Following the recent, high-profile issues concerning fire engineer Adam Kiziak of Tri Fire, and the questions this has raised about the reliability of EWS1 and PAS9980 assessments undertaken by Tri Fire, this panel session seeks to provide answers and guidance on the major issues facing affected parties.
The webinar will cover:
- Current status of EWS1s and FRAEWs undertaken by Tri Fire
- What should people be doing if they have a Tri Fire assessment?
- Current status of Tri Fire and its Professional Indemnity insurance
- Are there any options for claims against Tri Fire?
- Building insurance and building finance implications and market predictions
- Impact on property valuations
Speakers
Mark London, Partner, Construction
Mark is Senior Partner at Devonshires and heads up our Construction, Engineering and Procurement team. The team is made up of over 30 specialist construction lawyers carrying out work across a diverse range of sectors within the industry. Their clients include registered providers of social housing, local authorities, developers, sub-contractors and private individuals. The team operate from offices in London, Leeds, and Colchester.
Stephen Netherway, Partner, Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Stephen is one of the UK’s leading insurance lawyers, with over 30 years’ experience in the sector. With a formidable reputation for dealing with the most complex matters he has a market leading focus in business-critical commercial insurance and reinsurance disputes, including coverage and FOS/regulatory claims.
Stephen is experienced in all major classes of first party and third party insurance business, namely: professional indemnity/ negligence, marine, directors & officers and crime/ fidelity, property (and title risk), business interruption (including Covid claims), construction, accident & health, travel and other personal lines classes, life and critical Illness, public and products liability, surety and bonds, trade credit, contingency and cancellation, general commercial liability including employers’ liability, specie and ATE.
Julian Barker, Partner, Banking, Governance & Corporate
Julian advises on all aspects of finance made available to Registered Providers, including: bond issues (both wholesale and retail), private placements, syndicated and bilateral loans (sterling and other currencies), development finance loans, Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs), group refinancings in connection with mergers, intra-group lending and interest rate derivatives and related security.
Andrew Mace, Barrister, Tanfield Chambers
Andrew has over 25 years’ experience in the insolvency, restructuring and turnaround arena and acts for officeholders, directors, funders and creditors.
During the course of Andrew’s practice he has developed a wide-ranging knowledge of company, partnership, costs, commercial disputes and insolvency law. This enables him to advise clients with a good appreciation of the wider issues relevant to them.
He was a member of the stakeholder committee between 2011 and 2015 advising on the amendments to the Insolvency Rules which culminated in the Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016.
You will receive an email from Devonshires to confirm your place. Please note, places for this event are limited and may become oversubscribed. Clients of Devonshires will have priority and where we are heavily oversubscribed, we will limit places per organisation.
