Programme

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15 APRIL 2026

18:30 – 20:30 Pre-Conference Drinks

16 APRIL 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 10:00 Welcome & Keynote Speakers

Professor Caroline Fournet, Head of the Law School, University of Exeter

Professor Mark O’Brien, Chair of the Association of Law Teachers

Kirsty Brimelow KC is Chair of the Bar 2026. Kirsty practises in criminal, international and public law from Doughty Street Chambers, where she is on the management board as head of the criminal law team. Kirsty was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2011. Kirsty has the distinction of having led in both Civil and Criminal Courts of Appeal, the Supreme Court, the Privy Council, and the European Court of Human Rights. In 2021, Kirsty was appointed a deputy High Court judge in the King’s Bench Division and in 2022 appointed a Recorder. Kirsty was a member of the Bar Council Public Affairs Committee and a Bar Council Young Spokesperson from 1998 to 2008. Kirsty was the first female Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee (2012 to 2018) and served as the Vice Chair and then Chair of the Criminal Bar Association (2021 to 2023). In 2022, she led negotiations with the government of an historic increase in fees for criminal barristers. Kirsty is a Bencher of Gray’s Inn and was elected to the management board (2020 to 2023). In 2018 Kirsty won both the First 100 Years ‘Inspirational Woman in Law Barrister of the Year’ Award and Advocate’s pro bono ‘International Barrister of the Year’ Award. She twice has featured as The Times Lawyer of the week. Kirsty is a trustee and director of the leading global environmental charity WWF UK, visiting professor at Goldsmiths Faculty of Law (2019 to 2025), and founding member of the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk.

10:00 – 10:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

10:30 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions I

12:00 – 13:00 Keynote Speaker

Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos KG has served as Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice for England and Wales since 11 January 2021. He presides over the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal and leads the development of civil procedure and court reform. He chairs the Civil Justice Council, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the Online Procedure Rules Committee and oversees the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives and the Forum on Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research. Sir Geoffrey also sits on the LawtechUK Panel and chairs both the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce and the International Jurisdiction Taskforce. Internationally, he is First Vice-President of the European Law Institute (from September 2025), and serves on the Steering Group of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts.

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Sessions II

15:00 – 15:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

15:30 – 17:00 Parallel Sessions III

18:30 – 21:00 Conference Drinks Reception & Dinner at Reed Hall, a stunning grade II listed building nestled in a beautiful area of campus among landscaped gardens

17 APRIL 2026

08:00 – 08:30 Welcome Coffee

08:30 – 09:30 Keynote Speakers

Kirsten Maslen is Senior Director of Growth & Commercial Strategy at Thomson Reuters, where she leads growth planning and commercial strategy for the Legal Professionals Europe business. A former projects lawyer, she moved from private practice to the public sector, advising on PPP and complex outsourcing, before joining Practical Law as an editor on procurement, outsourcing and public-to-public arrangements. She has since held proposition, product strategy and marketing roles at Thomson Reuters. Her recent projects include working on the design, development and testing of AI agents for due diligence and contract compliance.

Professor Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics and an empirical legal scholar who has worked on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justice. Interdisciplinary in approach, he has worked alongside economists, management scientists, and psychologists in such work, as well as with judges, Parliamentarians, policy-makers, and, professional regulators and representatives. He blogs at lawyerwatch and on the Post Office Scandal, and regularly features in professional and national press.

09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions IV

11:00 – 11:20 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

11:20 – 12:40 Programme Partner Parallel Panels

12:40 – 13:45 Lunch & ALT AGM

13:45 – 15:15 Parallel Sessions V

15:15 – 15:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

15:30 – 16:45 Parallel Sessions VI

16:45 – 17:00 Closing & Announcement of Prizes