Date / time
22/09/2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof John Birds will be giving an update on recent cases considering insurance warranties under the Insurance Act 2015 Part 3 regime.
Prof John Birds: Having started teaching law at Queen Mary College, University of London, John Birds joined the Law School at the University of Sheffield in 1978 and taught there for 28 years. He was Professor of Commercial Law for many years before moving to a chair at the University of Manchester. Since retirement in 2011 he has been an Emeritus Professor at Manchester and an Honorary Professor at Sheffield. His publications include Birds’ Modern Insurance Law (13th edition with Katie Richards, 2025) and he has been one of the editors of MacGillivray on Insurance Law since 1988. He is also general editor of The Encyclopedia of Insurance Law.