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Events

Housing Law - Spring Seminar Series

April 5th and 6th 2022 at 1pm

SEMINARS – TRAINING – MOCK TRIAL

 

Civitas Law’s specialist housing practitioners will be bringing a range of seminars and a mock trial providing legal updates, and practical hints and tips to practitioners as part of our Spring Seminar Series.

Members of the team will be providing training on 5 April covering:

Civitas Law North Wales Seminar, 27th November 2018

Civitas Law is an award winning, leading specialist civil and public law barristers’ chambers serving clients across Wales and England. We believe clients are best served by a set of highly specialist lawyers offering excellence and innovation in advisory work, drafting, mediation and advocacy. Our North Wales Seminar will involve briefings on current issues impacting on North Wales.

Headline presentations will be:

Civitas Law - Summer Conference, 29th June, Morgan's Hotel, Swansea

Civitas Law invites you to the 2018 Summer Conference.

 

Civitas Law is an award winning, leading specialist civil and public law barristers’ chambers serving clients across Wales and England. We believe clients are best served by a set of highly specialist lawyers offering excellence and innovation in advisory work, drafting, mediation and advocacy.

 

The event is being held at Morgan’s Hotel, Swansea 9.30am on Friday 29thJune.

 

Chris Howells hosts succesful Local Authority seminar

Christopher Howells held an employment law seminar for a group of local authority lawyers from across South, Mid and West Wales on 20 July 2017.

 

If you re interested in attending one of Civitas Law's seminars, or if you would like our members to host n in-house training session, don't hesitte to contact Karen.

Civitas Law host mock trial training event for Community Housing Cymru

On 29th September Chambers was delighted to co-host a Mock Trial event in collaboration with Hugh James solicitors and Community Housing Cymru at the Future Inn, Cardiff.  

Nicholas David Jones, Richard Cole and Owain Rhys James played out a full trial as Judge and Counsel with our pupils, Tara Ahari and Alys Williams, playing the witnesses.  Senior Associate, Leon Lloyd also faced cross examination.  Over 50 delegates from Housing Associations from across Wales attended the event, which was aimed at familiarising them with the civil trial process.

Wales Business Insider Property roundtable: 'We need a plan'

Civitas Law hosted an exclusive roundtable of leading planning, development, funding and legal experts to debate the latest thinking in localism, planning, reform, development plans and dispute resolution. The debate was published in the December issue of the Wales Business Insider magazine - Wales' only independent magazine for the profesisonal and commercial sectors.

The panel of experts discussing key issues affecting planning and development growth in Wales were:

A day for professional Deputies

Emma Waddingham, Business Development Manager at Civitas Law, outlines the concerns, opportunities, changing regulations and welfare benefit updates for professional Deputies - responsible for protected parties - in the December 2011 issue of the APIL PI Focus.

The Association for Personal Injury Lawyers publishes a monthly magazine for PI and Clinical Negligence professionals across England and Wales.

For further details, please visit the APIL website www.apil.org.uk

 

RTPI Cymru magazine: Legal Developments in terms of Court of Appeal decisions

Graham Walters, Head of the Public, Planning & Regulatory Group in Civitas Law, provided an update for planning and development professionals across Wales in the winter edition of the Royal Town Planning Institute's (RTPI) magazine.

For further information, please visit www.rtpi.org.uk/rtpi_cymru

Great Expectations: When should a court say a PI claimant doesn't have a disability?

Theo Huckle QC outlines the impact of assessing future loss of earnings, when a court should say a PI claimant doesn't have a disability and the need for expert evidence to ensure judges make the correct reductions on Ogden computations in the latest edition of the New Law Journal (7 March 2012).

Kate Parker assesses Professor Fenn's Review into the Low Value RTA Process

Kate Parker, barrister at Civitas Law evaluates Professors Fenn's Review 'Evaluating the Low Value RTA Process', assessing the affect of the RTA Portal on mean general damages and mean settlement through a comparison of pre and post-Portal data.

Kate outlines the significance of the report and its findings on the Low Value RTA Process, its significance for lawyers and the need for more investigation.

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