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Banking & Financial Services
The implications of Spectrum

Charity Law
Campaigning by charities

Charities Act 2006 : the pursuit of the public benefit
Charities that charge: the impact of the Charities Bill
Charity law update

Commercial and Contractual Disputes
Anti-suit injunctions

Challenging arbitration awards in the English courts
Claims for breach of confidence in commercial situations
Commercial contracts - recent developments
Commercial contracts: new developments relating to the rights of rejection, termination and damages
Commercial litigation update
Economic Torts
Emergency procedures in the High Court - a practical guide for in-house counsel
Gain based damages
Interpreting commercial contracts
Pensions update for the commercial lawyer
Privilege
Restitution and unjust enrichment - where are we now?
Strategy and tactics in warranty claims
The Commercial Agents Regulations 1993 : 15 years on and is the fog at last beginning to clear?
The ten most significant cases of the last 12 months - for the commercial lawyer
When is an agreement not a contract?

Commercial Chancery Litigation
Attacking and defending expert witnesses

Constructive trusts and equitable remedies in business litigation
Costs against third parties
Human rights - the real benefits and pitfalls : a guide for company, insolvency and commercial litigators
Innominate torts: claims in conspiracy, interference with business and misfeasance in public office
Legal principles and pitfalls in expert determinations - a guide for accountants
Litigation Guarantees: Surety v Creditor
Litigation update: practice and procedures
Recent developments in securities and guarantees
Recent developments in the law relating to breach of fiduciary duty
Recovery without Distress? Enforcement by landlords under the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
The ambit of legal professional privilege
The Modern Commercial/Chancery Bar

Company
Companies Act 2006

Directors' duties and derivative claims
Diversion of corporate opportunity: the tangled web
Minority shareholder disputes
Non-executive directors - the effect of Higgs and the Statutory Code
Shareholders' remedies and rights

Equitable Remedies and Principles
Equitable remedies and constructive trusts

Fraud : Civil
A litigator's guide to freezing injunctions

Bringing and defending commercial fraud cases
Carousel fraud
Freezing orders and disclosure
Money laundering
The concept of dishonesty in civil litigation
The Impact and Consequences of Fraud in the Financial Sector

Insolvency and Corporate Recovery
Insolvency update

Maximising recovery in insolvency cases
Pensions update for the insolvency lawyer
The Bankrupt's Home
The Enterprise Act
The Enterprise Act - a creditor's charter?
The uses and abuses of trust, escrow accounts and similar arrangements

Partnership
Issues for professional partnerships

Pensions
Age discrimination and pensions

Consents, agreements, certificates and opinions
Some pension issues for charities

Private International Law
An introduction to Rome II

Taking the fun out of forum shopping: Owusu v Jackson and other stories

Professional Negligence and Indemnity
An update on accountant's negligence

Claims against valuers and surveyors
Professional Negligence/Indemnity Issues
Recent developments in the law of negligence relating to wills
Solicitor negligence claims
Valuers and surveyors' negligence

Real Estate
A property litigator’s guide to insolvency

Adverse possession
An ABC of dilapidation claims
An ABC of rent reviews
An update on insolvency law for property litigators
Annexation of the benefit of restrictive covenants:A question of identification
Case law kaleidoscope
CML Handbook - Friend and Foe?
Complex property documents
Easements and the conveyancing solicitor
Land Registration Act 2002 – an introduction to the new law
Problems and solutions in enforcing duties to repair in leases of commercial premises
Property in the downturn
Property law - renewals, repairs and recissions:
current aspects of business tenancies, dilapidations and collateral mortgates
Proprietary estoppel
Proprietary estoppel - a case study
Rectification and negligence in property work
Remedies in property disputes: what will I get?
Restrictive covenants - are they still the bind they used to be?
Restrictive covenants, easements and wayleaves
Security for overage
Solvent tenant default
Telecommunications equipment
Tenant default in a downturn
Town and village greens - the lot of the hapless landowner is not a happy one

Trusts and Estates
Common pitfalls in charity, trusts and estates litigation

Constructive trusts after Shalson v Russo
Evaluating the effectiveness of trust control structures
Mental capacity: wills, trusts & LPA's
Protectors
The essence of the modern trust
Directors' duties and derivative claims
Matthew Collings QC
• Law Commission Consultation Paper No. 142
• White Paper July 2002
• White Paper March 2005
• Hansard
• Explanatory Notes
• Higgs Report on Non-Executive Directors:January 2003
• Combined Code on Corporate Governance
• “must ….. in doing so have regard (amongst other matters) to …”
• Test for wrongful trading imported
• Cumulative
• Derivative claims : what's in a name?
• Widening scope for derivative claims, including negligence
• Cause of action irrespective of time of membership
• Prima facie test
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