How is the Product Safety Regime Working in Practice?

Thursday 12 October 2006 17:00 to 19:00

Location

Participants

Chair:

• Justin Fenwick QC, 4 New Square

Speakers:

• Erik Hansson, SANCO, European Commission: "The View from the Commission"
• Andrew Austin and John Blain, Freshfields: "Challenges in coordinating a pan-European recall."
• Mark Kendall, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP: "Product Recall and Guarantee insurance coverage: benefits, pitfalls, and implications of the General Product Safety Regulations."
• Jonathan Hemus, Porter Novelli will present the angle of "Crisis Communications" - how to advise organisations on communicating with stakeholders (the media, employees, customers etc) during product recalls.

This event will be followed by a champagne reception to celebrate the launch of Global Legal Group's latest edition of the Comparative Law Guide on Product Liability, and a dinner at the Athenaeum Club, which will be a good occasion to chat informally with our guest speakers, as well as meet Stephen Doggett, researcher responsible for Product Liability and Insurance at Legal 500. The cost to attend the dinner is £75.

This is a closed event of the Institute's Product Liability Forum. Please contact Faria Medjouba for more information on the Forum's activities.

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