With guests Rebecca Wilkie, Chief Executive of Advocate, and Faye Pauffley, Engagement Manager of Advocate, we'll cover how volunteering can help barristers to move practice areas by gaining experience in new fields, or to get back on their feet after time away from the Bar.

Formed 29 years ago, Advocate is the Bar's national pro bono charity that connects people who are unable to obtain legal aid and can't afford to pay with barristers who provide their expertise for free.

The Inner Temple Movers & Returners is dedicated to discussing the ins-and-outs of navigating career moves at the Bar and the challenges faced by those returning to work after a hiatus 📦 🚚

On our inaugural episode we'll be discussing Advocate.

Speakers 🎤
Nema Milaninia – partner at King & Spalding LLP
Burkhard Schafer – Professor of Computational Legal Theory at Edinburgh Law School
Edmund Vickers KC – (Red Lion Chambers)

Event Details:
🗓️ Monday, 24 November, 6-7pm
🛜 Online only
🎟️ Book: nrtm.pl/43p6Sh3

Speakers 🎤
Nema Milaninia – partner at King & Spalding LLP
Burkhard Schafer – Professor of Computational Legal Theory at Edinburgh Law School
Edmund Vickers KC – (Red Lion Chambers)

Event Details
🏛️ The Inner Temple (and Online)
🎤 6pm: Lecture by Professor Ewan McKendrick KC (Hon), Chaired by Gaynor Wood (Chair, BACFI)
🥂 7pm - 8pm: Reception with canapes
⚖️ Open to: Members of the Inns

Thank you for joining us this evening 🎙️

The type of money that’s coming in with litigation funders - who is the ultimate beneficiary? Who are the investors? Working to make this more transparent. Looking at anti-money laundering rules.

Claim sizes have also impacted companies in terms of how much money they need to hold in their balance sheets. Now, when you’re confronted with a multi-billion dollar claim, it’s impossible to have the capital for this. Lastly, the UK has become an outlier in Europe in terms of mass litigation.

i.e., “copy cat” cases. He works in competition and litigation funding. Liability insurance costs have sky-rocketed. He has been trying to draw attention to the fact that this complicates things for smaller firms, they have difficulty getting liability insurance and have had to sell to larger firms

Our next speaker is Fredrik Erixon, a Swedish economist. Has done a recent paper on collective litigation. The last 4 years, there has been an increase of 400% in this type of litigation. The opt-out system is one of the e explanations for this explosion in growth. Many cases are American imports –

Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in the last few years there have been 50 cases coming through this system. In the Post Office case, they managed to do a deal for £57 million. The funder took all but £11 million of that money. But, without their help, they wouldn’t have been able to get justice.

Suddenly we move from this world where cases were relatively small to one where funders won’t touch a case that’s under £30 million. It’s not worth their time. Day is involved in emissions cases.

Our first speaker is Martyn Day. We are well behind the US in terms of class action suits being brought forward. About 7 years ago, funders were beginning to come into the system. The issue is that for a funding case to work, you have to have a claim that’s around £100 million.