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art. 39 MAGNA CARTA: No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or

exiled . nor will we proceed with force against him . except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

art. 40 MAGNA CARTA: To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

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Insolventierecht | Ondernemingsrecht | Verbintenissenrecht

28 mei 2013 t/m 1 juni 2013, The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, London

Prof. mr. J.H. Nieuwenhuis

emeritus Hoogleraar Burgerlijk recht Universiteit Leiden

Prof. mr. N.E.D. Faber

hoogleraar Burgerlijk recht Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Senior Adviser Clifford Chance

Prof. mr. S.M. Bartman

hoogleraar Ondernemingsrecht, Universiteit Leiden, advocaat DLA Piper

inclusief 5 Magna Charta Webinars sessie hoogleraren


London

De Academie voor de Rechtspraktijk gaat voor de Magna Charta een studiereis organiseren naar de plek waar de

originele Magna Charta ligt, namelijk Londen. Dit willen we doen met top sprekers en op toplocaties. De combinatie

tussen beide maakt de naam Magna Charta Premium meer dan waar.

We zijn niet over een dag ijs gegaan bij het opstellen van het programma, zo hebben we het inhoudelijke programma breed

opgezet en zullen de actualiteiten worden besproken met een behoorlijke mate van diepgang. We zijn dus erg blij dat

prof. S.M. Bartman, prof. N.E.D. Faber en prof. J.H. Nieuwenhuis hebben toegezegd.

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Top sprekers in combinatie met toplocaties met geschiedenis.

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De UNESCO heeft de Magna Carta in 2009 opgenomen op de Werelderfgoedlijst voor documenten omdat het een mijlpaal is van vrijheid

en democratie met een wereldwijde invloed. De Magna Carta is een uniek document omdat voor het eerst gedetailleerd is vastgelegd op

welke wijze de absolute macht van de koning beperkt wordt bij belastingheffing, feodale rechten en rechtspraak. Ook wordt het gewoon-

terecht in ere hersteld om koninklijke willekeur tegen te gaan. Regelmatig wordt dan ook gesteld dat het document de hoeksteen is van

Engelse vrijheid, recht en democratie. De Magna Carta is een van de beroemdste documenten uit de Engelse geschiedenis.

Dinsdag 28 mei

18.00 uur ontvangst en diner in hotel Waldorf

Dag 1

Woensdag 29 mei

07.00 uur Ontbijt hotel Waldorf

08.00 uur College actualiteiten ondernemingsrecht in

the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn

10.00 uur Pauze

10.15 uur College vervolg actualiteiten ondernemingsrecht

12.15 uur Lunch in the Great Hall

13.00 uur College vervolg actualiteiten ondernemingsrecht

14.00 uur Vrij

18.00 uur Verzamelen in het Waldorf hotel

19.00 uur Diner in The Tower of London

Dag 2

Donderdag 30 mei


08.00 uur College actualiteiten insolventierecht in


10.00 uur Pauze

10.15 uur College vervolg actualiteiten insolventierecht


13.00 uur College vervolg actualiteiten insolventierecht

14.00 uur Vrij


19.00 uur Diner op de Wellington Arch

Dag 3

Vrijdag 31 mei


08.00 uur College actualiteiten verbintenissenrecht in


10.00 uur Pauze

10.15 uur College vervolg actualiteiten verbintenissenrecht


13.00 uur College vervolg actualiteiten verbintenissenrecht

14.00 uur Vrij


15.00 uur Rondleiding Royal Courts of Justice

Dag 4

Zaterdag 1 juni

08.00 uur Ontbijt

11.00 uur Uitchecken hotel

11.30 uur OPTIE; Lezing Magna Charta London in

the British Library

13.00 uur Afscheid met lunch in het Waldorf


Programma

College 1

Prof. mr. S.M. Bartman

Hoofdonderwerp: Actualiteiten Ondernemingsrecht

Sub onderwerpen:

• Bestuurders/commissarisaansprakelijkheid

• Enquêterecht

• Concernfinanciering

College 2

Prof. mr. N.E.D. Faber

Hoofdonderwerp: Actualiteiten Insolventierecht

Sub onderwerpen:

• Uitwinning van pand en hypotheek tijdens faillissement

• Girale betaling, verrekening en stornering rond de faillissementsdatum

• Actio Pauliana, onrechtmatige daad (Peeters q.q./Gatzen-vordering)

• Boedelvraagstukken

College 3

Prof. mr. J.H. Nieuwenhuis

Hoofdonderwerp: Actualiteiten Verbintenissenrecht

Sub onderwerpen:

• Afgebroken onderhandelingen

• Uitleg van (commerciële) contracten


Inhoud programma

Aanvullend programma29 mei: op woensdag zullen we ons rond 17.30 richting TheTower of London begeven. Daar zullen wij genieten van een ape-ritief op The Wall Walk om aansluitend te dineren in The UpperWakefield Tower. Na het diner staat er een privé bezichtiging van de Kroon Juwelenop het programma en zullen we ook The Ceremony of Keys bij-wonen. Het is een unieke kans om The Tower of London te be-zichtigen en meer te weten te komen over de beruchte toren dieeen grote rol heeft gespeeld in de geschiedenis van het VerenigdKoninkrijk. 30 mei: donderdagavond zullen wij dineren op een anderehistorische locatie in het Hyde Park: Wellington Arch, met eengeweldig uitzicht op de Londense skyline. 31 mei: op vrijdag om 15.00 krijgen we na de cursus een rond-leiding in The Supreme Court of London. Dit is de rechtbankwaar de zaken die onder de Engelse, Noord Ierse en Schotse wetvallen, worden behandeld. Hierna bent u vrij om uw eigen pro-gramma in te vullen.

Lincoln`s Inn The exact origins of Lincoln’s Inn, and indeed of the other threeInns of Court, are not fully known. The extant records of Lin-coln’s Inn open in 1422, the earliest of any of the Inns of Court;but a society of lawyers by that name was then already in exis-tence. It is likely that it evolved during the late part of the fourt-eenth century. In contrast to many of the colleges of Oxford or

Cambridge, which it resembles, there was no conscious foundingor dated charter.First, why “Inn”? As well as applying to the houses used by tra-vellers and pilgrims - the usage that usually comes to mind - theterm, or its Latin equivalent hospitium, also applied to the largehouses of magnates of all kinds, such as statesmen, bishops, civilservants, and lawyers, whose business brought them to town,especially when Parliament and the courts were in session. Thearea in which many were situated were then suburbs, salubriousbut convenient for both Westminster and the City. This type ofinn was often not simply an individual residence but providedaccommodation for a whole retinue of guests, and typically in-cluded, both as a focus for medieval living arrangements and asa status symbol, a hall (indeed, the bishops’ inns were also calledpalaces). Law students, or “apprentices” of law, who at the periodlearnt their craft largely by attending court, sought shared ac-commodation during the legal terms, sometimes in part of an innof a magnate who did not need it.Originally there were at least twenty inns associated with lawyers.Gradually they became places of legal education, and there emer-ged the four principal Inns of Court (ie Inns of the men of Court)that we know today. The other Inns became known as the Innsof Chancery. You may come across their names, such as StapleInn or Clement’s Inn, in the vicinity. They were treated at first aspreparatory schools for the main Inns of Court and then duringthe seventeenth century became the Inns exclusively for attorneys(ie solicitors) and clerks (they had all vanished as societies by the


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beginning of the twentieth century).The term “barrister” was originally a purely internal or domesticrank - a graduate of the Inn who had successfully negotiated theelaborate legal exercises set in Hall, which was laid out for mootslike a court, with a bar. Although there were various attempts toregulate those who appeared in court, any requirement that theybe barristers of an Inn of Court emerged at first only as a matterof practice - a case in 1590 finally confirmed it as a matter of law.And once that happened the process of excluding mere attorneysfrom membership of the Inns of Court was accelerated.The recognition of barristers’ exclusive right of audience was nodoubt due in part to the thoroughness of the original medievalsystem of legal education provided by the Inns - at least sevenyears between admission as a student and call to the bar. Thatsystem completely broke down with the English Civil War in1642. It has to be said that legal education in the Inns from thenuntil the nineteenth century, or later, cannot be regarded as themost glorious part of their history. The old residence require-ments for students were diluted into the mere ritual of dining,and the old exercises were reduced to the perfunctory formalityof reciting the first few lines of a standard formula from a pre-prepared card. Bar exams were only introduced in 1852 and werenot even compulsory until 1872, and in any event could be pas-sed by anyone with a modicum of application with a few weeksstudy. So a far cry from today.Then, why “Lincoln’s” Inn? Tradition has it that the name comesfrom Henry de Lacy, third Earl of Lincoln (d. 1311) whose ownhouse was near by and may have been patron of the Inn. Tradi-tion is not to be entirely gainsaid, and indeed the Earl’s arms form

part of the Inn’s arms, but it is more likely that the name camefrom Thomas de Lincoln, one of the serjeants at law (senior prac-titioners, before the days of QCs) during the fourteenth century.

The Tower of London In 1078 gaf Willem de Veroveraar als koning Willem I opdrachtvoor de bouw van de White Tower, een vierkant fort dat moestdienen ter bescherming van de Normandische veroveraars tegenaanvallen van binnen en buiten. Eerdere forten op die plaatswaren voornamelijk van hout geweest, maar hij beval om zijnTower van steen te laten maken. De White Tower dankt zijn naamaan de witte stenen, een soort kalk, die erin zijn aangebracht enaan de torens op de hoeken. Koning Richard Leeuwenhart lietde slotgracht graven, gevuld met water uit de Theems. Later wer-den om het fort heen extra verdedigingsmuren gebouwd en erontstond een uitgebreid gebouwencomplex, dat eenvoudig"Tower" genoemd werd. Het oorspronkelijke fort stond (en staat)nu feitelijk midden in een groter kasteel.De Tower diende voor het laatst als paleis in de tijd van JacobusI (1566-1625). Het is in de geschiedenis vooral bekend gewordenals gevangenis voor met name gevangenen uit de hogere kringen.Zo zat koningin Elizabeth I een tijdlang gevangen in de Towertijdens het bewind van haar zuster Maria Tudor. Een van de laat-ste gevangenen die vastzat in de Tower was Rudolf Hess tijdensde Tweede Wereldoorlog. De tweeling Ronald en Reginald Krayzaten er in 1952 een paar dagen vast wegens dienstweigering.In de 13e eeuw werd een koninklijke menagerie geopend,mogelijk al in 1204 ten tijde van koning John, en waarschijnlijkvoorzien van dieren uit een eerdere menagerie uit 1125 van


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koning Hendrik I uit zijn paleis in Woodstock bij Oxford. Deoorsprong ervan wordt vaak gedateerd in 1235, toen Hendrik IIIeen huwelijkscadeau ontving, bestaande uit drie luipaarden(waarschijnlijk waren het leeuwen) van Frederik II, keizer vanhet Heilige Duitse Rijk. In 1264 werd de menagerie verplaatstnaar het bolwerk (the Bulwark), dat dan ook toepasselijk denaam Lion Tower verkreeg. Tijdens de regering van Elizabeth Iwerd de menagerie opengesteld voor publiek.

Ceremony of KeysProbably the best known such ceremony is the one that takesplace every night at the Tower of London, and has done so insome form or another since the 14th century. At exactly 9.53pm,the Chief Yeoman Warder, dressed in Tudor Watchcoat, meetsthe military escort, made up of members of the Tower of LondonGuard. Together, the CYW and the Yeoman Warder 'Watchman'secure the main gates of the Tower. Upon their return downWater Lane, the party is halted by the sentry and challenged toidentify themselves:Sentry: Who comes there?Chief Warder: The keys.S: Whose keys?CW: Queen Elizabeth's keys. (identifying the keys as being thoseof the current British monarch)S: Pass Queen Elizabeth's Keys. All's well.Following this, the party makes its way through the BloodyTower Archway into the fortress, where they halt at the bottomof the Broadwalk Steps. On the top of the Stairs, under the com-mand of their officer, the Tower Guard present arms and the

Chief Warder raises his hat, proclaiming:CW: God preserve Queen Elizabeth.S: Amen!He then takes the keys to the Queen's House for safekeeping,while the Last Post is sounded.As with many events of ceremony in the United Kingdom, it takessome significant outside influence to interrupt the Ceremony ofthe Keys. The one time when the ceremony was interrupted wasduring the Second World War, when there was an air raid onLondon, and a number of incendiary bombs fell on the old Vic-torian guardroom just as the Chief Yeoman Warder and the escortwere coming through the Bloody Tower archway. The shock andthe noise of the bombs falling blew over the escort and the ChiefYeoman Warder, but they stood up, dusted themselves down,and carried on. The Tower holds a letter from the Officer of theGuard apologising to King George VI that the ceremony was late,along with a reply from the King which says that the officer isnot to be punished as the delay was due to enemy action.

The Royal Courts of Justice The 11 architects competing for the contract for the Law Courtseach submitted alternative designs with the view of the possibleplacing of the building on the Thames Embankment. The presentsite was chosen only after much debate.

The Great Hall in 1882 In 1868 it was finally decided that George Edmund Street, R.A.was to be appointed the sole architect for the Royal Courts ofJustice and it was he who designed the whole building from

foundation to varied carvings and spires. Building was started in1873 by Messrs. Bull & Sons of Southampton.

Floor of the foyer of Royal Courts of Justice There was a serious strike of masons at an early stage whichthreatened to extend to the other trades and caused a temporarystoppage of the works. In consequence, foreign workmen werebrought in – mostly Germans. This aroused bitter hostility on thepart of the men on strike and the newcomers had to be housedand fed in the building. However, these disputes were eventuallysettled and the building took eight years to complete and wasofficially opened by Queen Victoria on the 4 December 1882.Street died before the building was opened. Much of thepreparatory legal work was completed by Edwin Wilkins Fieldincluding promotion of the Courts of Justice Building Act 1865and the Courts of Justice Concentration (Site) Act 1865. A statueof Field stands in the Courts.

The Strand facade of the Royal Courts of Justice in 1890 Parliament paid £1,453,000 for the 6-acre (24,000 m2) site uponwhich 450 houses had to be demolished. The building was paidfor by cash accumulated in court from the estates of the intestateto the sum of £700,000. Oak work and fittings in the court costa further £70,000 and with decoration and furnishing the totalcost for the building came to under a million pounds.The dimensions of the building (in round figures) are: 470 feet(140 m) from east to west; 460 feet (140 m) from north to south;245 feet (75 m) from the Strand level to the tip of the fleche.

Entering through the main gates in the Strand one passes undertwo elaborately carved porches fitted with iron gates. The carvingover the outer porch consists of heads of the most eminent Judgesand Lawyers. Over the highest point of the upper arch is a figureof Jesus; to the left and right at a lower level are figures ofSolomon and Alfred the Great; that of Moses is at the northernfront of the building. Also at the northern front, over the Judgesentrance are a stone cat and dog representing fighting litigants incourt.On either side are gateways leading to different courts and to juryand witness rooms from which separate staircases are providedfor them to reach their boxes in court. During the 1960s, juryrooms in the basement area were converted to courtrooms. Ateither end of the hall are handsome marble galleries from whichthe entire Main Hall can be viewed.The walls and ceilings (of the older, original Courts) are panelledin oak which in many cases is elaborately carved. In Court 4, theLord Chief Justice’s court, there is an elaborately carved woodenRoyal Coat of Arms. Each court has an interior unique to itself;they were each designed by different architects.There are, in addition to the Waiting Rooms, several Arbitrationand Consultation Chambers together with Robing Rooms formembers of the bar and solicitor-advocates.

Wellington ArchSet in the heart of royal London at Hyde Park Corner, WellingtonArch was built in 1825-7 as part of a campaign to improve theroyal parks. Intended as a victory arch proclaiming Wellington's


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defeat of Napoleon, it is crowned by the largest bronze sculpturein Europe, depicting the Angel of Peace descending on the ‘Quad-riga’ – or four-horsed chariot – of War.Today it is a landmark for both Londoners and visitors and a greataddition to a memorable day out in London. Visitors can enjoythe glorious panoramas over London's Royal Parks and theHouses of Parliament from the balconies below the spectacularbronze sculpture. The view of the Household Cavalry on theirway to and from the Changing of the Guard is a joy to behold!Shutterstock: 89954095 wellington arch

The Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme courtin all matters under English law, Northern Irish law and Scottishcivil law. It is the court of last resort and highest appellate courtin the United Kingdom; however the High Court of Justiciaryremains the supreme court for criminal cases in Scotland. TheSupreme Court also has jurisdiction to resolve disputes relatingto devolution in the United Kingdom and concerning the legalpowers of the three devolved governments or laws made by thedevolved legislatures.

The Supreme Court was established by Part 3 of the Constitutio-nal Reform Act 2005 and started work on 1 October 2009. Itassumed the judicial functions of the House of Lords, which wereexercised by the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary (commonly called"Law Lords"), the 12 professional judges appointed as membersof the House of Lords to carry out its judicial business. Its juris-

diction over devolution matters had previously been held by theJudicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Because of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty, the court islimited in its powers of judicial review, unlike the constitutionaland supreme courts of some other countries. This means that itcannot overturn any primary legislation made by Parliament.However it can overturn secondary legislation if, for example,that legislation is found to be ultra vires of the powers in primarylegislation allowing it to be made. Furthermore, under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998, thecourt may make a declaration of incompatibility which meansthat it believes that the legislation subject to the declaration is in-compatible with one of the rights of the European Conventionon Human Rights and such a declaration can apply equally toprimary and secondary legislation. The legislation is not overtur-ned by the declaration but powers under section 10 of the actare triggered to allow ministers to amend the legislation by sta-tutory instrument to remove the incompatibility.


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Cursusprijs deelnemer: Euro 3.900,-- excl Btw. Dit bedrag is inclusief studiemateriaal, 4 hotelovernachtingen, 4 keer ontbijt,

4 keer lunch en 3 keer diner, excursies naar Magna Carta en Supreme Court.

Cursusprijs partner: Euro 2.100,-- excl Btw. Dit bedrag is inclusief, 4 hotelovernachtingen, 4 keer ontbijt, 3 keer diner,

excursies naar Magna Carta en Supreme Court

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