Seminars

Civitas Law is hosting a free CPD seminar with keynote speakers from The John M Hayes Partnership for personal injury practitioners of all levels. The expert costs lawyers, as well as professionals from the Civitas Law personal injury team, will provide timely legal updates and implications of the latest cost law issues.

Civitas Law invites you to join the barristers for a free CPD seminar hosted by leading experts from its Employment Group, who will provide timely legal updates and applications for stress in the workplace. This seminar has been created for those representing clients in the private sector or working within an organisation in the private sector.

Civitas Law is hosting a Members' Forum event on behalf of Cardiff & District Law Society on Wednesday 25th January. This free CPD Forum for solicitors will have a PI focus with two sessions: 1) Manual Handling and, 2) Costs: Part 36.

Created exclusively for solicitors, this free CPD event opens up the debate on the future challenges and opportunities for legal services an practice management.

The largest legal conference and exhibition is coming to Cardiff on the 14-15th September. Held at the Holiday Inn, Cardiff City centre, the two-day event features a morning CPD session on Personal Injuries and Clinical Negligence, presented by expert barristers from Civitas Law.

Civitas Law is pleased to host an essential and timely seminar by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) on Marketing Law. The number of laws affecting marketing increases each year. A breach of the law can be costly; not just a potential fine but perhaps more damaging is the loss of brand equity. More than ever, it's important for marketers to know their responsibilities and know what you can and cannot do when running campaigns.

Civitas Law will host a full morning CPD seminar on behalf of the Confederation of South Wales Law Societies on Chancery and Tolata matters.

This year’s annual Legal Wales Conference promises to be the best yet with leading lights from the bar, bench and Welsh Government taking the stage at this one-day event.

Civitas Law is pleased to announce AvMA (Association Against Medical Accidents) will host its Catastrophic Birth & Child Injuries conference in Cardiff on 13th October 2011, in conjunction with chambers.

With nationally significant infrastructure, sustainable development and the Community Infrastructure Levy all playing a dominant role in the future implementation of the Localism Bill, Civitas Law has united a group of leading lights in the legal, development and planning sectors to discuss first-hand issues and remedies for professional in the private and public sectors.

CCR Conferences and Civitas Law present an evening with the experts, to provide an update on Stress and Distress issues for employers and employment lawyers. Leading professionals across the field of stress management, psychiatry and psychotherapy join Civitas Law barristers on Thursday 17th March 2011 to host a CPD accredited programme.

Civitas Law is joining forces with Advance CPD to host one of the first major standalone Personal Injury conference in Wales. With a strong line up of lawyers, costs experts and a consultant to the Jackson Report, including barristers from Civitas Law, this PI Conference will provide delegates with essential updates on costs, noise-induced hearing loss and industrial disease litigation, Civil Procedure reform, maximising damages, structuring PI awards, Workplace Regulations and negligence in the sports and leisure sectors.

Civitas Law is hosting a free CPD seminar In association with Young Planners Cymru and the RTPI. The seminar will cover the latest Land Registry Procedure Act and a Planning Law update for England and Wales. Members of Civitas Law Public, Regulatory & Planning Group will be joined by Keynote speaker Roisin Willmott, National Director, RTPI.

Mair Coombes Davies and Nick Thomas Symonds will present an engaging and timely update on the Conveyancing Act and the new Land Registry Portal. The three-hour CPD (Continued Professional Development) event will be hosted in a Road Show across Wales by the Law Society Wales.

Civitas Law will be attending RESI 2010 - the largest UK conference for the residential and house building sectors – as well as planning and regeneration. The event is hosted by leading trade publication Property Week at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport.

Gareth Jones will be leading a seminar update on inheritance tax planning at the annual Legal Wales Conference in North Wales this autumn. The prestigious national event will look at the future shape of the legal profession; the emerging Welsh jurisdiction; and, law reform in Wales.

Civitas Law is pleased to announce that this year; Young Planners’ Cymru will bring the annual RTPI National Young Planners’ Conference to Cardiff.

Civitas Law’s Business Development Manager, Emma Waddingham, has been invited to speak at the national AvMA (Association Against Medical Accidents) national conference in Manchester. Emma will explain why marketing, branding and communications are not simply essential for growth in the current market, it is paramount.

Jonathan Walters (Head of Civitas Law’s Employment Group) and Christopher Howells, will explain how legislation in the forthcoming Equality Act 2010 (due to come into force in October 2010) harmonises and in some cases extends existing discrimination law. The CPD seminar, hosted by the Law Society Wales, is intended to provide an overview of the Equality Act 2010 so that practitioners are not caught out by the new provisions. Particular focus will be placed on the new additions to discrimination law that employment lawyers will need to familiarise themselves with.

Gareth Jones (Head of Civitas Law’s Chancery Group), Nick Thomas-Symonds and Ryan Amesbury will lead a Chancery update road show across Wales at the end of October.