All lectures and seminars will take place at the International Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC), 70 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1EU, at 5pm unless otherwise stated. 1.5 CPD accreditation for each lecutre/seminar will be confirmed by the BSB.

If attending, please register with the COMBAR administrator Veronica Kendall at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Tuesday 2nd February
"Sharia and the use of money"
A lecture by Professor William Ballantyne
1.5 CPD accreditation confirmed
No handout available

Tuesday 9th March
"The Legal Nature of Credit Default Swaps"
A lecture by Marcus Smith
1.5 CPD accreditation confirmed
The content of this talk will be published in the May issue of the LMCLQ

Tuesday 27th April
“Time for change: third parties’ rights against insurers. Where did we get under the 1930 Act? Where will we go with the 2010 Act?”
Mark Cannon QC
1.5 CPD accreditation confirmed
Click here for lecture handout

Tuesday 11th May
"Contractual damages - new twists, old principles"
Andrew Baker QC and Henry Byam-Cook
1.5 CPD accreditation confirmed
Click here for lecture handout

Tuesday 22nd June
An update on developments in banking litigation and regulation
Sonia Tolaney
1.5 CPD accreditation confirmed

Tuesday 6th July
Conflicts of Law, Rome II
Barbara Dohmann QC and Brian Kennelly
1.5 CPD accreditation confirmed

No lectures in August or September

Tuesday 26th October
ProcureCo
The Bar Council has launched a model for new business structures for the Bar, dubbed ‘ProcureCo’. This follows historic rule changes made by the Bar’s independent regulatory arm, the Bar Standards Board (BSB), which gave barristers the ability to provide their services in different ways and to structure themselves in ways which had previously been prohibited.

In this context, the Bar Council has for some time been working on a business model for the Bar which gives sets of chambers increased flexibility in bidding for work in new and existing areas of practice and in areas where sets of chambers face increased competition.

Nicholas Green QC
1.5 CPD to be confirmed by the BSB

Tuesday 23rd November
Title and speaker tbc

Tuesday 7th December
Title and speaker tbc