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Tabitta van Nouhuys and Natalie Vloemans will deliver a lecture on Dutch Insurance Law & Practice on Friday 8th May 2015

Michael Kingston, Partner, Marine Trade & Energy Group, DWF will deliver a lecture concerning the Polar Code on Friday 10th April 2015:

Neil Moody QC of 2 Temple Gardens, will deliver a lecture on Friday 13th March 2015 concerning Contractors’ All Risk Insurance: Everything You Need To Know But Were Afraid To Ask:

Torben Bondrop of Plesner, Copenhagen, will deliver a lecture concerning the Danish tobacco litigation on 20 February 2014:

• Product liability for smoking-related damage outside the EU directive
• Public knowledge of health risks associated with smoking
• The concept of dependence, addiction or habituation
• The question of causality
• The state of the art defence (“system damage” in Scandinavia) within product liability
• Declarations of tar and nicotine – are they misleading?
• The EU Directive on product liability and claims for damages caused by cigarette smoking
• Is there room for a next case in Scandinavia on alcohol-related health damage?

The 12 December will be “Insurance Cover for Liability for Abuse2 presented by Colin Edelman QC of Devereux Chambers.

•  Scope of “abuse”

• Categories of insured exposed to liability
• Types of responsive policy
• Ambit of “insured”

Professor Rob Merkin, University Of Exeter; Special Counsel, DLA Phillips Fox will present BILA’s Annual Update on Insurance Law