Real Estate and Construction Seminar: 30th June 2009

Due to last week's seminar being cancelled in response to the tube strikes, we are pleased to invite you to the rescheduled Real Estate and Construction seminar which will now take place on the 30th June at Mitre House.

Details of the speakers and outline topics are as follows:

Susan Hankey, Partner, Competition and Procurement

Grounds for complaint: current issues in procurement

• Are you being treated fairly? What the contracting authority gets wrong: undisclosed criteria; jumbled processes; inadequate debriefing; award of services not advertised
• Do you know your procurement rights? The new rules on remedies and "contractual ineffectiveness"
• Can you rely on framework agreements anymore? Implications of recent NI judgments
• Auroux v Roanne: new OGC guidance on implications for developers

Jan Burgess, Partner, Head of HSE

Health and Safety update

• The New H and S Offences Act - in force Jan 2009 - Far more stringent penalties for all H and S offences - imprisonment of individuals a possibility in almost all cases now
• Corporate Manslaughter (not another seminar!) and how to mitigate
• Managing subcontractors - and why this is a risk area for developer/investors/clients

Sophie White, Senior Associate, Employment

Employment issues in the downturn

• Top ten ways to avoid redundancy
• A guide to best practice when dealing with redundancies if all else fails

The seminar will start at 9:00am with registration at 8:30am. The talk is scheduled to finish at 10:30am. The venue is CMS Cameron McKenna, Mitre House, 160 Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4DD. Please click here for a map to the venue.

To register for this seminar please click here