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Conference Programme

  • Day 1 - Wednesday 23 July (8.00am - 5.00pm)
  • Day 2 - Thursday 24 July (9.00am - 5.35pm)
  • Day 3 - Friday 25 July (9.00am - 6.00pm)

Day 1 – Wednesday 23 July

8.30amRegistration and Coffee
 
9.00am
Keynote Address
  • Lord Hoffmann, 'The Case for Having a Duty of Care'

10.00amParallel Session 1
 

Panel A

  • Jane Wright, 'Distributive Justice: a Dangerous Idea in the Common Law?'
  • William Lucy, 'What is Private about Private Law?'

Panel B

  • Lusina Ho, 'Good Faith and Fiduciary Duty'
  • Richard Nolan, 'Some Equitable Constraints on Private Power'

Panel C

  • Magdalena Sengayen, 'Tort liability in post-socialist states – the case study of Central Europe – evolving aims, framework, and context of tort'
  • Neil Foster, 'Private Law and Public Goals: The Continuing Importance of the Action for Breach of Statutory Duty'
 
11.10amCoffee
 
11.40amParallel Session 2
 

Panel A

  • Charles Rickett, 'The Goals of Unjust Enrichment Law'
  • Graham Virgo, 'Demolishing the Pyramid – the Presence of Basis and Risk-Taking in the Law of Unjust Enrichment'

Panel B

  • Prue Vines, 'Apologies as corrective justice in tort law: reparation and compensation as (partial) redemption'
  • Normann Witzleb and Robyn Carroll, 'Vindication as an Aim of the Law of Remedies'

Panel C

  • Ben McFarlane, 'Equity, Obligations and Third Parties'
  • John Mee, 'The Goals of Equity: Estoppel, Implied Trusts and Personal Relationships'
 
12.50pmLunch
 
02.00pmParallel Session 3
 

Panel A

  • Andrew Robertson, 'The Limits of Policy'
  • Roderick Bagshaw, 'Tort Law, Concepts and What Really Matters'

Panel B

  • Alexander Loke Fay Hoong, 'Limits to the pursuit of self-interest in contract'
  • Eddy Gisonda, 'The relevance of political philosophy to understanding contract law'

Panel C

  • Arlen Duke, 'The Knowing Receipt "Knowledge" Requirement and Restitution's "Good Faith" Change Of Position Defence: Two Sides of the Same Coin?'
  • Matthew Harding, 'Desert in Private Law: the Case of Allowances'
 
03.10pmCoffee
 
03.50pmParallel Session 4
 

Panel A

  • DM Fox, 'The Limits of Asset Partitioning in Pension Trusts'
  • Pamela Hanrahan, 'Fiduciary duty and the market: private law and public good'

Panel B

  • Donal Nolan, 'Causation and the Goals of Tort Law'
  • Robert Stevens, 'The Conflict of Rights'

Panel C

  • Duncan Sheehan, 'Reconsidering the Defence of Illegality in Unjust Enrichment'
  • Jeannie Marie Paterson, 'Unconscionability and Consumer Protection'
 
05.00pmEnd of Day 1


Note: The speakers, titles of papers and order of speakers are subject to change.

 

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