Annual Dinner 2018

Details

Date: Thursday 1st November, 2018

Time: 6.45pm for 7.30pm

Venue:
Cunard House (Ground Floor),
Cunard Building,
The Strand,
Liverpool, L3 1DS UK.

Event Code: S4159

Description

Calling all members of Liverpool Law Society…celebrate being part of a strong, proud and vibrant legal profession at the Society’s 191st Annual Dinner on 1st November!  The Liverpool City Region legal services sector is well-established and thriving. Lawyers deliver first class advice for clients around the country and internationally in a wide range of specialist areas of practice. This is something to be celebrated.

Attending the Dinner is a chance for members of Liverpool Law Society – the region’s legal community – to come together, to network and make new contacts, there are only a few places remaining.  All tables have sold out.

Ticket price includes a welcome drink on arrival followed by a three course meal, coffee & mints, speeches and music.  Carriages: 1.00am.

Please note, this event is for members of Liverpool Law Society and their guests.

There will be a voluntary collection for the President’s two nominated charities: Clatterbridge Cancer Charity and KIND.  All donations will be gratefully received by the charities which do such great work.

Dress code: Black Tie

The guest speakers at the 2018 Dinner are:

The Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Vos
Chancellor of the High Court

Sir Geoffrey was appointed Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales on 24 October 2016. He holds responsibility for the conduct of business in the Business and Property Courts. In February 2018 the Chancellor was present at the opening of the Business and Property Court in Liverpool at which he said “There are some very important advantages of bringing together the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court and the courts of the Chancery Division…No case will be too big to be tried in Liverpool….Liverpool has a proud legal history. At one time, its courts resolved some of the biggest and most significant maritime, commodities and trade disputes. We can once again provide state of the art business dispute resolution to Liverpool’s thriving commercial centre and its supporting legal community.”

and

Paul Smith, Executive Director of Liverpool Biennial

Paul Smith has extensive experience of both the arts and business in the UK and the US, having worked with organisations including Bank of America, Abbey National, Belfast Waterfront Hall, The Grand Opera House, and Prime Cut Productions. He has also worked in politics in Northern Ireland and for Arts & Business.

 

Speaker Biographies

Sir Geoffrey was appointed Chancellor of the High Court of England and Wales on 24 October 2016. He holds responsibility for the conduct of business in the Business and Property Courts. Prior to this role, he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal in 2013 and acted as President of the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary from June 2014 to June 2016. He was appointed a Justice of the High Court in October 2009. He sat as a judge internationally, in the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey between 2005 and 2009, and in the Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands between 2008 and 2009, having begun his judicial career as a deputy High Court Judge in 1999.

He was the Chairman of the Chancery Bar Association from 1999 to 2001 and of the Bar Council in 2007, having taken silk (QC) in 1993 after a career practising at the Chancery-Commercial bar, both domestically and internationally.

He is editor of the White Book.