Event Programme

International Arbitration Day

LIDW26 Opening Reception

LIDW26 Main Conference

LIDW NextGen Academy

Banking disputes: A horizon scanning

Hausfeld, Reed Smith, Brick Court Chambers, Fountain Court Chambers

Business & Finance

The Global Sanctions Landscape: given US secondary sanctions, Chinese counter-measures and EU retaliatory measures, how have courts responded and can sanctions be effective in times of growing political divergence? What does the future hold?

Simmons & Simmons, 3 Verulam Buildings

Sanctions

LegalTech Showcase

Innovation

Civil and Common Law Approaches to Expert Evidence

Signature litigation, Compass Lexecon

Cross-border Disputes, Experts & Expert Evidence

Lessons from Le Patourel, the CAT’s First Collective Action Trial

Simmons & Simmons, AlixPartners, BT

Antitrust & Competition, Corporate & Commercial Disputes

FIDIC at the Frontier: Amendments, Adaptation and the Limits of Standard Forms in the Energy Transition

Keating Chambers, SANDS Legal LLP

N/A (eg a multi-practice area theme or practical topic such as wellbeing)

What next for the UK as a leading centre for dispute resolution? Arbitration, mediation, the courts and commercial reality.

39 Essex Chambers, Independent Mediators, Civil Mediation Council

N/A (eg a multi-practice area theme or practical topic such as wellbeing)

All roads lead to … Why is London uniquely central to the resolution of insurance and reinsurance disputes? – some international perspectives

Fenchurch Law, 7 King's Bench Walk

Commercial Arbitration, Corporate & Commercial Disputes

When winning isn’t enough – asset recovery in the face of enforcement obstacles

Stephenson Harwood, Blackstone Chambers

Fraud & Asset Recovery

Hot topics in aviation disputes

Hausfeld, Norton Rose Fulbright, XXIV Old Buildings

N/A (eg a multi-practice area theme or practical topic such as wellbeing)

Delivering and Testing Expert Evidence

Keating Chambers, Martello Global

Experts & Expert Evidence

LIDW26 Gala Dinner

How sanctions regimes are disrupting the UK and Offshore Litigation landscape

Kingsley Napley, Collas Crill

Cross-border Disputes, Sanctions

International Law After the Rules Based Order: Legitimacy and Power in a Changing Global System

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, Twenty Essex

Public International Law

From Mine to Market: Regulatory and Dispute Trends in the Global Critical Minerals Market

Freeths LLP, Young ITA

Cross-border Disputes, Regulatory & Public Sector

Emergency Relief in Arbitration: Emergency Arbitrators, Interim Measures and the Arbitration Act 2025

Howard Kennedy LLP, One Essex Court

Arbitration-related Litigation

Technology meets misconduct: investigations in the modern risk landscape

Fox Williams LLP, Ernst & Young, 3 Verulam Buildings, Collas Crill

Data & Cyber, N/A (eg a multi-practice area theme or practical topic such as wellbeing)

International fraud disputes: opportunities and challenges for arbitration

A&O Shearman, HKA, 11 KBW, Enyo Law

Cross-border Disputes, Fraud & Asset Recovery

LIDW NextGen Social

Directors at Risk: Knowledge, Oversight and Liability

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP, Hausfeld & Co LLP

Corporate & Commercial Disputes, Professional Disciplinary & Negligence