Annual Colloquium 2024

Annual Colloquium 11 October 2024, Cardiff

Dear Members and Friends,

We are delighted to announce that the Society will be holding its Annual Colloquium in person in Cardiff, Wales, in October 2024.

The colloquium will begin on Thursday 10 October with a Live Jazz Reception organised together with the Wales France Business Forum at the new Terra Mare restaurant, followed by a day of conference on Friday 11 October 2024 at the University of Cardiff. The day will conclude with a Gala Dinner at the Castle. 

The main theme of the conference is Sustainability. We will be discussing four aspects of sustainability - environmental, social, corporate governance and dispute resolution - across four panels in the morning and the afternoon. The conference will be held at the University of Cardiff.

For more information, please visit the Events page on our website containing the draft programme of the Annual Colloquium: ajfb-fbls.org

We hope many of you will be able to join us.

For Registration

Please use the google form - Colloquium Attendance Survey Form - to indicate your attendance to (1) the Reception on Thursday 10 October, (2) the Conference on Friday 11 October and (3) the Gala Dinner on Friday 11 October.

The costs for each of these events are as follows:

• Members' price:

         Conference and reception: £50

         Conference and gala dinner: £90

         Conference, reception and gala dinner: £140  

• Non members' price:

         Conference and reception: £70

         Conference and gala dinner: £120

         Conference, reception and gala dinner: £190 

AJFB-FBLS: Annual Colloquium 2024

docs.google.com

For accommodation

there is a discount rate at the Clayton Hotel Cardiff with the promotional code: CAPI101024  and Radisson Blu hotel.

Programme of the AJFB/FBLS Conference

Friday 11 October 202

9h00 – 17h00     AJFB/FBLS Event at the University of Cardiff

Dr Catherine Pédamon & Céline Jones, Capital Law

Tea/coffee

Opening address

9h30 – 10h00                                

First Minister, Eluned Morgan

Panel 1 – Environmental Sustainability – Climate Change Risk, Pollution and Renewable Energies

10h – 11h15

Chair: Lord Hodge, UK Supreme Court

Airbus, Sustainability Team

Keith Davidson, Partner, Irwin Mitchell

Dr Lois Lane, Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers

11h15 – 11h45     Tea and coffees

Panel 2 – Social Sustainability: Challenges of Doing Business in Ways that Benefit Society and Protect People

11h45 – 13h00

Chair: Lady Justice Nicola Davies, Court of Appeal

Michelle Leavesley, Group Head of Sustainability, Admiral Group Plc

Marie Brousseau-Navarro, Deputy Commissioner and Director for Health, Future Generations

Commissioner for Wales

Séverine Saintier, Professor of Law, Cardiff University

Huw Thomas, Leader of Cardiff Council

13h00 – 14h00       Buffet lunch sponsored by Capital Law

Panel 3 – Corporate Governance and Impact on Sustainability: Governance Framework, Stakeholder Engagement and Triple Bottom Line

14h00 – 15h15

Chair: Lord Justice Lewis, Court of Appeal

Irene-Marie Esser, Professor of Corporate Law and Corporate Governance, Dean of the Graduate School, College of Social Sciences, School of Law, University of Glasgow

Roz Sullivan, Partner and Head of Public Law and Regulatory, Capital Law

Kathryn Davies, Legal, Bouygues UK

Sarah Whitehead, Companies House

15h15 – 15h45                                  Short break

Panel 4 – Dispute Resolution Mechanisms and Sustainability

15h45 – 17h

Chair: Lord Ericht, Court of Session, Scotland

Jean-François Le Gal, Pinsent Masons

Rupert Reece, Gide Loyrette Nouel

ClientEarth, Katie Scarlett Wetherall

Fabienne Schaller, Chambre Commerciale internationale, Cour d’appel de Paris, TBC

Closing remarks by Simon Horsington

17h-17h15