Thursday 4 December 2008 at 1800

Oxford Law Practitioner Lectures being held at Norton Rose LLP
Drafting, Defending and Deploying Agreements on Jurisdiction and Choice of Law

Speaker: Edwin Peel and Professor Adrian Briggs

Venue: Norton Rose

Oxford Law Practitioner Lectures at Norton Rose LLP 3 More London Riverside, London SE1 2AQ Thursday 4 December 2008, 6:00-8:00 pm followed by drinks 8:00-8.30 pm Building on the success of our previous Oxford Law Lectures, we now invite you to attend two lectures on a central area of private international law. Please note that these are open to all who are interested and are not restricted to Oxford alumni. The two lectures will be given on Thursday 4 December 2008 and will examine the following topic: ‘Drafting, Defending and Deploying Agreements on Jurisdiction and Choice of Law’ The lectures will be given by Professor Adrian Briggs and Edwin Peel. Both are members of the Oxford Law Faculty and are well-known to practitioners. Adrian Briggs is Professor of Private International Law, a Fellow of St Edmund Hall and a barrister specialising in the private international law of jurisdiction at Blackstone Chambers. Ed Peel is a Fellow of Keble College and a Consultant to Clifford Chance LLP. Attendance by barristers or solicitors will be worth 2 CPD points. Over the course of the two hours, the aim is to describe how to, and how not to, draft contractual terms dealing with jurisdiction and choice of law. The opportunity to choose the law to govern a contract claim is well established, if not always well done; but the opportunity to choose the law which will govern in the litigation of non-contractual claims, with which the common law was starting to come to terms, has been given a real shot in the arm by the Rome II Regulation. It is one thing to draft; another to enforce what you have drafted. Of course, if the parties and the court do what they have agreed and been told to do, all is well. But when there is disobedience, the question of whether and how one may use measures of secondary reinforcement, perhaps claiming damages, is of central importance. The stumbling blocks in the path of the claim, and the computation of damages, will be talked through. There will be more questions than answers, but the speakers will aim to do what they can to tilt the balance in favour of the latter. The total cost of the two lectures (including handouts) is £100. All profits will be used for the work of the Oxford University Law Faculty. The drinks afterwards are being generously provided by Norton Rose LLP. To book and pay, please use the on-line system. As numbers are limited, places will be allocated according to the date of reply. If you know of others, whether Oxford alumni or not, who may be interested in these lectures, please forward this email to them. Professor Andrew Burrows FBA, QC (Hon)

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