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Summer Conference 2025 - Save the date
Friday 20/06/2025


Title	Summer Conference 2025 - Save the date
Date	Friday 20/06/2025 -
Venue	Venue to be confirmed
Details	Save the date! oSummer Conference: 20 June 2025 in London oAnnual Conference: 19-21 November 2025 in Leeds The Education & Seminars Committee is keen to hear from anyone who would be interested in speaking at either the Summer or Annual Conference. We are looking for enthusiastic speakers who are committed to preparing high-standard talks and to giving us their own views on their selected subject matter, as well as (ideally) preparing a detailed (but not necessarily long) full-text paper to accompany the talk. If there are any topics / cases of which you have had particular experience in the last twelve months, we would particularly welcome your input (although we acknowledge the confines of confidentiality in many such circumstances). There are lots of opportunities for lawyers of all levels and the Committee is willing to consider alternative formats, such as: o30 minute slots (as an alternative to the usual 45 minute slots) osessions with more than one speaker (for example, a less experienced speaker could join forces with a more experienced speaker) opanel sessions If you would like to put your name forward, please contact the organisers below with details of your proposed topic by Friday 7 March: oSummer Conference: Dan Saunders at Herbert Smith Freehills (dan.saunders@hsf.com) oAnnual Conference: Simon Evans & Victoria Lee at CMS (Simon.Evans@cms-cmno.com; Victoria.Lee@cms-cmno.com) If you wish to have an informal chat before putting your name forward, we would be very happy to speak to you. You may wish to consider speaking on one of the topics below. Alternatively, you are very welcome to put forward another topic. 1.Mansion House / mandating investment 2.Superfunds and Capital Backed Journey Plans 3.Derisking 4.Statutory and contract/deed interpretation (key caselaw) 5.Scheme funding - practical experience of the new funding code 6.Section 37 (anticipating a Verity Trustees judgment) 7.GDPR developments since 2018 (noting the Farley v Paymaster case) 8.TPR investigations 9.Divorce and Pension Sharing Orders 10.Adviser contracts - issues and disputes 11.DEI 12.Rectifying historic pensions tax issues 13.ESG 14.Legal risks when using AI 15.(L&P committee) - what's on L&P agenda 16.Professional negligence - for example have we any answers to David Grant's 2015 "elephants in the room" talk 17.Litigation issues that are relevant to non-contentious advice, for example cost capping 18.How to help judges help our clients 19.Perspective case notes - which ones have held up over time 20.Extrinsic contracts - where they can help or hinder (noting the Olivetti case) 21.Pensions Act 1995 - 30 years on 22.Can trustees be commercial? When can/should they take a view or assess materiality Is there a difference for questions of fact or law, or during wind up.
Organiser	Dan Saunders
Organiser Email	dan.saunders@hsf.com

Annual Conference 2025 - Save the date
Wednesday 19/11/2025 to Friday 21/11/2025


Title	Annual Conference 2025 - Save the date
Date	Wednesday 19/11/2025 Friday 21/11/2025 -
Venue	Venue to be confirmed
Details	Save the date! oSummer Conference: 20 June 2025 in London oAnnual Conference: 19-21 November 2025 in Leeds The Education & Seminars Committee is keen to hear from anyone who would be interested in speaking at either the Summer or Annual Conference. We are looking for enthusiastic speakers who are committed to preparing high-standard talks and to giving us their own views on their selected subject matter, as well as (ideally) preparing a detailed (but not necessarily long) full-text paper to accompany the talk. If there are any topics / cases of which you have had particular experience in the last twelve months, we would particularly welcome your input (although we acknowledge the confines of confidentiality in many such circumstances). There are lots of opportunities for lawyers of all levels and the Committee is willing to consider alternative formats, such as: o30 minute slots (as an alternative to the usual 45 minute slots) osessions with more than one speaker (for example, a less experienced speaker could join forces with a more experienced speaker) opanel sessions If you would like to put your name forward, please contact the organisers below with details of your proposed topic by Friday 7 March: oSummer Conference: Dan Saunders at Herbert Smith Freehills (dan.saunders@hsf.com) oAnnual Conference: Simon Evans & Victoria Lee at CMS (Simon.Evans@cms-cmno.com; Victoria.Lee@cms-cmno.com) If you wish to have an informal chat before putting your name forward, we would be very happy to speak to you. You may wish to consider speaking on one of the topics below. Alternatively, you are very welcome to put forward another topic. 1.Mansion House / mandating investment 2.Superfunds and Capital Backed Journey Plans 3.Derisking 4.Statutory and contract/deed interpretation (key caselaw) 5.Scheme funding - practical experience of the new funding code 6.Section 37 (anticipating a Verity Trustees judgment) 7.GDPR developments since 2018 (noting the Farley v Paymaster case) 8.TPR investigations 9.Divorce and Pension Sharing Orders 10.Adviser contracts - issues and disputes 11.DEI 12.Rectifying historic pensions tax issues 13.ESG 14.Legal risks when using AI 15.(L&P committee) - what's on L&P agenda 16.Professional negligence - for example have we any answers to David Grant's 2015 "elephants in the room" talk 17.Litigation issues that are relevant to non-contentious advice, for example cost capping 18.How to help judges help our clients 19.Perspective case notes - which ones have held up over time 20.Extrinsic contracts - where they can help or hinder (noting the Olivetti case) 21.Pensions Act 1995 - 30 years on 22.Can trustees be commercial? When can/should they take a view or assess materiality Is there a difference for questions of fact or law, or during wind up.
Organiser	Simon Evans
Organiser Email	simon.evans@cms-cmno.com

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