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Graces submitted to the Regent House on 5 March 2003

The Council submit the following Graces to the Regent House. These Graces, other than any which is withdrawn or for which a ballot is requested in accordance with the regulations for Graces of the Regent House (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 113), will be deemed to have been approved at 4 p.m. on Friday, 14 March 2003.

1. That a Sir Leon Radzinowicz Criminological Fund be established in the University, to be governed by the following regulations.1

Sir Leon Radzinowicz Criminological Fund

1. The money received by the University from the bequest of the late Sir Leon Radzinowicz, of Trinity College, the first holder of the Wolfson Professorship of Criminology (1959-73), shall form a fund to be known as the Sir Leon Radzinowicz Criminological Fund.

2. The income of the Fund shall be used to provide a Nigel Walker Prize and a Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellowship.

3. The Managers of the Fund shall be the Committee of Management of the Institute of Criminology.

4. In any year that the Prize is not awarded or a Fellow is not elected, the income of the Fund may be added to the capital of the Fund or accumulated for use as income in future years, as the Director of the Institute shall determine.

Nigel Walker Prize

1. A Nigel Walker Prize shall be offered annually, in recognition of the contribution to the work of the University by Nigel Walker, of King's College, second holder of the Wolfson Professorship of Criminology (1973-84).

2. The Prize shall be awarded by Assessors appointed each year by the Managers of the Sir Leon Radzinowicz Criminological Fund. The value of the Prize shall be at the discretion of the Managers of the Fund.

3. The Prize shall be awarded, at the discretion of the Assessors, for an outstanding written contribution to the field of criminology by a member of the University of Cambridge.

4. No person may be awarded the Prize on more than one occasion.

5. The written work of the successful candidate shall be deposited in the Radzinowicz Library of Criminology, and the Library shall maintain a consolidated record of all written works that have been awarded the Prize.

Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellowship

1. Not more frequently than every second year, the Managers of the Sir Leon Radzinowicz Criminological Fund may elect a Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellow.

2. It shall be the duty of the Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellow to prepare, deliver, and discuss at least two public lectures, to be known as the Radzinowicz Lectures, on topics to be agreed with the Managers. The lectures shall be within the field of public policy in relation to crime and criminal justice.

3. In electing each Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellow, the Managers shall take into account the wish of Sir Leon Radzinowicz that holders of the Fellowship should normally be persons who have served with distinction in Government, the Judiciary, Parliament, or other public office in the United Kingdom or elsewhere.

4. No person shall be elected to the Sir Leon Radzinowicz Visiting Fellowship on more than one occasion.

5. The emolument to be provided to each Fellow shall be decided by the Managers at the time of each election.

6. Copies of the text of the Radzinowicz Lectures shall on each occasion be deposited in the Radzinowicz Library of Criminology, and the Library shall maintain a consolidated record of all such Lectures.

2. That approval be given in principle for the sale or other disposal of numbers 19, 21, and 22 Trumpington Street subject to the announcement of agreed terms to the Regent House by way of a Council Notice in due course.2

3. That the recommendations in paragraph 11 of the Report of the Council, dated 25 November 2002, on the construction of a new Faculty building for the School of Education (Reporter, p. 360), be approved.2

1 See the Vice-Chancellor's Notice, p. 682.

2See the Council's Notice, p. 683.


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Cambridge University Reporter 5 March 2003
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