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Duncan Fairgrieve
Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law & Director, Product Liability Forum
Biography Duncan Fairgrieve is Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Law and Director of the Product Liability Forum at the Institute. He is also Professor of Comparative Law at Université de Paris Dauphine in France. Duncan Fairgrieve is a leading comparative lawyer, with research interests spanning both comparative private and public law, with specific focus on three specific areas, comparative administrative law (with a particular interest in state liability), comparative law of…
Centre for Comparative Law+4Product liability, litigation funding and collective actions - redressing the balance?
Event Date: 26th September 2024
EVENTS Product liability, litigation funding and collective actions - redressing the balance? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) invites you to an international litigation evening seminar organised by its Product…
Collective Redress+2A CLF 21st Anniversary Roundtable: The Future of Private Litigation and Collective Redress
Event Date: 10th September 2024
EVENTS A CLF 21st Anniversary Roundtable: The Future of Private Litigation and Collective Redress Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The Competition Law Forum at BIICL invites you to join us on September 10th, 2024 for a Roundtable on the future of private litigation…
Collective Redress+3BIICL/IADC Meeting: Mass Torts and Emerging Risks - European and US Perspectives
Event Date: 7th February 2024
EVENTS BIICL/IADC Meeting: Mass Torts and Emerging Risks - European and US Perspectives Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised by the IADC and the BIICL Product Liability Forum Event Details This in-person event will be bring together European experts to take a look at developments in products…
Collective Redress+1Where now for Product Liability in the UK
Event Date: 14th November 2023
EVENTS Where now for Product Liability in the UK? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This event is organised in conjunction with the Law Commission of England of Wales, with the objective of examining the way forward for Product Liability in the UK. The Law Commission is currently…
Product Liability LawMedical Devices and Product Liability
Event Date: 6th July 2023
EVENTS Medical Devices and Product Liability Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Sponsored by Event Details The Medical Devices Regulations are a fundamental change to the regulation of higher risk medical devices in Europe, imposing far more prescriptive and onerous obligations on industry, regulators and notified…
Product Liability LawBIICL/IADC Meeting: Toxic Torts and Emerging Risks: European and US Perspectives
Event Date: 16th March 2023
SAVE THE DATE BIICL/IADC Meeting: Toxic Torts and Emerging Risks: European and US Perspectives Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised by the IADC and the BIICL Product Liability Forum Event Details Please mark your calendars and plan to join us in London for an IADC Regional Meeting…
Product Liability LawSurveying European Developments in Product Liability
Event Date: 22nd November 2022
EVENTS Surveying European Developments in Product Liability Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This in-person event will be bring together European experts to take a look at developments in products cases, including from the perspective of Collective Redress, with a group of distinguished…
Collective Redress+1Access to Justice in Products Cases
Event Date: 11th July 2022
EVENTS PLF Meeting: Access to Justice in Products Cases Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The topic of the round-table seminar was access to justice in products cases. Professor Rachael Mulheron (Queen Mary University of London) and Sarah Moore (Hausfeld) launched the discussion,…
Product Liability LawReforming the Product Liability Directive
Event Date: 10th March 2022
EVENTS PLF Meeting: Reforming the Product Liability Directive Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details At this event, Mark Beamish, Legal and Policy Officer in DG GROW at the Commission gave us an update on the reform of the Product Liability Directive. This was then followed by a focus…
Product Liability LawShort Course: Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property
Event Date: 4th March 2022
EVENTS Short Course: Pharmaceuticals and Intellectual Property Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This is a wide-ranging course offering diverse legal and interdisciplinary perspectives exploring the nexus between global public health and intellectual property. Although the business…
COVID-19+4HRDD Forum: Covid-19 and Value Chains: Three recent studies
Event Date: 9th September 2021
EVENTS HRDD Forum: Covid-19 and Value Chains: Three recent studies Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details At this thematic session, speakers will present their recent findings on the impact of Covid-19 in value chains, all the way from the agricultural fields, through the garment supply…
Business and Human Rights+4Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Compensation Schemes: Comparative Perspectives
Event Date: 6th July 2021
EVENTS Covid-19 Vaccine Injury Compensation Schemes: Comparative Perspectives Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Organised in partnership with: Event Details This event will examine critically the provision made for the small numbers of those who have suffered adverse reactions after administration of one of…
COVID-19+1PLF Event: Applying Product Liability rules to online platforms
Event Date: 11th May 2021
EVENTS PLF Event: Applying Product Liability rules to online platforms Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This seminar will examine this topical theme by reviewing the emerging US case law finding platforms / online marketplaces strictly liable in products cases (such as the Bolger…
Artificial Intelligence+2The Representative Actions Directive - a class action for Europe?
8th February 2021
After many years of discussion, the EU Representative Actions Directive was finally promulgated in early December last year. The European institutions have had a long-standing interest in consumer redress & group actions dating back to at least 1980s. The first concrete result of that was the Injunctions Directive passed in 1998, which though solely a regulatory measure, was nonetheless very significant development as the first EU legislation covering in a general way on civil procedural…
Collective Redress+3The Representative Actions Directive – a class action for Europe?
Event Date: 3rd February 2021
EVENTS The Representative Actions Directive - a class action for Europe? Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This webinar will examine the recently-adopted EU Representative Actions Directive and consider its impact on cross-border and domestic collective redress actions across Europe.…
Collective Redress+5Resource Pack: Force majeure and hardship in commercial contracts cross-border and comparative perspectives
Event Date: 31st December 2020
RESOURCE PACK Force Majeure and Hardship in Commercial Contracts: Cross-border and Comparative Perspectives Webinar Details On 8 April 2020 this webinar examined the legal consequences of a party's inability to perform a contract due to events outside their control, by comparing and contrasting a series of different juridictions including the US, France and the UK. An analysis was made of the issue of force majeure / and hardship…
Comparative Law+4Product Liability Forum | Compensation Schemes for COVID-19 vaccines: UK, comparative and international perspectives.
Event Date: 9th December 2020
EVENTS Product Liability Forum | Compensation Schemes for COVID-19 vaccines: UK, comparative and international perspectives. Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details This seminar will focus on the topic of compensation for potential adverse events caused by CV-19 vaccines. There have been…
Comparative Law+2Emergency Products and COVID-19
Duncan Fairgrieve | 29th July 2020
BIICL is undertaking a project to assess the impact of COVID-19 on emergency products in the medical sphere. This is a topical theme engaging important public health considerations, and involving the analysis of the law and regulation of products such as ventilators, medicines, medical devices, vaccines and related health products. A Product Liability Forum event was organised on this theme on 4 May 2020. Speakers included Pr. Geraint Howells, Marcus Pilgerstorfer QC, Dr Peter Feldschreiber,…
COVID-19+1PLF Webinar on Product Liability and Emergency Products
Event Date: 4th May 2020
EVENTS PLF Webinar on Product Liability and Emergency Products Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The objective of this webinar is to discuss the current regulatory and liability responses to the manufacture of products in the current crisis, including medicines, vaccines, PPE, and…
COVID-19+1Responding to COVID-19 product risks: should Government focus on the manufacturer or the patient?
24th April 2020
It was revealed recently that the Government has agreed to cover the legal liabilities of companies developing medical equipment at speed in the fight against COVID-19. In a letter in April 2020 to the Public Accounts Parliamentary Select Committee, Government Minister Michael Gove MP, revealed that the highly unusual step had been taken of indemnifying certain companies which are manufacturing medical equipment such as ventilators against legal risk in case the product causes injury…
COVID-19+1Force Majeure and Hardship in Commercial Contracts: Cross-border and Comparative Perspectives
Event Date: 8th April 2020
WEBINAR Force Majeure and Hardship in Commercial Contracts: Cross-border and Comparative Perspectives Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Event Details The objective of this webinar is to examine the legal consequences of a party's inability to perform a contract due to events outside their…
Comparative Law+4Bringing claims for mass data-breaches
Event Date: 3rd March 2020
EVENTS Bringing claims for mass data-breaches Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Sponsored by Event Details In light of increasingly high-profile cases concerning remedies for data breaches, this event will consider the different perspectives on accountability for mass data-breaches. Convened by the British…
Collective Redress+3BIICL / IADC Meeting: Toxic Torts & Emerging risks
Event Date: 20th January 2020
EVENTS BIICL/IADC Meeting: Toxic Torts & Emerging risks Event - Tags Share Links Event - Timings and Location Co-organised by the IADC and the BIICL Product Liability Forum Event Details This seminar will focus on current litigation & regulatory patterns in respect of toxic torts and related risks around…
Product Liability LawPLF Meeting: Is the Product Liability Directive Fit for Purpose: the Challenges of New Technology
Event Date: 30th January 2019
Time: 17:15-19:30 (Registration from 16:45) Venue: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5JP This event will bring together domestic & international speakers to consider the challenges posed by new technology to the PLD. This was a central issue in the European Commission's recent Fifth Report on the Directive, as raised by the preceding public consultation which illustrated that there were concerns about whether the Directive…
Comparative Law+1