David Hatch Memorial Lecture (17 January 2008)
Towards a Bill of Rights and Responsibility (21 January 2008)
University of Manchester Anniversary Bio-ethics Lecture "Human Rights and Social Justice" (06 February 2008)
Speech given at George Washington University: "Modernising the Magna Carta" (13 February 2008)
Times Law Awards (21 February 2008)
Guardian Criminal Justice Summit “Prisons, probation and the press under examination” (10 March 2008)
Oral Statement to Parliament on draft Constitutional Renewal Bill & White Paper (25 March 2008)
Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts Lecture "Working for Everyone: Building Confidence in the Criminal Justice System (26 March 2008)
Strengthening the EU as a force for good in Africa and the wider world (07 April 2008)
Restorative Justice Consortium 10 Year anniversary speech "The Role of Restorative Justice" (29 April 2008)
POA Conference (08 May 2008)
Anglo-French Constitutional Conference (09 May 2008)
Speech given at Bosphorus University, Istanbul: "Turkey and Europe: a Partnership in Security and Prosperity" (23 October 2008)