LLG Weekend School 2019 The Courthouse Hotel, London 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, Solicitor 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, Eversheds Sutherland 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, 39 Essex Chambers
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?
LLG WEEKEND SCHOOL 2019 PROGRAMME 2 Tanya Corsie, Iken
Breakout Session 3c: Community Care Update Andrew Sharland QC, 11KBW
Breakout Session 3d: Immigration in a Post Brexit Era – Managing your resources Louise Shaw, Pinsent Masons
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 Cornerstone Barristers 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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