LLG Weekend School 2019 The Courthouse Hotel, Legal Programme

Friday 29th March 2019 (5.25 CPD HOURS)

09.15 – 09.30 Conference Opening LLG President, Suki Binjal

09.30 – 10.00 Plenary 1: Committee on Standards in Public Life Jane Ramsey, Committee on Standards in Public Life

10.00 – 10.30 Plenary 2: A view from the Ministry, incorporating the latest Brexit viewpoint Senior Civil Servant

10.30 – 11.30 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11.30 – 12.00 Plenary 3: Robert Buckland QC MP, General, Attorney General’s Office

12.00 – 12.30 Plenary 4: Strategic Leadership and the Golden Triangle Tim Shields, CEO, London Borough of Hackney

12.30 – 13.30 LUNCH BREAK

13.30 – 14.30 Plenary 5: The Brexit Need to Know Doug Mullen, Anthony Collins LLP Judith Barnes, Bevan Brittan LLP Craig Elder, Browne Jacobson LLP Huw Rolant Jones, LLP Judith Hockin, VWV LLP Simon Goacher, Weightmans LLP Gavin Handford, London Borough of Croydon

14.30 – 15.15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

15.15 – 16.15 Plenary 6: The Future of Legal Technology and Building Relationships in a Digital World Sarah Lamont, Bevan Brittan LLP David Gilroy, Conscious Solutions Tanya Corsie, Iken Des Brady, Thomson Reuters

16.15 – 17.15 Plenary 7: Essential Case and Comment Fenella Morris QC, Kelly Stricklin-Coutinho & Katherine Apps,

LLG WEEKEND SCHOOL 2019 PROGRAMME 1 Saturday 30th March 2019 (5 CPD HOURS)

09.15 – 10.00 Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 1a: Organisational Change: Employment Implications Huw Rolant-Jones, Eversheds Sutherland LLP

Breakout Session 1b: Data Protection, and GDPR One Year On Penny Bygrave, VWV LLP

Breakout Session 1c: Apps, Maps and Automobiles -what’s hot and what’s not in Licensing World Stephen Turner, Hull City Council and LLG Deputy National Expert for Licencing

Breakout Session 1d: Procurement and Development Agreements post- Faraday Kathrine Eddon, Womble Bond Dickinson & David Elvin QC, Landmark Chambers

10.00 – 10.45 Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 2a: New Model Code of Conduct Simon Goacher, Weightmans & Paul Hoey, Hoey Ainscough Limited

Breakout Session 2b: Leases, income generation and the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016. Owen Wilcox, Thomson Reuters Practical Law Company

Breakout Session 2c: Saving retail: Roles and Responsibilities in regenerating retail facilities Tiffany Cloynes, Clare Hardy and Rebecca Gilbert, Geldards LLP

Breakout Session 2d: Learning the lessons of local authority trading companies Robert Patterson, Head of Internal Audit, Invicta Law

10.45 – 11.15 REFRESHMENT BREAK

11.15 – 11.45 LLG AGM

11.45 – 12.30 Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 3a: Crisis, what crisis! What do you really need to know about the NHS Olwen Dutton, Anthony Collins LLP

Breakout Session 3b: Agile in the Workplace: a methodology, a movement or a mindset?

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Breakout Session 3c: Community Care Update Andrew Sharland QC, 11KBW

Breakout Session 3d: Immigration in a Post Brexit Era – Managing your resources Louise Shaw,

12.30 – 13.15 LUNCH BREAK

13.15 – 14.00 Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 4a: How to deal with hopeless legacy contracts Virginia Cooper, Bevan Brittan and Louise Robling, Bevan Brittan

Breakout Session 4b: The future of the Mental Capacity Act & the Mental Health Act Alex Ruck Keene, 39 Essex Chambers

Breakout Session 4c: Keep your career burning – proactive ways to avoid career burnout and remain agile as a legal professional Hannah Cottam, Sellick Partnerships

Breakout Session 4d: What is local government for? Helen Randall, Lucy Doran and Paul McDermott, Trowers & Hamlins LLP

14.00 - 14.45 Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 5a: Procurement Challenges : A mini workshop Peter Ware and Louise Bennett, Browne Jacobson LLP

Breakout Session 5b: Employment law update Elaine Banton, 7 Bedford Row

Breakout Session 5c: Local plans and the 5-year Housing Land Supply James Findlay QC and Rob Williams, Cornerstone Barristers

Breakout Session 5d: Not Skint: Successful Community led high street regeneration in a coastal town Jonathan Goolden, Wilkin Chapman LLP

14.45 – 15.30 Breakout Sessions 6a – 6d

Breakout Session 6a: Public Sector Contracts, a legal update Stephen Pearson, Freeths LLP

Breakout Session 6b: CPO & Regeneration Andrew Piatt, Gatley PLC

Breakout Session 6c: Elections and the role of returning officers

LLG WEEKEND SCHOOL 2019 PROGRAMME 3 Tim Straker QC, 4-5 Gray’s Inn

15.30 CONFERENCE CLOSES

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