Professional Negligence Seminar 2025 – Manchester

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

Please note this event was originally scheduled to take place in our Manchester Chambers, but has since been moved to The Radisson Edwardian to accommodate additional delegates.

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.