British Insurance Law Association 

BILA is a unique organisation, its membership being drawn from Insurers, Insurance Brokers and other intermediaries, Academic Lawyers, Solicitors and Barristers. In addition to UK members, there are many from all over the world. BILA is not only a domestic organisation, it is also the British Chapter of the Association International de Droit des Assurances (AIDA) and is an active participant in its quadrennial world congress.

"Rogues & Rotters...." BILA's Half Day Conference held on June 9, 2009.
Speakers slides and papers may be found in the Members section of the website on the Events page

Insurance Contract Law Reform  

Consultation Paper on Insurance Contract Law: Misrepresentation, Non-disclosure and Breach of Warranty by the Insured

A link to BILA's recent response to the Law Commission's Consultation Paper on Insurance Contract Law may be found on the Home Page of the Members'  area of the website. 

Half Day Conference March 31, 2009 - the slides from the conference may be found in the Members area of the website on the Events page     

LECTURE SCRIPTS

We would like to remind members that lecture scripts, handouts and other materials provided for Lectures, the Colloquium and Conferences are now posted in the Members area of the website. In view of the ongoing interest in the Restatement of Insurance Contract Law we would draw members attention to the papers presented by representatives of the European Group on Day 2 of the BILA Colloquium held  on the 24/25 May, 2007. 

The BILA Charitable Trust with the generous support of Lloyd's hosted an event in the Old Library at Lloyd's on the 10 February, 2009. The event entitled "London's future as a centre for effective international insurance dispute resolution" was chaired by the Rt Hon. Sir Anthony Evans QC. The speakers were Ewen Gilmour, CEO Chaucer Syndicates and Deputy Chairman of Lloyd's, Adrian Mecz, partner Chadbourne & Parke LLP, and Ian Hunter QC of Essex Court. Click on the speakers names to access their notes.


 

BILA DOES NOT GIVE ADVICE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, NOR DOES IT MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS AND/OR ENDORSE LAW FIRMS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS WHO MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE MEMBERS OF BILA   

 

 
Next Event

BILA's Half Day Conference and Annual General Meeting

Friday September 11, 2009 in the morning

Location: The Old Library at Lloyd's

Full details of the programme and the timings will be posted in the near future.

 

PLEASE MARK THE DATE IN YOUR DIARIES 

Journal

Journals are now posted into the Members area of the website and the current issue No 116 - May 2008 is available in this area - follow the link on the left hand side of the page to the Members site to log in. If you have mislaid your login details please contact secretariat@bila.org.uk to be reset

To mark the Association's 40th Anniversary, the BILA Charitable Trustees launched the "BILA Journal Online", a project to make available, in electronic format, all of the back issues of the BILA Journal

The fully searchable archive of previous journals is available by clicking here  

 
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