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Newsletter
Information for members
June 2001
Previous issue: April 2001
Next issue: July 2001
Programme
| Thursday, 14th June | "Fast track contracts, slow track disputes - What is the
answer?" Speaker: Professor John Uff QC Venue: Room 2, Faculty of Law, University of Birmingham |
6.00pm |
| Tuesday, 3rd July | Joint meeting with SCA. Chairman: Sir Philip
Otton "ARE WE ALL IN THE WRONG JOB? some reflections on construction law and dispute resolution" Speaker: Professor John Uff QC Venue: ICE, 1 Great George Street, London |
6.15pm |
| Tuesday, 17th July | "The Killing Fields of Construction - Corporate Manslaughter" Speaker: Bridget Bird Venue: Swallow Hotel, Derbyshire (off Junction 28 of M1) |
6.15pm |
| Tuesday, 11th September | "Workshop: Dispute Avoidance and Resolution" Leader: John Burgess Venue: Palmer Room, ICE, 1 Great George Street, London |
6.15pm |
| Tuesday, 25th September | "The Party Wall etc Act" Speaker: Rod Exton Venue: Swallow Hotel, Derbyshire (off Junction 28 of M1) |
6.15pm |
| Tuesday, 2nd October | "Part 36, Part 44 and Calderbank Proposals:
Have the regimens changed?" Speaker: John Tackaberry QC Venue: National Liberal Club |
6.15pm |
| Tuesday, 6th November | "A quantum meruit: What might it be?" Speaker: Colin Reece QC Venue: National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London |
6.15pm |
| Tuesday, 4th December | (subject to be confirmed) Speaker: Mr Justice Forbes Venue: National Liberal Club |
6.15pm |
The AGM and Annual Dinner 2001
The AGM and Dinner was held at Middle Temple on Wednesday 23rd May and proved to be a very popular event with almost 200 members attending the dinner.
It is not only the USA that can hold elections which have a close run result as the election for SCL Council members proved with a three way tie for fourth place (there being five available places and sixteen very able and well qualified contestants).
Our constitution only permitted two of the three tied candidates to be elected at the AGM. The three tied candidates were: Nicholas Gould, Corrina King, and David Risbridger. They agreed that selection of the two vacancies would be by "the drawing of lots". In the event Nicholas Gould was the unlucky candidate not selected by "lots".
The five successful candidates were Richard Bayfield, Corrina King, Barry Milton, Jim Pragnell and David Risbridger.
A copy of the Chairman's report is included with this newsletter. The minutes of the AGM can be found via the stop press on our website and copies of the annual accounts are available from the Administrative Office (both addresses at the foot of the page).
Council Meeting 4 June
At the Council meeting on 4 June the officers were all re-elected to their posts for the ensuing year. They are:
Chairman: Victoria Russell
Vice-Chairman: Richard Bayfield
Treasurer: Christopher Miers
Secretary: Helen Garthwaite
In addition, Philip Britton and Nicholas Gould were co-opted to Council.
CPD Points
CPD points are awarded by the Law Society for attending SCL talks. Please ensure that you keep details of those you attend and sign the register at the talk concerned.
The Millennium SCL Hudson Prize
The reportage of the meeting held at the National Liberal Club on 1st May is enclosed with this newsletter. The papers that were presented by the prize winners, Philip Eyre and Philip Britton, are currently in publication and will be sent to members free of charge.
SCL Web Site: http://www.scl.org.uk
For those new to the Society and/or to the WWW our web site is a constant source of new information. Items which have arrived too late to be published in a Newsletter, or details of meetings which have been arranged after the seasonal Diary has gone to print, will be posted on the website. It contains details of our future programme and contact details for university book grants.
New Members
Finally, we are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Society during April and May:
| David Simper, Saffron Walden | Damian Wilkinson, Leeds |
| Alastair Robertson, London | Cecily Davis, London |
| Peter Dix, South Shields | Antony Jones, Edinburgh |
| John Haywood, London | Andrew Farrer, London |
| William Baron, Surrey | Liam Holder, London |
| James Sloan, Malaysia | Sarah Cook, London |
| David Jones, London | James Craddock, West Sussex |
| Ian Doig, Sheffield | Robert Hewitt, London |
| David Atkinson, London | Sally Marsden, London |
| Paul Blackburn, Leeds | Alexander Standish, Bristol |
| Andrew Davies, London | Alan Williamson, London |
| John Fisher, London | Donald Pugh, London |
| Jonathan Collier, Manchester | Liam O'Hanlon, London |
| Andrew Ash, Bristol | Louise Garcia, Bristol |
| Mark Waters, Bristol | Susannah Wheeleker, Bristol |