The sixteenth Gordon Seminar in Criminal Law will take place on Friday 13 June 2025 on the University of Glasgow campus (10.45am-5pm), when the following speakers will present:

• Aura Bamber (Warwick): "The right to custodial legal advice, in law or in limbo?"
• Dr Andrew Cornford (Edinburgh): “Controlling prosecutorial discretion"
• Dr Rachel Ferguson (Glasgow Caledonian): “Sexual offences against children in the practice of the criminal law”
• Dr Kate Leader (Queen Mary): “Defendants as victims: a scoping study of vulnerability, victimhood and safeguards from charge to conviction"
• Dr Rachel McPherson (Glasgow): “The use of non harassment orders in sentencing"
• Tania Nascimento (Strathclyde): "The emotion work of restorative justice facilitators"
• Professor David Ormerod (UCL): "The Independent Review of Criminal Courts - Phase 1"

The event is supported by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education.