Seminars

Professional Negligence Seminar 2025 – Liverpool

Date

05/06/2025

Cost

No charge

CPD

2.0

Venue

Exchange Chambers, One Derby Square, Liverpool, L2 9XX

We are pleased to invite you to our Professional Negligence Seminar 2025. This event will be held in-person only, in LiverpoolLeeds and Manchester on Thursday 5th, Tuesday 10th, and Wednesday 11th of June respectively.

Registration is from 09:00.

​The seminar will consist of four 30-minute talks from members of the Exchange Chambers Professional Negligence Team. Breakfast is included!

 

09:00 Registration & Welcome

09:15 Richard Tetlow ​talks On the Fringes – Some examples of the margins of imposition of a duty and other means of establishing liability.

09:45 James Malam on Professional Negligence and Groupthink: Can a negligent defendant escape liability because a reasonable body of professionals would have acted in a way which would have caused loss in any event?

10:15 Breakfast

10:45 Carly Sandbach on Professional Negligence Claims and the ‘Collateral Attack’ challenge – what remains? A consideration of the scope of the collateral attack challenge as a defence to professional negligence claims the Court of Appeal decisions in following Allsop v Banner Jones [2021] EWCA Civ 7, Princewaterhousecoopers LLP v BTI 2014 LLC [2021] EWCA Civ 9 and Tinkler v Ferguson [2021] EWCA Civ 8.

11:15 Jodie Wildridge on When Worlds Collide… A consideration of how the law deals with conflicts (or potential conflicts) of interest between clients and their advisors, with a particular focus on Conditional Fee Agreements and the decision of Fancourt J in Forster v Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP [2023] EWHC 1150 (Ch). 

11:45 Questions & Close

 

We look forward to seeing you at one of our events.

If you require any further information, please contact our Seminars Team.