DAUK is thrilled to announce Imran Khan KC as a speaker at our inaugural Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference.
The day-long FREE conference is in memory of our founder and former chair, Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE. It will feature panels, discussions, and presentations on the causes she was passionate about.
Mr Khan, who has extensive experience and expertise in institutional injustice, will speak on the experience of injustice.
Founding partner at Imran Khan and Partners, Mr Khan was appointed Queen’s Counsel – now King’s Counsel – in 2018.
Mr Khan has worked on some of the country’s most high-profile cases. Most notably he represented the family of Stephen Lawrence during the private prosecution, inquest and public inquiry into Stephen’s murder, as well as the core participants in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
Systemic problems
He has said: “As I have learnt through the cases that I have been involved in – the murder of Stephen Lawrence which led to a public inquiry and changes in policing and race relations; the murder of Zahid Mubarek, which led to a public inquiry and changes to the prison system; the murder of Victoria Climbie which led to a public inquiry and changes in the treatment of children – when institutions do not treat people fairly, it reveals, and is indicative of, systemic problems which are not limited to the individual case.”
Mr Khan is chair of the British Institute of Human Rights and patron of the University of East London Law Clinic. He is also visiting professor of law at London South Bank University.
The Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference takes place at the Wellcome Collective in London from 9am to 5pm on Saturday 17 May.
Arrival and registration is from 8am, with the introduction starting at 9am and Mr Khan due to speak at 9.20am.
The conference is free and tickets are available now from Eventbrite.
Contributions to the conference can be made via our crowd funder. Please support our work.
