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 – 22nd May 2024, 4.30pm – Limitation: Fraud, Concealment and Mistake following Canada Square Operations Limited v Potter [2023] UKSC 41, with Steven Fennell, Chaired by HH Judge Cadwallader. This event will be taking place in Exchange Chambers Liverpool on Thursday, 22nd May 2025 from 16:30, with drinks to follow the talk. To book your ticket, please see here.
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, including a paper by Dr. John Tribe (University of Liverpool) – “Pride & Posterity: An “Afterlives” reappraisal of the Earl of Birkenhead’s role in the passage of the Law of Property Act 1925”
This paper critically examines FE Smith’s (the Earl of Birkenhead) contribution to the passage of the Law of Property Act 1925. It is argued that Birkenhead was actuated by a desire to remove uncertainty and to generally reform property law, but also by a desire to ensure that his legal legacy would be assured by his involvement with the enactment of the far reaching statute. This legislative activity would make up for Birkenhead’s otherwise relatively unremarkable career as Lord Chancellor and his suspicion of passing spectre like into legal obscurity.
Using Cave’s “Anticipated Afterlives” methodology this paper re-examines Birkenhead’s life and law reform activity. The paper argues that a “posterity motivation” analysis better informs our understanding of property law, private law reform, and FE Smith’s pre-occupation with posterity.
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.
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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.
