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St Philips Chambers are delighted to invite you to attend a series of afternoon seminars focusing on Regulatory Law. This comprehensive programme provides an opportunity to catch up with the latest developments in the law and will provide practical advice in countering the common problems faced by lawyers and lay clients. Topics to be covered are: Environmental Law, Health and Safety, Licensing, Trading Standards and culminating in a half day seminar on Major Financial Investigations. All seminars are free and CPD accredited. Full details and how to book your place on one or more of the talks is enclosed within the attached invitation booklet. We very much hope that you will be able to lend your support to this exciting event.
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22nd - 26th November 2010
Monday 22nd November 20101.5 CPD Cost: Free
5:00pm start (4:45pm registration) - 6:30pmDrinks & canapés to follow
St Philips Chambers has a long history of being involved in environmental work, in particular with respect to criminalprosecutions. Our team of experienced lawyers has been involved in the whole range of environmental crime from flytipping to complex cases involving climate change, global warming and carbon emissions. We are regularly instructedby local authorities, the Environment Agency and many firms of solicitors.
Our work also includes a considerable amount of advisory work seeking to assist companies and individuals tocomply with what is an ever expanding area of complex regulation. We also provide assistance in civil litigation andpublic inquiries where environmental matters are at the heart of the case.
These lectures deal with topical issues for all environmental lawyers. All of us await the new civil penalty regime.What is “waste” is a topic that never goes away and has recently been the subject of a flurry of case law postR -v- OSS. Lastly issues of mens rea involving “knowledge” are always knotty problems that can cause difficulties forprosecutors and those defending.
Speakers:
Jennifer Josephs: Knowingly permitting or allowing - the unknowingly guilty.
Jonathan Salmon: When is an environmental crime not a crime? Answer - When you are offered a civil penalty. A guide to the new law.
Tim Green: The meaning of "controlled waste" - a case law update.
To book your place on this course please email us at [email protected] quoting REG/221110
Tuesday 23rd November 20101.5 CPD Cost: Free
5:00pm start (4:45pm registration) - 6:30pmDrinks & canapés to follow
With the recent increases in penalties arising out of fatalities and the Corporate Manslaughter Act, health and safety isa field that is both ever changing and to be ignored at your peril. Members of St Philips Chambers have been involvedin complex cases arising out of deaths in the work place. Our team includes several Queens Counsel who are expertsat dealing with the largest of cases, particularly those involving gross negligence manslaughter allegations. We alsoprovide training to Health and Safety Inspectors and solicitors. St Philips Chambers can offer a service from crisismanagement advice to coroner’s inquest via criminal prosecution and personal injury claim. In addition we are able toadvise on how to avoid falling foul of the legislation.
These lectures set out to explain the misunderstood and misused concepts of causation and foreseeability in healthand safety at work matters and the importance and significance of the Defence Case Statement.
Speakers:
Kevin Hegarty QC: Statutory Defences and the Defence Case Statement.
Andrew Lockhart QC: Definitions of "undertakings".
Barry Berlin: Do the concepts of causation and or reasonable forseeability have a place in general breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974?
To book your place on this course please email us at [email protected] quoting REG/231110
Wednesday 24th November 20101.5 CPD Cost: Free
5:00pm start (4:45pm registration) - 6:30pmDrinks & canapés to follow
St Philips Chambers licensing team has a number of seasoned practitioners who are able to provide advice andrepresentation in various tribunals in all aspects of licensing work.
Members of the group provide advice and advocacy services in respect of applications at all levels in licensingmatters concerning alcohol and entertainment, adult entertainment, gambling, vehicle and vehicle operators, taxi,shotgun and firearms, the security industry, and the utility and telecommunications industries.
The lectures below will illustrate the wide range of licensing work carried out in Chambers.
Speakers:
Glyn Samuel: Firearm appeals – “Without shooting blanks!”
Ben Williams: Taxi Licensing – “The knowledge”.
Andrew Evans: Alcohol and Entertainment Licensing - “Has this Government called last orders?”
To book your place on this course please email us at [email protected] quoting REG/241110
Thursday 25th November 20101.5 CPD Cost: Free
5:00pm start (4:45pm registration) - 6:30pmDrinks & canapés to follow
The team is particularly active in this area. In recent years, we have assisted with prosecuting authorities wanting touse the courts powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act and helping those who have found themselves on the end ofsuch claims. Our client base ranges from the market trader to the large multi-national company. We provide training totrading standards officers, local authorities and local solicitors. Our work includes unfair trading, consumer creditoffences, trade marks, counterfeit goods, food safety and advertising.
The lectures provide an opportunity to catch up with the latest developments in the law and will provide practicaladvice in countering the common defence raised in trade mark cases.
Speakers:
Jonathan Salmon: An update on the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.
"Two years on from the demise of the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 we provide a round up on the decisions here and inEurope on the regulations."
Ben Mills: “Well it looked alright to me!" - Challenging the defence under section 92 (5) Trade Marks Act 1994.
Richard Atkins: Case Law Update.
To book your place on this course please email us at [email protected] quoting REG/251110
Friday 26th November 2010 - AFTERNOON SEMINAR3 CPD Cost: Free
2:00pm start (1:45pm registration) - 5:15pmDrinks & canapés to follow
Since the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers, regulators around the world have been pursuing majorinvestigations into corporate and financial wrong doing with vigour. St Philips Chambers is at the forefront of thischallenge. Counsel are regularly instructed in cases brought by the Serious Fraud Office, the City of London Police,The Fraud Prosecution Service and other regulators of corporate and financial crime. A number of our team areapproved to prosecute cases on behalf of the Financial Services Authority [FSA].
Whether investigating or responding, barristers in the St Philips Regulatory team welcome the opportunity to beinvolved in a major financial investigation at an early stage. We specialise in providing advice to individuals andcorporate clients on compliance with the law of money laundering, bribery and corruption before an investigationbecomes necessary. As well as extensive experience of appearing in a variety of civil and criminal courts, our counselaccept instructions to appear in various regulatory tribunals that govern professional standards and compliance.
To book your place on this afternoon seminar please email us at [email protected] quoting REG/261110
James Burbidge QC: Fraud Trial Resolution.Kevin Hegarty QC: FSA Enforcement.Simon Davis: Dawn Raids.Tim Green: A Guide To The Bribery Act.David Alexander (Director Forensic Accountancy, Smith and Williamson): "Show me the money".
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To reserve your place/s please email our Events Team ([email protected]) or alternatively call Liz or Jeromeon 0121 246 7000 quoting the reference number for each day you wish to attend.
• 22nd November - Enviromental Law [REG/221110]• 23rd November - Health & Safety Law [SHE] [REG/231110]• 24th November - Licensing Law [REG/241110]• 25th November - Trading Standards [REG/251110]• 26th November - Major Financial Investigations [REG/261110]
How To Book:
How To Find Us:
St Philips Chambers, 55 Temple Row, Birmingham B2 5LS
By Train: Birmingham New Street Station is a five minute walk from ouroffice and Snow Hill station is just a two minute walk. If you are walking fromNew Street station, leave via The Palasades Shopping Centre by the mainexit above the station, walk down the ramp and follow Corporation Streetuntil you reach House of Fraser Department Store. Turn left into CherryStreet heading towards St Philip’s Cathedral and our office is situated 100yards on the left above The Bank of Scotland.By Car: Leave the M6 at junction 6 and follow the A38(M) signposted CityCentre. Join the flyover following the signs for The Jewellery Quarter andSt Philip’s Cathedral. Proceed straight across at the roundabout staying inthe left hand lane avoiding the exit for the underpass. Turn left into LiveryStreet where you will find Snowhill NCP multi-storey car park situated abovethe train station.Once parked: Cross Colmore Row heading towards St Philip’s Cathedral.Walk directly through the Cathedral grounds and our office is situated aboveThe Bank of Scotland building.
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