The COMBAR Africa Committee will be hosting a breakfast meeting in Cape Town during the African Arbitration Association Conference.  Any COMBAR Members attending the AfAA are invited to attend.

The meeting will discuss “How to Africanise African Arbitration: What needs to be done”.

The meeting will be held at the Regency Hyatt Cape Town and will start at 0730 and is expected to finish at 0830 to allow guests to move to the conference.

To register your interest in attending the meeting please email admin@combar.com

See more information on the work of the COMBAR Africa Committee here.

The Annual Lecture will be delivered by

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Popplewell 

on Tuesday 7th November at 5.30pm, in Gray’s Inn Hall

on the subject

“Judging truth from memory”

looking at the implications which the current state of scientific research on memory has for evidence and fact finding in commercial litigation

Wine and refreshments will be served after the lecture – All  welcome

The lecture is now oversubscribed to be added to the reserve list, please email admin@combar.com

Please note the date change from the 4th October due to the Rail and Tube strikes.

Mr Justice Foxton and Mr Justice Nicklin will give a talk followed by questions.

The talk will take place in rooms at the Ashworth Centre Lincoln’s Inn from 5.45pm – 6.45pm.

It is open to COMBAR Members only. Pupils are welcome.

The event was hybrid and the recording may now be viewed in the Members’ area of the website.

Future commercial barristers are invited to Join Legal Cheek on the afternoon of Tuesday 25th July for a series of virtual short talks, delivered in partnership with COMBAR.

Junior COMBAR invites COMBAR members of ten years call or under to a summer canapé and drinks reception hosted by Blackstone Chambers  (EC4Y 9BW) from 6pm to 10pm on 18^th July 2023.

Members are encouraged to attend and socialise with their peers across Junior COMBAR, pupils are also welcome. A range of canapés  and beverages will be available, with drinks served on the terrace (weather permitting).

The event is now at capacity and no further registrations are being taken.

A panel discussion entitled “Ethical questions for the Commercial Bar” will be chaired by Stephen Kenny KC on the 20th July 2023.

The seminar will take place in rooms at the Ashworth Centre at Lincoln’s Inn from 5:45pm to 6.45pm.

The event will be hybrid and recorded with the recording uploaded to the documents library after the event.

It is open to COMBAR members only and pupils are welcome. Registration is now closed for this event.  Those joining online do not need to register.

Registration is now open for the 5th COMBAR India Round Table which will take place in Mumbai, starting with a reception on the evening of Friday 15^th September 2023 and finishing with a dinner on Saturday 16th September 2023.

The conference and events will be held at The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, an iconic venue located in the heart of Mumbai.

We are honoured and delighted that our Judicial Guests will include The Right Hon Lord Leggatt, Justice of the UK Supreme Court.

We are also pleased to announce our sole sponsor for the event, FTI Consulting Ltd.

Further details on the event may be found here. To register for the event please request a registration form.

In a change to our published schedule we are pleased to welcome COMBAR Honorary Overseas Member, Jack Baughman of JFB Legal who will conduct a talk on

“The Art of Persuasion”

Jack was a key panellist at the recent COMBAR North American and Offshore meeting in Boston.  He will be reviving his presentation on “The Art of Persuasion”  (with a few bonus topics) calling on his experience as a trial lawyer in the USA.

The talk will take place in rooms at the Ashworth Centre, Lincoln’s Inn from 5.45pm to 6.45pm.  It is open to Combar Members only. Pupils are welcome.

The event will be hybrid and recorded.  Please register your in-person by emailing admin@combar.com There is no need to register for online attendance.

Following on from the recommendation contained in the Black Inclusion Group’s report “The Specialist Commercial Bar & Black Inclusion – First Steps”, a Zoom-only workshop has been arranged by COMBAR, ChBA and TecBar with the editors of The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners to consider issues of representation and inclusion and to encourage directory submissions from the most diverse pool of applicants.

The panellists will discuss applications to the directories and answer questions on the submission process.

Whilst questions can of course be asked on the night, we would also encourage members to submit any questions they may have in advance, as part of the registration form, and which will then be asked anonymously.

A zoom link will be circulated closer to the event. Registration is now closed.