Gain insight into ethical dilemmas in the family and civil Bars by joining us online for this free seminar. You'll hear practical advice for handling ethical challenges in court or when dealing with clients from a panel of experts.
26 February 2025, 5.30 to 7pm
Online
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About the seminar
You'll hear about common ethical scenarios at the family and civil Bar. We'll also guide you on how to make the most of our ethical enquiries service.
Why attend
You will:
- Hear from experienced Bar Council Ethics Committee members
- Discover common ethical scenarios that you may face
- Understand your ethical duties and responsibilities
- Learn how to use our free ethical enquiries service
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Chair
Fenner Moeran KC
Fenner Moeran KC was called in 1996 and took silk in 2014. He is one of the two co-chairs of the Bar Council’s Ethics Committee since 2023, having joined the committee over 20 years ago. Within the Ethics Committee, he has specialisations in civil issues relating to disclosure, confidentiality and conflicts of duty. At the Bar he has a wide-ranging commercial Chancery practice, with specialisms in trusts, civil fraud, pensions and financial services.
Speakers
Zeena Begum
Zeena is an experienced barrister who has practised in a number of different areas of law, including general civil and commercial law. More recently, Zeena has specialised in Chancery law and pensions law.
Zeena is an ethics trainer at Gray’s Inn, having trained students and new practitioners in ethics for a number of years. Prior to this, Zeena was a visiting lecturer, where she taught the civil law programme to part-time students studying the Bar practice and training course. Zeena was the sole tutor for the civil course and delivered ethics training to the students.
Andrew Granville Stafford
Andrew has been a member of the Bar Council’s Ethics Committee since 2015 and is currently one of its co-Vice Chairs. He was an elected member of the Bar Council from 2015 to 2022. He is a previous Chair of the Bar Council’s Direct Access Panel and co-author of the Lexis-Nexis guide to directaccess. Since 2011 he has been a BSB approved Public Access Trainer and he will be speaking about issues related to public access instructions.
Ruth Kirby KC
Ruth Kirby KC is a barrister, arbitrator and mediator. She specialises in law relating to children, elderly people and sports law (disciplinary and child protection issues). Ruth advises out of court but much of her work is concentrated in the court room setting, working both as a barrister and mediator. She has specialised for the last 20 years in cases involving cross jurisdictional disputes. She is qualified as a barrister in England and Wales and in Ireland. She is also an arbitrator in children’s cases. She enjoys learning about and from practices in foreign jurisdictions and, in 2019, organised an international symposium on family law in Tokyo and was part of the recent Bar Council family law delegation to the UAE.