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Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) Mr Parry addressed the potential challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities which might materialise as the United Kingdom navigates its way towards an exit from the European Union following the referendum on membership …

The Ministry of Justice today announced the appointment of 113 new Queen's Counsel and 5 Honorary Queen's Counsel, which included Professor Graham Virgo. Professor Virgo is a Fellow of Downing College, Professor of English Private Law, and a barrister and Academic Bencher of Lincoln's Inn, and has made a major contribution to English law in the gro…

The Law of Unjust Enrichment 9th edition Sweet & Maxwell has published the ninth edition of Goff & Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment edited by Professor Charles Mitchell (UCL), Professor Paul Mitchell (UCL) and Dr Stephen Watterson. Goff & Jones is the leading work on the law of unjust enrichment. The first edition appeared fifty years ago, in 19…

On Wednesday 16 November, The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma GBM QC SC delivered the 2016 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "What Have Ships Ever Done for You? The Impact of Maritime Law". Geoffrey Ma used his lecture to explore the enormous influence that shipping law has had on general commercial jurispr…

The eighth Obligations Conference was held at Downing College Cambridge from 19 to 22 July 2016. Organised jointly by the Cambridge Private Law Centre and Melbourne Law School, the Conference provided an opportunity for over 170 academics, judges, practitioners and graduate students from around the world to come together to discuss issues relating …

On Tuesday 24 November 2015, Lord (Tony) Grabiner QC delivered the 2015 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "Public Policy, Illegality and Contracts". Lord Grabiner focused on the illegality defence. The scope of this defence is now so uncertain that the Supreme Court has suggested that it needs the urgent attenti…

On 9 and 10 July the Cambridge Private Law Centre hosted a conference at Trinity College entitled Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies. During the conference 23 papers were presented on different contemporary controversies relating to the award of commercial remedies. The contributors were from Cambridge, Oxford and London. Generously suppo…

Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in a new tab) The Cambridge Freshfields Lecture is an annual address delivered by a guest of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, and the event is sponsored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. More information about this lecture, incl…

On Tuesday 5 November 2014 Mr Graham Vinter, General Counsel, BG Group plc (and ex-partner of Allen & Overy), delivered the 2014 Cambridge Private Law Centre Allen & Overy Annual Law Lecture entitled "The Trouble with Executives". Mr Vinter described his experiences as a senior executive at BG Group plc, and shared his observations of the disparity…

Cambridge University Press has published Unravelling Tort and Crime by Dr Matthew Dyson. Tort law and criminal law are closely bound together but their relationship rarely receives sustained and rigorous scrutiny. This is the first significant project in England and Wales to address that shortcoming. Building on growing interest amongst both academ…