This page contains details of our latest news and events. This is our current calendar of events for 2022 (subject to change):
LIVERPOOL BUSINESS & PROPERTY COURT FORUM – Programme of events for 2025
The full calendar of events for 2025 is being planned and will be confirmed in the coming weeks.
2025 Calendar
March – 11th March 2025, 5.00pm, Exchange Chambers, Liverpool – Dr. John Wood (Lancaster University) & Dr. John Tribe (University of Liverpool) – “Countering liquidation through the lens of a restructuring culture.” Chaired by HHJ Cadwallader
April – Easter Break
May – EVENT MOVED DUE TO COURT OF APEAL HEARING – Now June 4th 2025.
Limitation: Fraud, Concealment and Mistake following Canada Square Operations Limited v Potter [2023] UKSC 41, with Steven Fennell, Chaired by HH Judge Cadwallader. Unfortunately, Steven has had a CoA hearing fall unexpectedly on the 22nd May. Therefore, the date of this talk has changed. It will now take place on Wednesday, 4th June 2025 at Exchange Chambers, One Derby Square, James Street, Liverpool L2 9XX from 16:30.
Apologies for any incovenience. Book here.
The talk will start at 17:00 with drinks to follow.
June – “Preparing witness Statements in the Business and Property Courts” – Panel Event – Liverpool Business and Property Court Forum (LBPCF) and Liverpool Law Society.
Date: 6th of June 2025, 1pm.
Vencue: Raquets Club, Liverpool.
Sign up details to follow shortly.
July – Liverpool Business and Property Court Forum (LBPCF) – Summer drinks with HHJ Cadwallader and Mr Justice Fancourt.
August – Summer Break – no event scheduled.
September – TBC – Chaired by HHJ Cadwallader
October – Date & Venue TBC – Panel Discussion chaired by HHJ Cadwallader
Chaired by HHJ Cadwallader
November – Date and Venue TBC – Liverpool Business and Property Court Form – Annual Winter Social Event, jointly hosted with His Honour Judge Cadwallader and Mr Justice Fancourt, Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster – Venue: TBC.
Next Event
Past Events
MARCH 2024
UK Supreme Court Justice Lord Burrows will deliver a keynote lecture as part of the anniversary celebrations of 130 years of Law at the University of Liverpool.
Title of Lecture: ‘Precedent and Overruling in the UK Supreme Court’
Speaker: Lord Burrows – Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Date: Monday 18th March 2024
Time: 5.30 – 6.30pm (followed by drinks a reception in the Victoria Gallery & Museum atrium)
Venue: Leggate Lecture Theatre, Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool
Booking: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-law-and-social-justice-university-of-liverpool/t-qjxopkp
Biography
Justice of the Supreme Court, The Right Hon Lord Burrows
Andrew Stephen Burrows became a Justice of the Supreme Court in June 2020.
He was educated at Prescot Grammar School, Knowsley, Merseyside and Brasenose College, Oxford. He has been a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers since 1989.
He was appointed QC (hon) in 2003 and is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple. He has been sitting as a part-time judge for over 20 years, first as a Recorder and then as a Deputy High Court Judge.
He was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales (1994-1999) and the President of the Society of Legal Scholars (2015-16). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007 and has written many books and articles especially on contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and statute law.
He was formerly Professor of the Law of England at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College.
