Description

In recent years, there has been a glut of litigation concerning the mis-selling of financial products to clients across the common law world. Whilst there have been various statutory attempts to provide improved litigation outcomes for clients (whether through redress schemes, ombudsman schemes or heightened statutory duties on the part of those selling or advising on financial products) the common law continues to perform a significant role in such litigation. Invariably, however, the common law rules tend to favour those financial institutions that have managed to protect themselves with a battery of protective clauses. The seminar will consider the recent developments and trends in the statutory and common law protections (or otherwise) afforded to financial services clients.

About The Speaker

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Somerville College, Oxford. After a short period at the English Bar, he held teaching posts at the University of Auckland and Jesus College, Cambridge. He has degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge (undergraduate), Harvard Law School (LLM) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL). His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies. His books include Ellinger, Lomnicka and Hare, Modern Banking Law (OUP, 5th ed, 2011), Watts, Campbell and Hare, Company Law in New Zealand(LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2015) and Cranston, Avgouleas, Van Zwieten, Hare and Van Sante, Principles of Banking Law (OUP, 3rd ed, 2018). He has also contributed chapters on syndicated lending and tiers of lenders to Paget’s Law of Banking (LexisNexis, 15th ed, 2018).

Who Should Attend

Banking lawyers, in-house bank counsel, policymakers