Members of One Essex Court regularly provide talks, presentations and seminars on a wide range of topical issues affecting the many sectors in which we provide expertise.
Individual members are available to attend at solicitor/client premises, for either internal department-based presentations, or at larger client-oriented functions. Talks and seminars can be tailored to meet any specific needs and we are also able to hold presentations here at One Essex Court.
If you would like any further information in relation to One Essex Court seminars, then please contact Lorraine Lister, Chantal Perdreau or Mary Decolongon on + 44 (0)20 7583 2000 and at seminars@oeclaw.co.uk
The following seminars are currently available:
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Arbitration
- A Primer on Investor-State Arbitration
- Arbitrability and the Arbitration of Corporate and Insolvency Disputes
- Arbitration – Recent Cases on Arbitrator Challenges
- Arbitration – Recent Cases on Section 68 Challenges
- Arbitration Act 2025: Key Changes
- Arbitration Against Absent Respondents
- Challenges to Arbitral Awards
- Evidence in International Arbitration
- Freezing Injunctions in Support of Arbitration Proceedings
- Illegality and public policy in arbitration: taking stock after Nigeria v P&ID and Hulley Enterprises v Russian Federation
- Introduction to Arbitration (Seminar Aimed at Newly Qualified Solicitors)
- Multiple Arbitration Agreements: A Cautionary Case Study
- Only Use in Emergency: Practice and Pitfalls of Emergency Arbitrators
- Recalcitrant Parties in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- Reforming the Arbitration Act 1996
- Rules on Act of State/Non-Justiciability in International Arbitration
- Six Years after Halliburton – Where Are We with Arbitrator Disclosures and Conflicts of Interest?
- The Proper Law of the Arbitration Agreement and Anti-Suit Injunctions: Recent Developments
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Banking and Financial Services
- A Question of Integrity: FCA Principle 1
- Banking Law: Key Recent Themes and Cases
- Capacity to Contract: The Problem in Banking Law That Doesn’t Go Away
- Deutsche Bank v Vik: How Do You Get from Judgment to Money?
- Frasers v Morgan Stanley and the US$1bn Margin Call
- Key Banking Law Themes and Decisions 2024–2025
- Lessons from the motor finance litigation (Hopcraft v Close Brothers)
- Quincecare Is Dead; Long Live Quincecare?
- Quincecare since Phillipp v Barclays – and beyond
- Recent Banking Cases – Capacity, Bribery and Jurisdiction
- Recent Developments in Banking Law
- Technical aspects of banking and financial services disputes – challenging margin calls
- The implications of the Supreme Court decision in the motor finance appeals (Hopcraft/Johnson/Wrench)
- The Quincecare Duty on Banks Not to Make a Payment on a Customer Instruction
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Civil Fraud and Investigations
- Bribery, breach of fiduciary duty, and allied claims
- Economic Torts
- Evidential Issues in Complex Fraud Cases
- Fiduciary Duties and Bribery following the Supreme Court decision in the Hopcraft Motor Finance case [2025] UKSC 33
- HP, Autonomy and Mike Lynch: The Abridged Version of This Year’s Landmark Fraud Judgment
- I Lied, but You Were Not Deceived: Knowledge and Awareness in Fraud and Misrepresentation
- Litigating Section 423 Claims: Practical Considerations and Lessons from the Invest Bank Litigation
- Making and Defending Misrepresentation Claims: Practical Considerations
- Postponement of the limitation period in cases of fraud, concealment and mistake
- Rescission for Misrepresentation
- Setting Aside Judgments after Takhar: What Next?
- Settling Claims in Fraud, Dishonesty and Conspiracy: Principles and Practicalities
- Uncovering and Preserving Evidence in Fraud Claims: Search Orders, Norwich Pharmacal Orders and the Ancillary Disclosure Jurisdiction
- Unknown fraudsters and (crypto-) assets: how old procedures are being developed to address modern problems
- Unravelling Bribery: Vicarage Morality and Commercial Life
- What are the keys to success in a misrepresentation claim in 2026?
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Company Law and Insolvency
- Directors’ Disqualification
- Directors’ Duties
- Directors’ Duties and Disqualification
- Directors’ Duties: What has changed in light of recent Supreme Court authorities?
- Fiduciary Duties in the Commercial Sphere: Lessons from Hopcraft v Close Brothers Limited [2025] UKSC 33
- Foreign Judgments in 2026: Recognition, Enforcement and Insolvency
- Horses for Courses – Different Approaches to Shareholder Disputes
- Litigating Section 423 Claims: Practical Considerations and Lessons from the Invest Bank Litigation
- Minority Shareholder Remedies - Just and Equitable Winding Up and Derivative Actions
- Recent Supreme Court decisions on fiduciary duties and equitable remedies
- Section 423 of the Insolvency Act: Practical lessons from the Invest Bank litigation
- Shareholder Actions and Pitfalls in Corporate Litigation
- The Duties of Directors in the Light of the Supreme Court’s Decision in BTI v Sequana
- The use and abuse of section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 in commercial and civil fraud litigation
- Unfair Prejudice and Derivative Actions
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Competition Law
- Competition Law
- Merger Control/New Rules on Screening Incoming Foreign Direct Investment
- Pleading and Proving Pass-On
- The New Collective Proceedings Regime for Competition Law Claims Following Brexit
- Umbrella Proceedings Orders in the CAT
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Contract Law and Unjust Enrichment
- 150 Years of the Indian Contract Act
- Abatement: When Can a Defendant Deploy the Self-Help Remedy of Abatement to Reduce the Contract Price and Thereby Sidestep a “No Set-Off” Clause?
- An Introduction to the Law of Unjust Enrichment
- Construction and Enforceability of Settlement Agreements
- Construction and Interpretation of Contracts
- Contract Termination Clauses
- Contractual Construction and Rectification
- Contractual Damages and Exemption Clauses
- Contractual Termination and Liquidated Damages: Recent Cases
- COVID-19: Frustration Primer
- Damages without Loss? The Market Measure and the Compensatory Principle
- Entire Agreement Clauses and Contractual Estoppel
- Exclusion and limitation clauses in commercial contracts: issues of interpretation, operation and fairness
- Express Termination Clauses in Contract
- Force Majeure in Relation to Contracts
- Loss of a chance
- Material Adverse Effect Clauses: Difficult to Invoke, but Not Impossible
- Negotiating Damages
- Penalty Clauses
- Recent Developments in Unjust Enrichment and Restitution
- Termination of Contracts
- The Braganza Term – Strategies and Tactics
- The Rescission of Contracts: Everything You Know is Wrong
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Energy and Natural Resources
- Energy decommissioning: old assets, new challenges – on a global scale
- Introduction to Emissions (Carbon) Trading for Disputes Lawyers
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Injunctions and Interim Remedies
- Anti-Suit Injunctions in Support of Foreign-Seated Arbitration (Following the Arbitration Act 2025)
- Anti-Suit Injunctions: Practical Considerations
- Freezing Orders and Chabra Orders
- Freezing Orders and Service Out in the Light of Convoy Collateral
- Freezing Relief in Support of Foreign Proceedings
- Global Freezing Is Not a Myth: Recent Trends in Worldwide Freezing Orders
- Pitfalls when applying for freezing injunctions
- Pre-Action and Specific Disclosure and Norwich Pharmacal Orders
- Search Orders and Contempt – Lessons from the Recent Ocado v McKeeve Action
- The Duty of Full and Frank Disclosure in Ex Parte Applications
- Worldwide Freezing Injunctions
- Worldwide Freezing Orders (and the Impact of the Decision in FSDEA v Dos Santos)
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Other
- Auditors’ Negligence
- Breach of Confidence Claims
- Breach of Warranty Claims
- Case Law Review of 2025/2026
- Claims of Interest in Litigation and Arbitration
- Climate Change Litigation – What Are the Private Law Risks?
- Commercial Agency Regulations
- Effective ADR and Mediation
- Effective Non-Disclosure Agreements
- ESG Litigation
- Experiments in Patent Litigation
- Is Your Claim Really Too Old? Extended Limitation Periods under Sections 14A, 32
- Joint Venture Disputes with Reference to Garnet v VRFB [2022] EWHC 481 (Ch)
- Liability without responsibility? Liability of UK-based companies for actions of their foreign subsidiaries, joint ventures and supply chain partners
- Libel and Slander for Corporations
- Litigating in Cyprus in 2023: The New Civil Procedure Rules and Commercial Court
- Non-disclosure agreements after MeToo
- Post-Acquisition Disputes
- Pre-Judgment Interest after Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v HMRC [2018] UKSC 39 and Carrasco v Johnson [2018] EWCA Civ 87
- Share purchase disputes: issues the textbooks miss
- Software-as-a-Service: Good or Service?
- The Effect of COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine on International Construction Projects
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Practical Guides to Litigation
- A Barrister’s Perspective on Spreadsheets in Litigation: Digging Below the Surface, Practical Tips, and Explaining Spreadsheets to a Judge
- Acting for, and against, the very poor
- Analysing and Building a Case (Seminar Aimed at Newly Qualified Solicitors)
- CPR 36 Offers
- Discounted Cash Flow Modelling for Lawyers
- Evidence at Trial – Advanced Issues for Litigators
- Evidential Issues in Complex Fraud Cases
- Expert Evidence in Civil Proceedings
- Key Changes to the 11th Edition of the Commercial Court Guide (2022)
- Litigating against litigants in person
- Litigating in Practice: Top Tips for Getting a Case from Commencement to Trial
- Making and Resisting Costs Applications
- Making and Resisting Summary Judgment Applications
- Multi-party Litigation
- Practicalities of Written and/or Oral Advocacy
- Preparation for Trial (Seminar Aimed at Newly Qualified Solicitors)
- Strike-Out and Summary Judgment
- The new Commercial Court pilot on Access to Public Domain Documents (Practice Direction 51ZH)
- The Use and Abuse of Experts
- Witness Evidence: A Practical Overview
- Witness Statements
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Private International Law
- Claims for Contribution under Rome II
- Claims for Declaratory Relief in the Context of Jurisdictional Disputes
- Foreign Judgments in 2026: Recognition, Enforcement and Insolvency
- Forum Non Conveniens – Back in Fashion?
- Forum Non Conveniens – Recent Developments
- Is Forum Conveniens Now the Main Issue in Jurisdictional Disputes and How Should It Be Approached in Practice?
- Jurisdiction – Recent Developments
- Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Clauses
- Jurisdiction and International Litigation (Seminar Aimed at Newly Qualified Solicitors)
- Jurisdictional Challenges in Shareholder Disputes
- Proving Foreign Law
- Service Out of the Jurisdiction: Recent Developments and Pitfalls to Avoid
- Service Out, Jurisdictional Gateways, and Forum Non Conveniens
- When and How to Serve Out of the Jurisdiction
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Privilege and Civil Procedure
- An Overview of the Law of Privilege
- Apocalypse now: Inadvertent disclosure of privileged material in large disclosure exercises
- Bearing Witness: Navigating Practice Direction 57AC
- CPR in Flux: Procedural Law Review
- Deutsche Bank v Vik: How Do You Get from Judgment to Money?
- Disclosure Obligations: Recent Developments
- Exaggerated Damages Claims as an Abuse of Process: Wither Arrow Nominees Inc v Blackledge and Summers v Fairclough Homes Ltd?
- Iniquity and Legal Professional Privilege after Al Sadeq v Dechert LLP [2024] EWCA Civ 28
- Issue estoppel after the Supreme Court judgment in SKAT v MCML
- Legal professional privilege: “privilege hunting”, iniquity and other recent developments
- Legal Professional Privilege: Recent Developments
- Letters of Request/Examinations
- One Bite at the Cherry? Issue Estoppel, Abuse of Process and the Finality of Litigation
- PD57AD – Knotty Issues
- Penalties and Perjury: To What Extent Can a Dishonest but Successful Party Recover Costs?
- Pre-Action and Non-Party Disclosure in Commercial Cases
- Pre-Action Disclosure
- Procedural Issues in Taking Tax Appeals
- Protective Claim Forms, Limitation and Striking Out for Abuse of Process
- Sanctions after Denton and Mitchell
- The Enforcement of Judgments
- The law relating to abuse of process: where have we got to and where do we go next?
- Waiver of Privilege
- Without Prejudice Privilege
- Witness Statements