Commercial Team Annual Seminar 2024
23/07/2024
The Bristol Hotel,
Prince Street,
Bristol,
UK
2nd October 2024
9am - 4:30pm
Our Annual Commercial Seminar returns on Wednesday 2nd October 2024 at the The Bristol Hotel.
Details of the day are below.
Please follow this link for more details and to book your place. We look forward to seeing you there.
Agenda for the day
Morning Session
- 09:00 – 09:30 Registration
- 9:30 – 12:25 Legal Masterclasses:
A series of 4 x 40-minute mini-seminars (including a 5 minute changeover), led by members of Guildhall Chambers , with mid-morning coffee break at 10:55-11:10.
Room 1 – Company, Joint Venture & Partnership Law session
- 9:30 – 10:10 – Unfair prejudice petitions – a review of hot topics and common problems –led by Lottie Mallin-Martin and Jack Brett
- 10:15 – 10:55 – Remedies in partnership dissolution cases: is a buyout (per Syers v Syers (1876) 1 App. Cas. 174) still available following the decisions in Bahia [2024] EWCA Civ 605 and Cobden [2024] EWHC 1581 (Ch) – led by Stefan Ramel
- 11:10 – 11:50 – Maximising recovery in the context of asset dissipation: transactions defrauding creditors and other remedies – led by James Hannant and Govinder Chambay
- 11:55 – 12:35 – Raising Lazarus and the Common Law Derivative Action– led by Professor Christopher Hare
Room 2 – Financial Services session
- 9:30 – 10:10 – Appointed representatives and approved persons – the latest word on s.39 FSMA from the Court of Appeal in KVB & Others v Kession Capital Limited & Others [2024] EWCA Civ 765 – led by Hugh Sims KC and Jay Jagasia
- 10:15 – 10:55– Cryptoassets: latest developments and case law update – led by Lucy Walker as well as as well as input from 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻, and 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘁 of 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗻.
- 11:10 – 11:50 – The Consumer Duty: one year on – led by Holly Doyle and Nick Evans
- 11:55 – 12:25 – Bridging Loans: a new source of claims? – led by Ollie Murrell
- 12:25 – 12:35 – APP Update
Lunch- 12:35 – 13:30
13.30 – 14:00 Chair’s Address from HHJ Russen KC, Bristol Circuit Commercial Court
14:00-16:50 Practical Focus Sessions
14:00 – 16:15 Afternoon Session – Practical Focus
A series of workshops on practical topics of interest – refreshments drunk during workshops
- 14:35 – 15:20 – Solicitor & own client costs disputes (45 mins) – Led by John Churchill
- 15:25 – 16:05 – Interim Injunctions – with a business protection focus (45 mins) – Led by Allan Roberts & Lottie Mallin-Martin
- 16:10 – 16:50 – Freezing orders, image & search orders – latest precedents, developments and urgent cases (45 mins) – Led by James Wibberley and Richard Ascroft
16:50 – 17:05 – Closing remarks – from HHJ Russen KC
17:05 – Drinks