Topics List

The seminar topics listed below are listed in the order of commercial, company, insolvency, property, property negligence, financial services, traditional chancery and litigation procedure. Please scroll down the page.

Banking & Financial Services
The FSA's new 'Guidance on Regulated Activities connected with Mortgages'

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

Commercial and Contractual Disputes
Anti-suit injunctions

Challenging international arbitration awards
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
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
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
Money laundering
The concept of dishonesty in civil litigation

Insolvency and Corporate Recovery
Administrations

Maximising recovery in insolvency cases
Pensions update for the insolvency lawyer
The Enterprise Act
The Enterprise Act - a creditor's charter?

Partnership
Issues for professional partnerships

Pensions
Age discrimination and pensions

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

Private International Law
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
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
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 law - renewals, repairs and recissions:
current aspects of business tenancies, dilapidations and collateral mortgates

Proprietary estoppel
Rectification and negligence in property work
Registering village greens
Restrictive covenants - are they still the bind they used to be?
Restrictive covenants, easements and wayleaves
Security for overage

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

Constructive trusts after Shalson v Russo
Mental capacity: wills, trusts & LPA's
Protectors
Recent developments in international trust law