French Commerical Code & British Commerical Law within a Global Market-Place 'Celebrating the Bicentenary of the French Commercial Code'

Wednesday 6 June 2007 09:30 to 17:30

Location

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Lecture Theatre and Council Chamber, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5JP
 

Participants

Keynote Speakers Include:

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Lord Chief Justice
Monsieur Daniel Tricot, Président de la chambre commerciale de la Cour de cassation

Chairs:

  • M. Jean-Bertrand Drummen, Président du Tribunal de Commerce de Nanterre
  • The Hon Lady Dorrian, Judge of the Supreme Court of Scotland
  • Pierre Bézard, Président Honoraire de la Chambre Commerciale de la Cour de cassation
  • Monsieur Daniel Tricot, Président de la Chambre Commerciale de la Cour de cassation
  • Sir Michael Tugendhat

Speakers:

  • Gordon Bell, Pinsent Masons
  • Bâtonnier Michel Benichou, Président de la Commission Internationale du Conseil National et Chef de la Délégation Française au CCBE
  • Professor Pascale Bloch, University of Paris XIII
  • Professor Michael Bridge, Dean and Professor of Commercial Law, University College London
  • Michael Butcher, General Counsel, Veolia UK
  • Professeur Yves Chaput, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Scientific Director of the CREDA
  • Chris Fitton, Pinsent Masons
  • Arman Galledari, Jones Day
  • Steven Gee QC, Stone Chambers
  • Marie-Helene Heurtas, Vice-President Competition and Compliance Vivendi SA
  • Stephen Hockman QC, Former President of the Bar
  • Didier Kling, Président d'honneur de la Compagnie nationale des Commissaires aux Comptes
  • Edward Nalbantian, Jones Day
  • Bruno Quint, Granrut
  • Professor Arnaud Raynouard, Toulouse University
  • Rupert Reece, Gide Loyrette Nouel
  • Michael Smith, Chief Attorney, ExxonMobil
  • Martin Smith, Simmons & Simmons
  • Michael Swainston QC, Brick Court Chambers
  • Alain Tchernonog, General Secretary, Veolia Environnement SA
  • Mr Michael Whincup, Barrister, Former Director of Continuing Legal Education, University of Keele
  • Simon Whittaker, Fellow and Tutor in Law, St. John's College, Professor of European and Comparative Law, Oxford University
  • Mrs Fiona Woolf, President of the Law Society
  • Carol Xueref, Legal Director ESSILOR International, Former President of the Cercle Montesquieu

This international conference, jointly organized with the Franco-British Law Society, will be a prestigious event, bringing together high-caliber speakers form Britain and France including, Monsieur Daniel Tricot Président de la Chambre Commerciale de la Cour de cassation and Lord Phillips LCJ. Various topics of commercial law will be covered, including commercial contracts and the attractivity of Civil Law systems.

This event is been hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in conjunction with the Franco- British Lawyers Society Limited.

Topics Include:

  • Where should commercial law be going?
  • Stock markets and the Law
  • Commercial contracts
  • Is the common law dead and is the civil tradition forging ahead?
  • Regulating the legal profession
  • Dispute resolution / Fora of dispute will the courts always trump the arbitrators?
    Mediation and other processes? Jurisdiction shopping.
  • Competition Issues

This Event is Kindly Sponsored by:


4.5 CPD hours may be claimed by both solicitors and barristers through attendance at this event

There will be a dinner that will be held at the Reform Club. Cost to attend the event dinner: £65 per person. The Reform Club in Pall Mall is one of the finest Victorian buildings in the country, a palatial masterpiece by Sir Charles Barry that has remained largely unchanged since it was completed in 1841.

To book for this event and dinner click here or email eventsregistration@biicl.org

Click here to view the programme.

Further details will be published shortly. In the interim, should you have any queries please contact Faria Medjouba: f.medjouba@biicl.org for further details.