Seminar | Commercial Litigation

Litigation Forum: Quarterly Update - Developments in Litigation
Wednesday 19th November 2003
at 222 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1X 8XF

SJ Berwin is holding a Breakfast Seminar on developments in litigation. 

Speakers
Craig Pollack
Partner
Litigation Department

Alex Leitch
Partner
Litigation Department

Background

This seminar will look at:

• The evolving judicial approach to a refusal to mediate - will there really be a punishment?
• Recent cases affecting how business people approach dispute resolution and litigation.

Timetable
08.30 Registration/Refreshments
08.45 Forum Opens
09.30 Q&A Session
09.45 Forum Ends/Refreshments

Programme

Mediation update

• When must you accept a judge's or a litigant's offer to mediate?
• Whether other forms of negotiation may satisfy the court's expectation that parties use "ADR".
• What excuses the courts will accept for not mediating.

Litigation update

• Why it is no longer "winner takes all" on costs.
• When courts will overrule "without prejudice" communications.
• Whether illegally obtained evidence can be used in court.

RSVP
For further information on this seminar please contact Helen MacRae on +44 (0)20 7533 2903 or by email helen.macrae@sjberwin.com