Elkan Abrahamson Elkan Abrahamson is a Partner with Jackson and Canter (Law Firm of the year 2009). He specialises in prisoners’ rights law, mainly for life sentence prisoners. With more than fifteen years experience, he has conducted a number of leading cases, most recently with:
- Watkins v SSHD (House of Lords case re misfeasance)
- Dickson v UK (ECHR case re artificial insemination for partners of prisoners)
- Hirst v UK (ECHR case re rights of prisoners to vote)
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The course is practical and informative, concentrating on key areas of prison law practice, as well as providing a general knowledge of the whole subject.
It aims to give delegates a solid and comprehensive foundation for best practice when representing prisoners, and to provide the training through which practitioners can build or develop a thriving prison law practice.