Past events
SCL Astra International Conference
Overseas
Chair: Rebecca Shorter (White & Case), Lucy Pearson (DLA Piper), Erwan Robert (Reed Smith), Sarah Williams (Keating Chambers) and Karim Mariey (White & Case)
Speakers: Sir Rupert Jackson (Keynote Speaker), Ravy Pich, Christophe Sergeant, Kathryn Porter, David Coyne, Vanessa Thieffry, Dr Way Way Moinet, Hervé Chambon, Sébastien Pepin, Karam Farah, Yutty Ramen, Veronique Buehrlen KC, Adam Zombory-Moldovan, Jason Fry KC, Elena Hatzigeorgiou, Patrick Noonan, Jean-Marc Coulon, Vincent Leloup & Sachin Trikha
The differences between NEC 3 and NEC 4 the UK - Peruvian experience
Online
The SCL Lunch in Bristol
South West
Speakers: Chrissie Wellington OBE, Four-time World Champion endurance athlete
Venue: Bristol Marriott Royal, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TA
Fire Safety in Buildings – Current Issues and Defects
Birmingham
Chair: Michael Bennett
Speakers: Steven Manchester, BRE
Venue: Shakespeare Martineau, 1 Colmore Row, Birmingham B4 6AA
The Building Safety Act 2022 – An in-depth look at the legal and practical impacts
London, Online
Chair: Richard Bayfield
Moderator: Amy Lacey
Speakers: Keynote Speaker: Dame Judith Hackitt. Panellists: Zoe de Courcy Arbiser; Michael Attwell; Professor Stephen Brookhouse; and Robert Evans
Venue: The Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA
Claims under the Defective Premises Act ("DPA") and changes to the DPA under the Building Safety Act
Surrey/Sussex
Chair: Andrew Keeley
Speakers: James Frampton, Keating Chambers
Venue: Charles Russell Speechlys, London Square, One, Cross Lanes, Guildford GU1 1UN
Tunnelling and Underground Works: Dealing with Uncertainty
Online
Chair: Andrea Stauber, King & Spalding International LLP
Speakers: Dr Emilio Linde-Arias, Managing Engineer, Exponent
Building a claim by extrapolation – the legal and evidential blocks (EVENT TO BE RESCHEDULED)
Manchester
Chair: Andrew Singer QC
Speakers: HHJ Stephen Davies
Venue: Friends Meeting House, Room G1, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS
The SCL Lunch in Leeds (CANCELLED)
Leeds
Speakers: Julian Norton, The star of the TV series the Yorkshire Vet
Venue: Leeds Marriott Hotel, 4 Trevelyan Square, Boar Lane, Leeds LS1 6ET
Martlet v Mulalley: Has the Court told us all we need to know about Cladding Fire Safety Claims post Grenfell?
London, Online
Chair: Sally Davies
Speakers: Jonathan Selby QC and Tom Coulson
Venue: National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Pl, Westminster, London SW1A 2HE
SCL Networking Evening
London
Venue: The Fable Bar, Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2FD
Construction projects and inflation
Online
Speakers: Ronan Champion
Pleading Ignorance: recent skirmishes on Statements of Case
Online
Chair: Andrew Evans
Speakers: Callum Monro Morrison, Keating Chambers
The potential role of freezing injunctions in adjudication enforcement proceedings
Kent, Online
Chair: Chris Kirby-Turner
Speakers: Laurence Page, 4 Pump Court
Venue: Thomson Snell & Passmore LLP & Online
Adjudication and payment security imposed by law - a brand new world
London, Online
Chair: Vincent Moran QC
Speakers: Paul Darling OBE QC; David Hopkins; David Bateson; Swee Im Tam
Venue: National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Pl, Westminster, London SW1A 2HE
Engineering a Better World
Oxford
Chair: Richard Bayfield
Speakers: Dame Judith Hackitt DBE FREng
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford OX1 1HP
Exclusion Clauses and Good Faith Duties
Manchester
Speakers: Lucy Garrett QC, Tom Owen and Charlie Thompson, Keating Chambers
Venue: Friends Meeting House, Room F11, 6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS
Managing inflation, resource shortages and price increases in standard form construction contracts
Speakers: Caroline Greenfield, Barrister, Atkin Chambers
Venue: Blake Morgan LLP, One Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS
The SCL Lunch in Manchester
Manchester
Speakers: Rt Hon Lord Andrew Adonis PC, formerly the Labour Secretary of State for Transport
Venue: Radisson Blu Edwardian, Free Trade Hall, Peter St, Manchester M2 5GP
An Introduction to Public Procurement
Online
Speakers: Paul Henty, Beale & Co
Data Centres: What Do you Need To Know ?
Ireland
Moderator: Dermot Flanagan S.C (Law Library, Dublin)
Speakers: Niav O'Higgins (Arthur Cox), Vincent Fogarty (Diales, London) & James Turner (O'Reilly Stewart, Belfast)
Venue: Arthur Cox Solicitors, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2, Ireland D02 T380
Liquidated damages, partial possession and sectional completion: is Eco-World the brave new world?
Birmingham
Chair: Michael O'Shea
Speakers: Mathias Cheung, Atkin Chambers
Venue: Mills and Reeve, 78-84 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2AB
Building a claim by extrapolation –the legal and evidential blocks
London, Online
Chair: Andrew Singer QC
Speakers: HHJ Stephen Davies
Venue: National Liberal Club and Online
The role of the standing conciliator
Online
Moderator: Denise Kennedy (Ronan Daly Jermyn, Galway)
Speakers: Ciaran Fahy (arbitrator, adjudicator and conciliator)
Dispute resolution clauses
Online
Chair: Jonathan Spencer
Speakers: Steven Walker QC