Subscriptions
The recommended subscription is £50 per year and there is a minimum subscription of £30 per year. If you would like to join the Association, please download an application form using MS Word. Please return the completed form together with your standing order to the Secretary. Members who join after the start of the autumn conference 2005 will not be required to pay any further subscription until January 2007. If you are not already a member of the Liberal Democrats and would like to know more about the Party, please visit www.libdems.org.uk

 

Activities

  
  • The annual weekend conference is held in the spring, usually during the Easter vacation at an Oxbridge college. Leading academics, practitioners, Liberal Democrat MP's and peers participate. A guest speaker is invited to dinner on the Saturday evening. All members are welcome. Guests are welcome at the dinner.
 

 

Shami Chakrabarti addressing the LDLA fringe meeting, Brighton Conference, September 2006, with by Jonathan Marks QC, Chair of LDLA, and Lord Lester of Herne Hill, President of LDLA

  
     
  • Fringe meetings are organised to discuss and often to debate legal issues of topical interest at the Liberal Democrats' spring and autumn conference.
  • The 80 Club lecture is delivered in London by a prominent speaker, often from outside the Liberal Democrats.
         
  • The Association's Annual Dinner is a significant social event, usually held in late January. Members are welcome to bring guests.
  • There are opportunities throughout the year to participate in the Association's policy-making activities.

 
   

Blackpool Conference 2005:  Jonathan Marks QC, Chair of the LDLA, speaking on the need for a written constitution for the United Kingdom

 

    
Scotland and Northern Ireland
The Association is interested in Scottish and Northern Irish law as well as that of England and Wales and would particularly welcome enquiries from counsel, solicitors, law teachers and others practising or qualified in those jurisdictions.