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12 May 2021
Issue: 7932 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Arbitration , International justice
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CIArb Roebuck Lecture confirmed for June

A senior international judge will deliver this year’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) Roebuck Lecture as a free-to-attend, virtual event available to all.

The flagship lecture, which takes place every summer, is one of the highlights of the CIArb calendar. The 2021 lecture, confirmed for 5pm on 10 June, will consider ‘The impact of Singapore Mediation Convention, both on mediation and arbitration'. It will be delivered by Lady Justice Joyce Aluoch, a certified international mediator.

Lady Justice Aluoch is a former judge and first vice-president of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, The Netherlands. She was the second female Court of Appeal and High Court judge and magistrate in Kenya, and is an active member of CIArb's Kenya and London branches.

Register for the event at ciarb.org/events/roebuck-lecture-2021.

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The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has narrowly preserved a key weapon in its anti-corruption arsenal. In this week's NLJ, Jonathan Fisher KC of Red Lion Chambers examines Guralp Systems Ltd v SFO, in which the High Court ruled that a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) remained in force despite the company’s failure to disgorge £2m by the stated deadline
As the drip-feed of Epstein disclosures fuels ‘collateral damage’, the rush to cry misconduct in public office may be premature. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke of Hill Dickinson warns that the offence is no catch-all for political embarrassment. It demands a ‘grave departure’ from proper standards, an ‘abuse of the public’s trust’ and conduct ‘sufficiently serious to warrant criminal punishment’
Employment law is shifting at the margins. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ this week, Ian Smith of Norwich Law School examines a Court of Appeal ruling confirming that volunteers are not a special legal species and may qualify as ‘workers’
Refusing ADR is risky—but not always fatal. Writing in NLJ this week, Masood Ahmed and Sanjay Dave Singh of the University of Leicester analyse Assensus Ltd v Wirsol Energy Ltd: despite repeated invitations to mediate, the defendant stood firm, made a £100,000 Part 36 offer and was ultimately ‘wholly vindicated’ at trial
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