The UK Commercial Property Litigation and Disputes Forum: 2nd Annual
The only conference to bring together solicitors, barrister surveyors and valuers together to discuss evolving topics impacting the commercial property landscape.
In-person | 27th February 2025 | Central London
Agenda
Networking & Registration
9.00am
Chair's Opening Remarks
9.30am
Anne Waltham, Consultant
Gowling WLG
Bryan Johnston, Partner
Dentons
Revisiting the Building Safety Act: Impacts Amends and Ramifications
9.40am
- Developments over the last 12 months
- Practical points for registering parties and registration gap issues
- Issues arising from retrofitting buildings
Greg Barden, Partner
Jones Day
Douglas Rhodes, Partner
Trowers & Hamlins
Exploring the Use of Arbitration In Property Disputes
10.25am
- Advantages of arbitration to resolve property disputes
- Pitfalls to avoid
- How arbitration compares to other methods of ADR
Anna Ralston-Crane, Partner
CMS
Professor Graham Chase, Senior Surveyor
Chase Sinclair Clark
Networking & Refreshment Break
11.10am
Understanding Effective Remedies for Telecoms Disputes
11.30am
- Where are we now with telecoms disputes
- Understanding how code rights work
- Actions of operators that result in litigation
Ed John, Partner
Keystone Law
Navigating Restrictive Covenants and Development Constraints
12.15pm
- How development restrictions can impact landowners
- Section 84
- Impacts of the Alexander Devine Supreme Court ruling
- Navigating how the courts work
Paul Greatholder, Partner
Russell Cooke
Rashpal Soomal, Partner
Eversheds Sutherland
Networking and Lunch Break
1.00pm
Insights into Business Rates and their Effects on Property Disputes
2.00pm
- Mitigation schemes
- Anti-avoidance inquest
- Mitigating business rates
Addressing Challenges Arising from Rights to Light Disputes
2.45pm
- Should reforms be introduced
- Is the methodology and landscape changing
- Is insurance being challenged more frequently
Gary Lawrenson, Partner
Osborne Clarke
Chhavie Kapoor, Partners
Mishcon de Reya
Networking and Refreshment Break
3.30pm
Examining the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954
3.50pm
- The Law Commission and its report
- What are the merits and otherwise of the Commission's Proposals
- How can the Act be modernised
Scott Goldstein, Partner
Payne Hicks Beach
Case Law Update: Exploring the Most Significant Cases Over the Last 12 MonthsÂ
4.35pm
- How has the property litigation landscape shifted in the last year
- What lessons can be taken from them
- What can be we expect from them going forward
Julia Tobbell, Partner
Forsters
Chairs Closing Remarks
5.00pm
Bryan Johnston, Partner
Dentons
Anne Waltham, Consultant
Gowling WLG
- Developments over the last 12 months
- Practical points for registering parties and registration gap issues
- Issues arising from retrofitting buildings
Douglas Rhodes - Partner - Trowers & Hamlins
- Advantages of arbitration to resolve property disputes
- Pitfalls to avoid
- How arbitration compares to other methods of ADR
Professor Graham Chase - Senior Surveyor - Chase Sinclair Clark
- Where are we now with telecoms disputes
- Understanding how code rights work
- Actions of operators that result in litigation
- How development restrictions can impact landowners
- Section 84
- Impacts of the Alexander Devine Supreme Court ruling
- Navigating how the courts work
Rashpal Soomal - Partner - Eversheds Sutherland
- Mitigation schemes
- Anti-avoidance inquest
- Mitigating business rates
- Should reforms be introduced
- Is the methodology and landscape changing
- Is insurance being challenged more frequently
Chhavie Kapoor - Partners - Mishcon de Reya
- The Law Commission and its report
- What are the merits and otherwise of the Commission's Proposals
- How can the Act be modernised
- How has the property litigation landscape shifted in the last year
- What lessons can be taken from them
- What can be we expect from them going forward
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