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New Law Journal profile: Gary Lawrenson

Mathew Ditchburn’s election as chair of the PLA

Law Reform Committee Chair, Peter Bourke, comments on the reform of the law of forfeiture following the recent PLA survey which showed members had little support for the draft bill.

The honour is all mine: The JPLA host an insightful Q&A session hearing from two of the PLA’s honorary members, Katie Bradford and Vivien King, with hints and tips on what they wish they had known when they were starting out in their careers and some war stories from their time in practice

Sir Winston Churchill famously said: “a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist the opportunity in every difficulty.” Adopting this test, our Education and Training Committee (ETC), led brilliantly by Rebecca Campbell over the last couple of years, are most certainly optimists.

The PLA Annual General Meeting will take place on 1 November 2021 at 6pm at One London Wall, Barbican, London EC2Y 5EB

On 26 October 2020 PLA published a working paper on e-signatures. It was put together by a working group of PSLs across a number of firms.

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The Role of the Surveyor-Expert and their evidence in litigation

Imogen Dodds (Falcon Chambers) - Property receivership and borrower insolvency