:00
Information Desk Opens
09:00 - 10:30
Plenary - Liverpool and The Legacies of Hillsborough: A Multi-Sectoral, Socio-Legal Campaign
This SLSA conference coincides with the 36th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster and the year in which a new Hillsborough Law is anticipated. This plenary session brings together some of the most significant figures in the Hillsborough Justice campaign to showcase and reflect on the complementary roles that community activism, research, the arts and the law have played in pursuing justice for the Hillsborough families.
The Hillsborough stadium disaster took place at the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15th April 1989 and claimed the lives of ninety-seven men, women, and children. Over subsequent decades the disaster has prompted a Home Office inquiry, a criminal investigation, compensation hearings which reached the House of Lords, the longest inquests in recent legal history, a judicial review, judicial scrutiny, and private prosecutions. Hillsborough has sparked debate about truth, injustice, police corruption and state collusion. Crucially, the formal processes of accountability following the Hillsborough disaster were driven and shaped by extensive community campaigning challenging the state and the legal system’s inadequate response to the tragedy. The campaign by the Hillsborough families therefore provides perhaps the most significant example of the way in which accountability must be understood through a socio-legal lens, and has inspired many other justice campaigns ever since.
The panel includes: acclaimed Liverpool-based writer and producer, Jimmy McGovern; leading socio-legal scholar, Professor Phil Scraton; Elkan Abrahamson, legal representative to many of the Hillsborough victims’ families; and Margaret Aspinall and Sue Roberts respectively chair and secretary of the Hillsborough Family Support Group which spearheaded the campaign for justice for the victims and their families.
10:30 - 11:00
Refreshments
10:30 - 11:30
Poster Presentation and Judging
11:00 - 12:30
Panel Session 4
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
AGM
14:00 - 15:30
Panel Session 5
15:30 - 16:00
Refreshments
16:00 - 17:30
Panel Session 6
19:00 - 00:00
Gala Dinner - St Georges Hall
Thursday 17th April 2025
09:00 - 14:30
Information Desk Opens
09:00 - 10:00
Impact Session
10:00 - 11:30
Panel Session 7
11:30 - 12:00
Refreshments
12:00 - 13:30
Panel Session 8
13:30 - 14:30
Lunch
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