“In the Public Interest?”

The ‘Public Interest’ is a concept with which society appears enamoured.

What is the Public Interest? Surely not everything of interest to the public.

Recent controversy involving the royal family must surely have highlighted the distinction. But how about the ‘Twelve Just Men’ - should justice be dispensed because we know rather than can prove?

In the increasingly complex field of regulation the ‘Public Interest’ is becoming even more of a minefield. Information sharing, privilege, confidentiality and data protection legislation do not necessarily fit comfortably with the notion of “protecting the public at any cost”. 

Sessions Included

• Keynote
  The Hon Mr Justice Foskett
• That was the year … a legal update
  Tony Child – Browne Jacobson
• Layers of Regulation/Discipline
  Gareth Rees QC - Financial Reporting Council
  Adam Sampson - Legal Ombudsman
  Philip Yelland - Law Society of Scotland
• Privilege; Confidentiality & Information Sharing
  Hodge Malek QC - 39 Essex Street
  Colin Passmore- Simmons & Simmons
• Defamation
  Paul Baker - Simmons & Simmons
• Dishonesty
  Philip Newman - 42 Bedford Row
• The Public Interest
  Vanessa Davies - Bar Standards Board
  Mark Stobbs - Law Society of England & Wales
  Michael Williams
• The Tribunal at work (interactive role play)