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Day 1
24 February
BEST NEW
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W IN N E R
Residential
Property Law
Family Law
Criminal Law
Contract and
Commercial Law
Day 2
25 February
Commercial
Property Law
Private
Client Law
Employment
Law
Civil Litigation
Law
Agenda SJ Live
24 & 25 February 2015
CCT Venues Canary Wharf I London
Law Firm
Management
Speaker
Biographies
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Residential Property
DAY 1
24 February
08:30Registration
11:10 Morning refreshments
09:00 Introduction to residential property law
11:40 Lender exchange (1hr)
Speaker: Megan Tyler, Council for Licensed Conveyancers (CLC)
Speaker: Paul Tobias, Solicitor (ret’d), Lecturer
Life has never been so difficult for conveyancers and of
particular importance is the relationship with lenders. Next to
contend with is “Lender Exchange”.
• What is it? A look at the issue of multiple lenders asking
for similar information from law firms in for management
of their conveyancing panels.
• Are there any benefits? Possibly for the lenders but for
conveyancers?
• Law Society and CML views and reservations
• Why has lender exchange come about, are many lenders
involved how much will it cost you and how will this
impinge on panel membership generally?
• How do you apply, what information do you need to
supply and how confidential is the scheme?
• Is it time to opt for separate representation entirely?
• A word about “VEYO”? Presented as the “Home of
Conveyancing” Will it be secure, efficient, how will it work
– what could possibly go wrong?
• A look at the appeal decision in AIB v Mark Redler [2014]
and how the courts view damages for breach of trust
09:10 Case law update 2014 (1hr)
Speaker: Paul Tobias, Solicitor (ret’d), Lecturer
This year has produced a number of important cases for
conveyancers, although often in the heat of battle the busy
practitioner cannot find the time to look at them in any
detail. We will note some of these:
On easements and covenants
• Donovan v Rana [ 2014] EWCA Civ 99
• Emmet v Sisson [2014] EWCA Civ 64
• Yeung v Potel [2014] EWCA Civ 481
• Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 1
• Morningside [2014] UKUT 70(LC)
Liability of conveyancers to lenders in negligence
• E.Surv v Goldsmith Williams Solicitors [2014]
EWHC 1104 (Ch)
• Santander v RA Legal [2014] EWCA Civ 183
On leases
• Youssefi v Mussellwhite [2014] EWCA Civ 885
• Marks and Spencer plc v BNP Paribas [2014]
EWCA Civ 603
• Leasehold Reform (Amendment) Act 2014
On squatting
• Best v Chief Land Registrar [2014] EWHC 1370
On Party Wall Agreements
• Dillard v F & C [2014] EWHC 1219
• Patel v Peters [2014] EWCA Civ 335
Plus any up-to-date breaking news…
10:10 Co-ownership update (1hr)
Speaker: Adrian Carr, Barrister, Tanfield Chambers
This session will explore the up-to-date position on
co-ownership of land, with particular emphasis on the
practicalities for both contentious and non-contentious lawyers
who are considering: Adrian Carr, Barrister, Tanfield Chambers
• Types of co-ownership: joint tenancy and tenancy in
common in law and express, resulting/implied and
constructive trusts in equity
• Express trusts: declarations of trust, formalities, practical
differences between joint tenancy and tenancy in
common and severance
• Trusts imposed by law: implied/resulting and constructive
trusts, identification of nature of trust
and equitable accounting between beneficiaries
• Impact of Stack v Dowden and Jones v Kernott: where
Stack and Kernott principles apply and do not apply,
co-ownership in commercial enterprises, co-ownership
between friends and subsequent change in beneficiaries’
intentions
12:40 Top Ten Tips when Buying New
Build Property (1hr
Speakers: Karen Webb, Partner - Head of Residential Property
and New Homes, Coffin Mew
Hedley Winter, Business Development Manager
– New Homes, Coffin Mew
• Help to Buy – process, procedures and pit falls
• Quoting for New Build – do you know the site, are you
charging sufficient fees.
• Know your client – money laundering and identification
issues
• Plans and Specifications – when is it acceptable for these to
be changed.
• Amendments to standard contract documents – can you
ask for changes?
• Planning Permissions and Planning Agreements –
satisfaction of conditions
• Road and Sewers – who will maintain. What do you need
to report to the lender
• Lender Requirements – How well do you know the CML
Handbook, reporting incentives. Reservation deposits,
• Completion Dates – completion notices, mortgage expiry,
completion statements.
• Stamp Duty Land Tax – what are the implications of extras
or upgrades ordered by your client
13:40Lunch
14:40 Easements (1hr)
Speaker: Malcolm Dowden, Consultant, Charles Russell LLP
• Acquiring rights through long user
• Abandonment: how long is too long?
• Remedies for unlawful interference: is an injunction
still the default position?
• Change of use: will your easements survive?
15:40 Afternoon tea
16:10 Covenants (1hr)
Speaker: Malcolm Dowden, Consultant, Charles Russell LLP
• Restrictive covenants: how do you determine whether
they are enforceable?
• Remedies for breach: can you buy your way out of
trouble?
• Positive covenants: is the benefit and burden principle
making a comeback?
• Modification and discharge
17:10 Close of day one
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Family
DAY 1
24 February
08:45Registration
09:15 Family law update (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Simon Bruce, Partner, Farrer & Co
• Income cases
• Capital cases
• Funding of costs
• Emergency remedies
• Expert evidence
• Illegally obtained documents
•Non-disclosure
10:45 Morning refreshments
11:15 Pensions Reform – What it meant
for you (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Margaret de Valois, FIA, Actuary
• Budget 2014: Will you really be able to buy a
Lamborghini with your pension pot?
• Providing a pension as an employer
• Joining a pension, workplace or private, the pros
and cons
12:45Lunch
13:45 Ante-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Simon Bruce, Partner, Farrer & Co
• The Law Commission report
• How the court is dealing with pre-nups post
Radmacher
• The impact of the European Maintenance Regulation
• Post-nuptial agreements
• Settlement agreements
• Arbitration agreements
15:15 Afternoon tea
15:45 Child law update (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Ruth Cabeza, Specialist international family
law barrister, Field Court Chambers
This lecture will provide a general update on significant
changes in substantive law and practice across the board
in private and public law children cases and will include:
• The Family Court – practical impact for court users
• Child Arrangement Orders – update on case law
• Care cases and the 26 – week rule – update on case
law post B-S
• Abduction – review of recent Supreme Court cases
17:15 Close of day one
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Criminal
DAY 1
24 February
08:30Registration
09:00 Regulatory and Corporate
Offending: Sentencing Update (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Mark Watson, Barrister, Six Pump Court
• The draft Sentencing Council Guideline on Health
& safety offences, corporate manslaughter and food
safety and hygiene offences
• Recent health & safety, food safety and fire safety
sentencing cases
• Recent Proceeds of Crime Act cases in regulatory field
Speaker: Christopher Badger, Barrister, Six Pump Court
• Changes in sentencing following R v Sellafield;
R v Network Rail
• The environmental sentencing guideline
• Corporate manslaughter update
• Other recent sentencing developments in
regulatory law
10:30
15:30 Update on the Criminal Procedure
Rules (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Narita Bahra, Barrister, Jonathan Laidlaw QC
• Introduction to Criminal Procedure Rules
• The overriding objective
• Court case management powers and Criminal Practice
Directions 2013
• Discussion on particular areas for example rules 2736 which cover hearsay, bad character and special
measures
• Set exercises/Q&As on the above
17:00
Close of Day One
Total 6 hours training
Morning Refreshments
11:00 Mental health issues at the police
station (1.5 hrs)
Speakers:Francis Fitzgibbon, QC and Kirsty Brimelow,
QC, Doughty Street Chambers
• Familiarity with signs of mental illness/impairment
• The custody record
• ‘Mentally vulnerable offenders’: PACE Code C
• Role of mental health professionals
12:30
Lunch
13:30 Implications of getting it wrong at
the police station (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Peter Bartlett, Practising criminal defence advocate and member of the Duty Solicitor scheme
• The right to silence – a crucial choice
• Mental illness and capacity – the advisors role
• The prepared statement – the importance of content
and timing
15:00 Afternoon tea
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Contract & Commercial
DAY 1
24 February
08:45Registration
15:15 Afternoon tea
09:15 Best practice for outsourcing contracts
15:45 Commercial contracts: lessons from the last 12 months (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Sam De Silva, Partner, Penningtons Manches LLP
• Considering the appropriateness of post-contract
verification
• Latest developments in limitations and exclusions of liability
• Getting the benchmarking provisions right
• Ensuring a balanced approach to step-in rights
• Best practice for contract renewals and exit management.
Speaker: Mark Lucas, Partner, Barlow Robbins
• How to interpret
• How to draft and how not to draft
• Developments and trends in the law
17:15 Close of conference
10:45 Morning refreshments
11:15 New Consumer Rights Act (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Matthew Gough, Partner, Eversheds LLP
• Introduction and background to this significant
change to consumer law
• Changes applying to the supply of goods, including
new statutory remedies
• The supply of services to consumers and the key
changes in consumer law
• Digital products and the new specific laws applying to
the supply of such products
• Unfair contract terms and important changes
• Summary of the key changes
12:45Lunch
13:45 Insolvency: The top ten things every commercial lawyer needs to know (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Steven Allinson, Consultant Solicitor and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, Lester Aldridge
• The test of Insolvency - recent legal developments
• Administration; when to use and the steps to undertake
• Pre –packaged Administrations-how to ensure the
creditors are onside
• Secured Creditors and Insolvency: what role should they play
• Company Voluntary Arrangements - an underused
rescue procedure
• Directors and Insolvency: understanding their risks
• Buying from an Insolvency Practitioner; what should
be in the agreement
• Challenges by the Insolvency Practitioner: are your
agreements at risk?
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Commercial Property
DAY 2
25 February
08:30Registration
15:00 Afternoon tea
09:00 Update (1.5 hrs)
15:30 Environmental issues (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Lina Mattsson, Barrister, Hardwicke
Speaker: Malcolm Dowden, Consultant, Charles Russell LLP
• Contaminated land: what effect will removal of local
authority funding have on clean-up costs?
• Contaminated land exclusion tests
• Understanding environmental permits
• Enforcement, prosecutions and civil sanctions
An update of commercial property law with a look at tenants’
applications for a new tenancy and landlords’ grounds for
refusal under the 1954 Act and then moving onto forfeiture
and Section 146 notices
• Applying for a new tenancy - Lie v Mohile considered
• Grounds for refusing a new tenancy –Youssefi v
Mussellwhite considered
• The requirements of s 146 notices – Anders v
Haralambous considered
• Forfeiture – peaceful re-entry v possession proceedings,
tactics and considerations
17:00 Close of conference
10:00 Solving title problems with defective
title indemnity insurance (1hr)
Speaker: Robert Kelly, Commercial Business Development Manager, Stewart Title
• When to use Defective Title Insurance?
• Tailoring the Policy wording to your clients’ needs
• Reporting to your client on their obligations under a
policy
• Taking the benefit of an existing Defective Title policy
11:00 Morning refreshments
11:30 Operating break clauses (1.5 hrs)
Speaker: John de Waal, QC, Hardwicke
• Successfully operating break clauses on behalf of your
client
• Service of notice
• Complying with conditions – vacant possession; material
compliance with covenants
• Payment and recovery of rent
13:00Lunch
14:00 Unenforceable guarantees:
AGAS, SAGAS, and GAGAS (1hr)
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Private Client
DAY 2
25 February
08:45Registration
Speaker: Jonathan Auburn, Barrister, 39 Essex Street
Chambers
09:15 Introduction to private client law
17:25 Close of conference
Speaker: Daniel Curran, Managing Director, Finders
International Probate Genealogists
09:25 Wills and Probate update (1.5 hrs)
Speaker: Constance McDonnell, Barrister, 3 Stone Building
This session will analyse recent case law concerning:
• Challenges to the validity of wills
• 1975 Act claims
• Removal of trustees and PRs
10:55 Morning refreshments
11:25 Domicile and succession – (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Jo Summers, Partner, PWT Advice
• Determining domicile for succession purposes
• Other countries’ concept of domicile
• Dealing with conflicts of law
• Will EU certification of succession help or hinder?
• Will drafting and probate issues
12:55 Alzheimer’s Society – Afternoon
introduction to private client law
Speaker: Mike Hilder
13:05 Lunch
14:05 Wills and Inheritance Quality
Scheme (1.5 hrs)
Speaker: John Bunker, Tax Solicitor, Lecturer in Wills, Tax,
Trusts & Estates, and technical & training leader, Thomas Eggar LLP
• The Law Society’s WIQS scheme: what does it mean
for drafting Wills in practice?
• How can WIQS both help risk management and show
a “quality mark” offering?
• How does it compare with the STEP Wills Code,
introduced in April 2014 following WIQS?
• What about the SRA Guidance on Drafting Wills which
came out in May?
• With so much will “regulation”, what can be learned
from WIQS, even if not taken up?
15:35 Afternoon tea
15:55 The Care Bill (1.5hrs)
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Employment
DAY 2
25 February
08:45Registration
15:45 Enforcement of case management
orders in the employment
tribunal (1.5hrs)
09:15 Holiday Pay: Holidays from hell
(1.5hrs)
10:45 Morning refreshments
Speaker: Laurence Anstis, Associate Solicitor, (Employment
and Business Immigration Law) Boyes Turner LLP
• What are the consequences of breach of an
employment tribunal’s case management order?
• What can you do if your opponent doesn’t comply
with an employment tribunal’s case management
order?
• Does “Mitchell” apply in the employment tribunal?
• How can a party obtain relief from sanctions in the
employment tribunal?
11:15 Whistleblowing (1.5hrs)
17:15 Close of conference
Speaker: Paul Epstein, QC, Cloisters
• Holidays and sickness
• What is included in calculation of holiday pay –
commission, bonuses, overtime etc.
• Practical issues – for what period can the employee
claim, and where
• Risk mitigation for the employer
Speaker: Casper Glyn, QC, Cloisters
• What now constitutes ‘the public interest’?
• Is there still mileage in bringing claims based on
breaches of one’s own contract?
• What is the result of the abolition of the good faith
test for protected disclosures?
• Who falls within the new test for vicarious liability?
12:45Lunch
13:45 Shared Parental Leave (1.5hrs)
Speaker: Katie Clark, Partner, McDermott Will & Emery
UK LLP and Paul McGrath, Associate,
McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP
• Who is eligible take it? How much leave can each
parent take and when?
• What process must be followed?
• How much of the leave should be paid? And at what
level (statutory or enhanced)…?
• What protections apply to employees on shared
parental leave?
• Practical tips on making and dealing with requests for
leave
15:15 Afternoon tea
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Civil Litigation
DAY 2
25 February
08:30Registration
15:30 Afternoon tea
09:00 Litigating in the post-Mitchell
world (1.5hrs)
16:00Shareholder Rights: review of procedure and case studies (1hr)
Speaker: Monty Trent, District Judge
• Looking closely at the principles identified in the
Mitchell case in the context of the Civil Procedure
Rules changes
• How have the courts reacted; the winners and losers?
• The impact on cost budgeting
• 10 ways to avoid sanctions
• How to get off the naughty step
10:30 Morning refreshments
11:00 Part 36 and refusing to mediate
(PGF II) (1.5hrs)
Speaker: John Sykes, Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys LLP
and Charlotte Pender, Senior Associate, Charles
Russell Speechlys LLP
• Outline of Minority Shareholders’ Rights
• Unfair Prejudice Petitions – procedure and when to use
them/when not to use them
• The Principles of Quasi-Partnership
• Just and Equitable Winding-up – procedural points
• Share valuations
• Reasons for the rise in Shareholder Activism
17:00 Close of conference
Speaker: Daniel Gatty, Barrister, Hardwicke
• Offers to settle under and outside CPR Part 36
• The effects of such offers on costs, if they are accepted
and if they are refused
• Changes to CPR Part 36 following the Jackson report:
The Offers to Settle in Civil Proceedings Order 2013
and the amended CPR 36.14
• The costs consequences of refusing to mediate: PGF II
SA v OMFS, Swain Mason v Mills & Reeve and Halsey v
Milton Keynes General NHS Trust
12:30Lunch
13:30 Costs update (1hr)
Speaker: Master Peter Howorth, Costs Judge,
Royal Courts of Justice
• Recent key costs decisions
• Dealing with proportionality
•Budgeting
• Provisional assessment
• Current problem areas
14:30 Enforcement (1hr)
Speaker: Chris Badger, Director of Enforcement & AHCEO,
The Sheriffs Office
• An overview of High Court Enforcement
• Writs of Control
• Writs of Possession
• Writs of Delivery
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Law Firm Management
DAY 2
25 February
08:30Registration
09:00 Economic outlook for 2015 (1hr)
Speaker: To be announced
10:00 Client Satisfaction – the real
battleground for independent law
firms (45mins)
Speaker: Chris Marston, Chief Executive, LawNet
• Future of legal services will be fought in the arena of
client service
• It’s everyone’s job, not a department
• What we learned from mystery shopping
• What we learned from client satisfaction surveys
• The things that matter most: • first impressions
• following up
•communication
• phone skills
• Embedding firm-wide cultural change
10:45 Morning refreshments
11:45 Law firm finance (1hr)
Speaker: To be announced
12:45Lunch
13:30 Partnerships (45 mins)
Speaker: To be announced
14:15 Branding and marketing (45 mins)
Speaker: To be announced
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Technology update (45 mins)
Speaker: To be announced
16:15 Risk & compliance (1hr)
Speaker: To be announced
17:30 Close of conference
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Agenda SJ Live
Speaker Biographies
DAY 1
Stephen Allison
Narita Bahra
Stream: Contract & Commercial Law
Day: One
Stream: Criminal Law
Day: One
Stephen has specialised in credit, debt and insolvency
work since 1987, and has extensive experience in dealing
with the full range of these procedures. Prior to setting up
his own consultancy in 2008, he was a Business Recovery
and Insolvency partner at a major law firm. He currently
undertakes work for Lester Aldridge Solicitors as well as
pursuing other projects in the legal, insolvency and credit
fields.
His client base includes all the major Insolvency and
Recovery practices as well as significant national and
international companies in the fields of debt recovery.
In addition he has had much experience working for HM
Revenue and Customs and The Insolvency Service on
their recovery work. As well as being a Solicitor Licensed
Insolvency Practitioner, he is also an Associate Member of the
Association of Property and Fixed Charge Receivers.
Christopher Badger
Stream: Criminal Law
Day: One
Christopher Badger has an established practice in
commercial regulatory investigations and prosecutions,
acting on behalf of corporate and individual defendants
and the Crown. High profile cases in which he has recently
been instructed include Environment Agency v WB Ltd, the
largest environmental case of its kind for the illegal export of
waste abroad and Walker & Son (Hauliers) Ltd v Environment
Agency [2014] EWCA Crim 100, the leading authority on the
construction of ‘knowingly permitting’ in the Environmental
Permitting Regulations.
He is often asked to provide early stage advice into ongoing investigations, both pre-interview and pre-charge.
Recent written advice and lectures have included issues on
environmental liabilities for private investors, training on the
new Environmental Offences Sentencing Guideline and other
topics including the definition of waste and confiscation in
environmental prosecutions.
“Recommended by Chambers UK 2014
in Environment Law (Band 2)”
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Narita Bahra is a defence barrister specialising in serious
crime and fraud. She practises from 2 Hare Court, the
Chambers of Jonathan Laidlaw QC. Her experience covers
the full spectrum of criminal offences, and in recent years has
seen her focus - increasingly as a leading junior - on cases
of terrorism, murder, organised crime (including overseas
drug cartels, firearms and armed robbery) and serious sexual
offences, particularly those involving historic allegations.
She has experience of complex fraud (including VAT, banking,
boiler room, mortgage and “Ponzi” scheme fraud) and
money laundering cases, as well as a thorough knowledge
of ancillary proceedings such as criminal confiscation, asset
forfeiture and restraint.
Narita is also instructed in quasi-criminal and regulatory
proceedings, and in particular represents professionals such
as accountants, financial advisors and solicitors, as well as
senior executives, facing charges relating to dishonesty or
corruption in business practices.
Recent work includes the successful defence of a client facing
a nine count, multiple complainant, historic rape indictment,
and an attempted murder case in which the Crown – on
the direction of the judge - offered no evidence against her
client prior to the conclusion of its case, following Narita’s
successful arguments on flawed disclosure.
Peter Barlett
Stream:
Day: One
Solicitor admitted 1970
For many years Principal of a General Practice
35 years practise and experience as a criminal defence
advocate. Joined Police Station and Court duty schemes at
their inception in 1984. Current Court and Police Station Duty
scheme membership. Tutored criminal and civil advocacy
modules of the Legal Practise Course. Tutor in electives
of PSC. Delivered training in Criminal Law, Evidence and
Procedure throughout the UK. Accredited Mediator
Guest speaker at European Conference of Advocates
International (amongst others)
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Kirsty Brimelow
Sam De Silva
Stream: Criminal Law
Day: One
Stream: Contract & Commercial
Day: One
Kirsty Brimelow QC is a leading practitioner in criminal,
international and human rights law, recognized in the legal
directories. She is Chairwoman of the Bar Human Rights
Committee of England and Wales. She was twice listed in
Management Today as one of the most influential women in
the UK. She was listed as “lawyer of the week” by the Times.
She is contributing author to Lexis Nexis and Westlaw and
delivers the annual seminar on criminal law and human
rights at the Justice/ Sweet and Maxwell Conference.
Currently, she is representing Amnesty International against
the Security Services.
Simon Bruce
Stream: Family Law
Day: One
Simon is at the pinnacle of the profession. He is one of the
most sought out lawyers for prominent individuals needing
personal advice. Simon is trained as a mediator, and practises
as a collaborative lawyer on international cases. His particular
expertise is in advising UK and international individuals,
families, trustees, beneficiaries and family offices. His cases
often involve complex child-related issues, confidentiality
and pre-marital agreements, trusts and tax. Simon’s track
record for obtaining the best possible outcome for his clients
has seen him involved in the past three family law cases that
have reached the Supreme Court.
“A phenomenal operator and a dedicated lawyer”
(Chambers & Partners, 2013)
Dr Sam De Silva is a Partner and the Head of the IT and
Outsourcing practice at Penningtons Manches LLP. Sam
specialises in IT and telecommunication projects including all
forms of cloud computing (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), outsourcing
(IT, BPO and off-shoring), system development and supply,
system integration, software licensing, support and service
agreements. He is the only private practice lawyer in the UK to
be appointed to the EU Commission’s Expert Group on Cloud
Computing Contracts. Sam is the UK solicitor representative
on the IT Committee of the Bars and Law Societies of Europe
(CCBE). At the national level, he is the immediate past Chair of
the Law Society’s Technology and Law Reference Group. Sam
is on the Global Board of Trustees for the Chartered Institute
of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). Sam has written and spoken
extensively on IT and outsourcing and is regularly called upon
by the industry as a thought leader in these areas. He has been
interviewed in the press, radio, webinars and on television.
Sam is also one of very few UK solicitors who is a Fellow of
the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (FCIPS),
Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a Chartered
IT Professional (CITP). Sam has post-graduate degrees in
information technology and business administration so is well
aware of the commercial, business and technical issues facing
both users and suppliers of technology. Sam also has in-house
industry legal experience having been seconded to Accenture
UK as a Senior Legal Counsel. He is recognised as a leading
individual for IT in the most recent editions of the Legal 500
and Chambers & Partners directories. As well as being a
qualified English law solicitor, Dr De Silva is also a Barrister and
Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and a Solicitor of
the Supreme Court of New South Wales, Australia.
Margaret de Valois
Adrian Carr
Stream: Family Law
Day: One
Stream: Residential Property
Day: One
Adrian was called to the Bar in 1999 and is a barrister at
Tanfield Chambers in London. He specialises in property law
with an emphasis on contentious and non-contentious real
property, trusts, wills, probate and administration of estates
work. Adrian also practises in all aspects of landlord and
tenant and is the General Editor of the 3rd Edition (2013) of
Tanfield Chambers’ book, Service Charges and Management,
one of the leading textbooks on this area of law.
Margaret is a high profile and active member of the UK
Actuarial Profession, having spent over 18 years advising
companies around the world on pension scheme strategy
and change. She has experienced life in a variety of City
financial services organisations, including two of the “big 4”
accounting practises, a well known asset manager and large
global bank and now acts as an independent consultant.
A keen musician and sports woman, Margaret believes that
ensuring people understand pensions is key to getting
the retirement culture in the UK right and that a focus on
keeping things simple is key.
Margaret is elective chair of the Actuarial Profession’s
Finance and Investment Research Committee and is a BBC
recognised expert on pension policy matters, appearing on
TV regularly. She tweets from @devaloispens and blogs at
www.margaretdevalois.com.
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Malcom Dowden
Andrew Hedley
Stream: Residential Property
Day: One
Stream: Skills for Lawyers
Day: One
Qualified in 1994, Malcolm Dowden is a solicitor and
accredited legal trainer with extensive experience of property
matters. He retains a role as consultant to City law firm
Charles Russell, combining that role with training on general
property, land law, landlord and tenant, and environmental
issues. Malcolm is the author of a Practitioner’s Guide to the
Land Registration Act 2002 (EG books, 2004) and a frequent
contributor to legal and professional journals including the
Estates Gazette and the New Law Journal.
Francis Fitzgibbon
Stream: Criminal Law
Day: One
A respected contributor to specialist management publications,
authority on strategy and frequent conference keynote speaker,
Andrew is the author of The Law Firm Merger: A Leader’s
Guide to Strategy & Realisation (2014), Client Strategy in a
Changing Legal Market (2011) and Developing Strategic Client
Relationships(2008). Andrew holds Fellowships of the Institute
of Directors, the Strategic Planning Society, the Chartered
Management Institute, Cambridge Marketing College and the
Royal Society of Art.
Hedley Consulting is recognised as a leading boutique
strategy consultancy to the legal sector.
Francis FitzGibbon QC is a highly regarded specialist criminal
silk, practising at Doughty Street Chambers, London, and
Trinity Chambers, Newcastle. He has extensive experience in
homicide, fraud, drugs cases and other serious crime. He has
consistently featured as a leader in criminal law in Chambers
& Partners Directory.
Francis is a contributing author for A Practitioner’s Guide to
the Law and Regulation of Financial Crime (Sweet & Maxwell
2011). He sits as an Immigration Judge, which has enriched
his understanding of human rights law.
Matthew Gough
Stream: Contract & Commercial Law
Day: One
Matthew is a Partner in Eversheds Commercial practice
group. He specialises in commercial law, particularly in the
areas of intellectual property, information technology and
commercial contracts. Matthew is rated as a Band 1 Leader
in his field by Chambers Guide To The Legal Profession which
states that Matthew’s team is “meticulous and immensely
practical” and that he is “incredibly dedicated to serving his
clients’ interests” and he is also a leader in the Legal 500.
a member of the Law Society’s Reference Group on
Consumer Law and regularly meets with the Government
to discuss the proposed changes in this areas. He is a guest
speaker with a number of organisations including UK Trade
and Investment and the University Of Bristol’s Msc.
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Andrew Hedley advises law firm leaders on issues of vision,
strategy and change. Alongside project engagements, he is
a sought-after strategy group guide, partner retreat speaker,
workshop facilitator and coach.
Mark Lucas
Stream: Contract & Commercial Law
Day: One
Mark Lucas advises on mergers and acquisitions, commercial
contracts, shareholder arrangements and partnership law.
He really enjoys identifying and achieving the right solutions
and outcomes for clients and strongly believes that good
service consists of excellent and responsive communication
and the creation of long-lasting solutions that reduce
complexity, delay and risk.
His particular expertise is in advising schools on mergers
and in relation to their commercial contracts and other
commercial issues. He is the chair of the governing body at
a very successful prep school in West Sussex and have served
as a member of the Law Society’s Company Law Committee.
He is regular contributor to the Solicitors’ Journal, for which
he writes a quarterly update on commercial contract law.
Dennis Sharpe
Stream: Family Law
Day: One
Dennis was called to the Bar in 1976 and after many years
of general common law practice has specialised in family
law and, in particular, in cases relating to care proceedings
involving children. He also appears in many wardship cases. He
has law degrees from the Universities of Exeter and Oxford and
is a fluent French speaker having been educated at the French
Lycée and St Paul’s. He also has considerable experience of
medical issues as they arise in care proceedings for example in
what are known as shaken baby cases. He was Counsel for the
successful applicant in the Court of Appeal in Re G 2013 EWCA
Civ 965, one of the cases that followed on from the Supreme
Court in Re B. He also advises in contested probate claims.
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Karen Webb
Stream: Residential Property
Day: One
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Day: One
Paul qualified as a solicitor and after a stint in local
government and a property company ran his own High
Street practice for many years dealing with all sorts of
property cases. After selling his practice Paul devoted his
time to continuing professional development, lectures and
webinars to which he is able to bring a good deal of practical
experience and a knowledge of what it is like at the “coal
face” of conveyancing”.
Mark Watson
Stream: Criminal Law
Day: One
“Specialist regulatory barrister shortlisted by Chambers &
Partners in 2013 for the Health & Safety Junior of the Year
award, having specialised in regulatory law for more than
15 years. Represents regulators and defendants in a broad
range of areas, including health & safety, fire safety, maritime
safety, environmental law, food safety and consumer
protection. Currently instructed in a number of high profile
fatal accident cases and serious environmental pollution
incidents. Appointed to the Regulatory Panel “A” list.”
Karen qualified as a solicitor in 1997 and joined Coffin Mew
in 2001. She has been a partner with the firm since 2008.
As well as overseeing the Residential Property Team, Karen
also heads up the New Homes Team at Coffin Mew which is
a team specialising in the purchase of new build properties.
She also heads up the developers plot sale team. Karen has
over 25 years’ experience of working for developers and
housing associations selling new build properties and has
previously worked in house for a national developer. Karen
is known for her extensive and rounded knowledge of the
new homes market from both a developers and plot buyers
perspective. This specialism includes knowledge of planning
agreements, CML requirements, Help to Buy and other
affordable initiatives.
Speaker Biographies
DAY 2
Laurence Anstis
Stream: Employment Law
Day: Two
Laurie Anstis is a senior associate with Boyes Turner LLP,
specialising in employment law and business immigration.
Carlyn Weale
Stream: Skills for Lawyers
Day: One
Carlyn Weale is a Solicitor Advocate and an experienced
Dispute Resolution Lawyer.
He runs the Work/Life/Law employment law blog, sits as a
fee-paid employment judge in the Birmingham region and
will chair the Law Society’s Employment Law Committee
from September 2014.
Carlyn was admitted as a solicitor in 2008. She obtained Civil
Higher Courts of Audience in early 2013. She is currently
studying for a Masters in Advocacy (LLM) at the University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Carlyn has recently joined the Dispute Resolution Team
at Davis Blank Furniss in Manchester in a new role as an
advocate and senior solicitor managing her own commercial
litigation caseload. She plays an active role in business
development and in-house training.
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Jonathan Auburn
Stream: Private Client
Day: Two
Jonathan has a large practice in all areas of community
care law (adults and children) for both local authorities and
individuals. He has acted in the most important recent cases,
including R (KM) v Cambridgeshire CC, Supreme Court, 2012,
and Westminster CC v SL, Supreme Court, 2013. Jonathan
is rated by Chambers and Partners as the highest ranked
junior for community care work. He is also highly ranked
for Administrative & Public Law, Local Government Law and
Education Law. Jonathan has recently acted in reported cases
on care home funding disputes, age assessment disputes,
mental capacity cases and SEN cases. He is a co-author of
OUP’s new practitioner’s text Judicial Review: Principles and
Procedure (2013) and edits the White Book.
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Chris Badger
John de Waal QC
Stream: Civil Litigation
Day: Two
Stream: Commercial Property
Day: Two
Chris Badger is responsible for the successful enforcement of
High Court writs and the associated legal processes relating of
all aspects of High Court enforcement. This includes working
closely with the large team of field based enforcement agents,
the office-based pre-enforcement team and the in-house
Legal department.
Chris started his career in High Court enforcement over 12
years ago, prior to the deregulation of Sheriffs in April 2004. He
was appointed an Authorised High Court Enforcement Officer
by Senior Master Turner in November 2007 and is one of the
youngest authorised officers in the country.
Chris has significant expertise in dealing with Court
applications at the Royal Courts of Justice, including
interpleader proceedings, tools of the trade and sale by
private treaty applications, as well as a wealth of experience in
managing specialist and high profile writ executions.
John Bunker
Stream: Private Client Law
Day: Two
John is a freelance lecturer and trainer, who is also Head of
Private Client Knowledge Management of Thomas Eggar
LLP. With 28 years of experience as a specialist solicitor, John
lectures on wills, trusts, estates and inheritance tax planning,
seeking to bring subjects alive with enthusiasm and practical
insight to illuminate technical issues. For 15 years John was
responsible for his firm’s in-house will precedents, then
managed the switch to an external provider, and since 2012
is responsible for technical and training within the private
client practice group of Thomas Eggar.
John de Waal QC specialises in chancery and commercial
work with a particular focus on property law and propertyrelated professional negligence. He is regularly instructed in
complex property-related litigation in the Chancery Division
and Court of Appeal, and has appeared in the House of
Lords. John’s professional negligence is mainly focused on
defendant work.
Paul Epstein
Stream: Employment Law
Day: Two
Paul is an employment and discrimination practitioner. He
also practises in commercial and regulatory work. Over the
past year he has advised on a number of working time issues.
Paul was elected chair of his professional body, the
Employment Law Bar Association, for a two-year term in
2009. In 2012, he was elected a bencher of Middle Temple,
he was also elected a member of the Employment Lawyers’
Association management committee and became a trained
mediator. He teaches advocacy for Middle Temple, lectures
widely, including to EU judges at the EU judicial training
college in Trier, Germany, and in Poland, and has appeared
on radio and television discussing employment matters.
As an appellate lawyer Paul has considerable experience,
appearing in the EAT, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme
Court. As a trial lawyer he is noted for his cross-examination
skills.
Daniel Gatty
Stream: Civil Litigation
Day: Two
Katie Clark
Stream: Employment Law
Day: Two
Katie Clark is a Partner and Head of the UK Employment
Group at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP. Her clients
include global corporations, financial institutions, FTSE 100
companies, manufacturing companies, service providers and
start-ups. Katie has experience across the whole spectrum
of employment advice, but with particular experience
of litigating complex employment disputes, including in
relation to team moves, bonus claims and discrimination.
She is also an experienced advocate, representing clients
before the Employment Tribunal. Katie has been recognised
as a leader in her field in the legal directories for a number of
years.
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Daniel Gatty specialises in property litigation including
landlord and tenant, real property, land registration,
mortgages and secured lending, and enfranchisement.
He has recently appeared in the Supreme Court in Scott
v Southern Pacific Mortgages Ltd (judgment awaited);
other reported cases include Mortgage Business plc v
O’Shaughnessy [2012] 1 WLR 1521, Franks v Chief Land
Registrar [2012] 1 All ER 326, Seeff v Ho [2011] PLSCS 102,
Family Mosaic HA v Pimlico School HA [2011] All ER (D)
18 (Dec). Daniel’s practice also encompasses professional
negligence (usually property related) and commercial/
Chancery disputes, and he is also an accredited mediator. He
is recommended as a leading junior for property litigation in
The Legal 500 and Chambers UK.
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Casper Glyn
Chris Marston
Stream: Employment Law
Day: Two
Stream: Law Firm Management
Day: Two
Caspar advises on contentious disputes and is a trial and
appellate lawyer.
His practice covers the whole width of the employment
relationship, contractual (including injunctive relief ) and
regulatory sports’ disputes and other linked contractual
and commercial claims including civil fraud and breach
of fiduciary duty. His work generally affects hundreds /
thousands of employees, sets national precedents, are test
cases, are of very high value, seriously affect the reputations
of other employees or owners or the business itself or are a
combination of these.
He is Chair of the Industrial Law Society.
A career banker, Marston was previously head of professional
practices at Lloyds Banking Group, leading a team of
specialist bankers, in a role that was established at his
instigation.
He is a member of the Law Society’s Law Management
Section and was keynote speaker at the Law Society’s
Law Management Section Finance & Business Forum in
November 2014.
As well as a long history of working with the legal sector,
he spent many years in commercial banking, working with
owner-managed businesses of all sizes.
Master Peter Haworth
Stream: Civil Litigation
Day: Two
Peter Haworth was appointed a Master and Cost Judge at
the Senior Court Costs Office in July 2006. Before that he was
a solicitor in private practice in North East Lancashire for 32
years specializing in professional/clinical negligence and
Construction disputes. He has been, and remains, a Deputy
District Judge on the Northern Circuit for 22 years and was a
Deputy Costs Master for five years.
Peter is a former member of the Civil Procedure Rules
Committee. He has been Chairman and member of various
Tribunals, including the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Over
the years, Peter has lectured extensively to the profession
on costs and related subjects and is a tutor at the Judicial
College. When not at the SCCO he spends his time sailing or
hot air ballooning.
Robert Kelly
Stream: Commercial Property
Day: Two
Commercial Business Development Manager
Robert joined Stewart Title in 2013 after 25 years of
experience as a Commercial Property lawyer specialising
in development and portfolio management. During his
career, has worked with regional and national developers,
retailers and landowners on a wide variety of schemes. This
experience plays a vital part in his role working closely with
interested parties to use Indemnity Insurance to resolve title
problems and facilitate development and use of property.
Robert regularly gives CPD presentations on the benefits of
Indemnity Insurance and writes for a number of journals and
online sites on topics related to title defects and Indemnity
Insurance.
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Chris Marston is chief executive of member network LawNet,
one of the leading providers of specialist support for law
firms in the UK and Ireland.
He has been closely involved with law firms throughout the
recent changes experienced by the sector and understands
the challenges, and the need for commerciality.
Lina Mattsson
Stream: Commercial Property
Day: Two
Lina joined Hardwicke in September 2011. She specialises
in residential and commercial property, commercial and
insurance disputes.
Lina has a particularly busy landlord and tenant practice.
She regularly deals with possession/forfeiture, disrepair,
service charges, breach of covenant, unlawful eviction,
anti-social behaviour, committals and Mobile Homes claims.
She undertakes a range of work in real property, including
adverse possession, boundary disputes, restrictive covenants,
easements and claims to equitable interests in land.
Lina’s academic background focused on human rights
and in 2011 she was led in the Supreme Court in R (on the
application of Aguilar Quila) v Secretary of State for the Home
Department [2012] 1 AC 621 successfully challenging the 21
age bar on spouse visas on human rights grounds
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Constance McDonnell
Monty Trent
Stream: Private Client
Day: Two
Stream: Civil Litigation Law
Day: Two
Constance McDonnell is a barrister at 3 Stone Buildings,
Lincoln’s Inn. She has a traditional Chancery practice with an
emphasis on contentious trusts and probate, and associated
litigation including 1975 Act claims, claims to remove
personal representatives and disputes arising in the context
of the administration of trusts and estates. She has appeared
during the last two years in several highly publicised High
Court cases, including Schrader v Schrader (will procured by
undue influence), Vegetarian Society v Scott (schizophrenic
testator) and Sheffield v Sheffield (in which she defended a
professional trustee against allegations of breach of trust).
Constance is recommended as a Leading Junior (Band 1) by
Chambers & Partners 2015.
In April 2014 Judge Monty Trent retired, after 20 years practice
as a solicitor in a busy London West End partnership and a
further 22 years as a District Judge, serving at The Mayor’s
and City of London Court. He was a founder member of the
Civil Justice Council, where he served for 10 years, and was
appointed President of The Association of HM District Judges
in 2010. Monty is a contributor to Jordan’s Civil Court Practice,
‘the Brown Book’, has written and lectured on legal and
procedural matters, and taught as an external Reader at LSE.
Paul McGrath
Stream: Employment Law
Day: Two
Paul McGrath is an Associate in the UK Employment Group
at McDermott Will & Emery UK LLP. His practice covers all
aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment
law acting for a wide array of clients. His recent Employment
Tribunal experience includes a number of pregnancy and
maternity discrimination cases. Paul has experience also of
working in-house in the IT and banking sectors.
Jo Summers
Stream: Private Client Law
Day: Two
Jo specializes in personal taxation, particularly with an
international element. She advises on offshore trusts,
offshore pensions (including QROPS and QNUPS) and
other international structures (such as EBTs and EFRBS), UK
personal tax, estate planning, and charities.
Jo writes frequently and co-wrote a book on Shari’a
succession laws, Islamic Wills, Trusts and Estates: Planning
for this World and the Next, and wrote A UK Handbook for
Offshore Trustees. She lectures extensively both in the UK
and overseas.
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