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LASPO 10 years on

Together with the Law Society Gazette we collaborated on the subject of ‘LASPO 10 years on’ roundtable discussion, on the 19th of April at Chancery Lane in London. Read the full editorial here.

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The roundtable discussions had a number of specialists, including claimant and defence specialists solicitors.

The agenda:

  • Assessing the impact on access to justice
  • Restitution, compensation and the discount rate
  • Costs and case management – fixed recoverable costs, QOCS and expert evidence
  • Changes to the CPR
  • The ‘business’ of personal injury practices – the position of claimant and defendant firms
  • Future reforms


The panel includes:
Anne Kavanagh, Irwin Mitchell
Richard Geraghty, Irwin Mitchell
David Haynes, ARAG
Emily Formby KC, vice president of PIBA
Suzanne Trask, Bolt Burdon Kemp
Nicola Critchley, FOIL
Richard Miller, The Law Society Gazette
John Hyde, The Law Society Gazette
Paul Rumley, SCIL
Vinod Kathuria, TULA Medical Experts
Beth Heath Lanyon, Bowdler
Sharon Allison, Ashtons/SCIL
Ben Collins, Old Square Chambers

 
 

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View our last Round table
(May 2023)

 

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Webinar: Landlords
 

For the latest in ARAG’s Talk with the Experts series of webinars, we assembled a team of specialists to talk about the impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on the private rental sector.

 
Webinar - Fitness to practise
 

Chris Clacy was joined by Claire Petts, Partner at Clyde & Co for our 'Talk to the Experts' webinar. During the webinar Claire discusses the legal concerns around fitness to practise in the current climate.

 
Contract and Debt Recovery
 
 

Julie Hunter, Senior Associate Solicitor at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, discusses what care providers can do to protect their business from the risk of bad debts.

 
Roundtable: What next for Clinical Negligence?
 
 

A recording of the full webinar in which Mike Knight hosted a roundtable on the issues currently facing the medical negligence sector.

 
Protecting businesses in the care sector
 
 

A recording of the full webinar covering the challenges and legal exposures facing the care industry, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

 
Risk Management
 
 

Laura Hannah, Partner at Stephensons Solicitors LLP discusses the approach to risk management in the industry and how to align that with the current approach from the Care Quality Commission.

 
Health and Safety
 
 

Alison Marriott, Senior Associate Solicitor at Stephensons Solicitors LLP talks about the health and safety implications for care providers.

 
Employment and Key Changes
 
 

Adam Pennington, Senior Associate Solicitor at Stephensons Solicitors LLP joins us again to talk about the employment law implications for care providing businesses.

Exposures facing the haulage sector - post Covid-19

View our webinar on the challenges and legal exposures facing the road haulage industry, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown. Introduced by Chris Clacy, Broker Business Manager at ARAG and presented by Paul Loughlin, Sean Joyce and Adam Pennington of Stephensons Solicitors LLP.

 
Full webinar – 16th July 2020
 

Watch the video series:

 
Highlights
 
 

A short video with the highlights from our webinar covering the challenges and legal exposures facing the road haulage industry, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

 
Regulatory exposures facing the road haulage industry
 
 

Paul Loughlin, Senior Associate Solicitor at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, talks about some of the sector specific regulatory developments and the challenges that have emerged for hauliers, as a result of Covid-19.

 
Covid-19 and the Implications
for Employers
 
 

Adam Pennington, Senior Associate Solicitor at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, talks about the wider implications for employers, and how they impact all businesses with workers and employees in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown.

 
The Impact of Covid-19
on Criminal Investigations & Proceedings
 
 

Sean Joyce, Partner and Head of Regulatory and Criminal Justice at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, talks about some of the sector specific developments and challenges that have emerged for hauliers, in the wake of Covid-19.

 

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