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Louise Hosking

Managing Director, Hosking Associates Ltd

Louise works with a variety of clients as a freelance Safety Director to give direction to companies and enable them to manage safety effectively throughout their organisations.

Graham North

Graham North is a Professional Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Past Chairman of the Boundaries and Party Wall Practice Panel at the RICS.

He is Editor of "The Party Wall Surveyors' Manual", contributed to the latest edition of the RICS Guidance Note and has also updated John Anstey's book "Party Walls & What to do with Them" which has just been published by the RICS.

Graham is a member and the Treasurer of the Pyramus & Thisbe Club, both the London Branch and National Organisation, an organisation for property professionals with an interest in Party Walls matters and associated subjects.

He has just been awarded the Michael Barrett Memorial Award by the RICS for his outstanding contribution to surveying in respect of Party Wall and Boundary Issues.

Barry Denyer Green

Barrister, Falcon Chambers, Falcon Court, London

Barry Denyer-Green is Chairman of the Compulsory Purchase Association, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, an Honorary member of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers and a Fellow of the College of Estate Management. He is also a Member of CCPRAG, the compulsory purchase committee providing advice to DETR. He has provided advice and been a consultee to government departments including DEFRA, DETR and DEC & Local Government.

He was editor of the Estates Gazette Law Reports Case Summaries 1986-2006 and Joint Editor of the Planning Law Reports 1988-2006. Barry Denyer-Green was also the author of Compulsory Purchase and Compensation (8th Edition) 2005; Development Law and Planning (3rd Edition) 1999 and Law of Commons and of Town and Village Greens (2006).

He is currently a barrister in practice at Falcon Chambers, Falcon Court, London EC4Y 1AA specializing in, amongst other things, compulsory purchase and compensation matters acting for claimants and acquiring authorities and he lectures at CPD functions throughout the country for surveyors and lawyers.

Ant Wilson

BSc(Hons) Director, Faber Maunsell

Ant gained a BSc(Hons) in Building (Environmental) Engineering from Bath University and went on to join Oscar Faber (now Faber Maunsell) in 1979.

He leads the Applied Research group within the Buildings Division in St. Albans and works actively within the sustainable development group promoting low energy/carbon building designs.

Ant has worked on a wide range of construction and research projects mainly from an energy performance perspective.

He is a BSRIA and CIBSE Council member and on the editorial panel for both BSER&T and Sustain magazine. He has been very involved with dynamic thermal modelling of buildings to predict energy demands.

Speaker's Website: http://www.fabermaunsell.com/

Julie Gattegno

Julie advises, resolves disputes and litigates on a wide variety of contentious real estate issues. Julie's experience includes advising on various breaches of leasehold covenants, including dilapidations and service charges; dealing with applications for consent to assign/underlet; advising on rent reviews, and all other landlord and tenant problems. She also deals with contractual and development disputes, including specific performance claims, injunctions, rights of light, party wall disputes and redevelopment of business premises. Julie has also developed a special interest in property insolvency issues.

Julie has appeared on Legal Network Television training videos, The Surveyors Channel and speaks at seminars, including Central Law Training, Hawksmere and The Continuing Professional Development Foundation. Julie also writes articles for the property press, including the Estates Gazette and Property Law Journal.

Jennifer Rickard LLB(Hons)

Real Estate Dispute Resolution, Nabarro Nathanson

Jennifer Rickard has been a partner in the Property Litigation department of Nabarro Nathanson for 19 years.

She is a litigator specialising in property related disputes, including all aspects of landlord and tenant (including rent reviews, dilapidations and opposed renewals), professional negligence, claims for rectification, vendor and purchaser and development disputes and property related insolvency. She represented one of the parties in CEDR's (Centre for Dispute Resolution) first Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE) (a form of dispute resolution).

Jennifer speaks regularly at external and client seminars and writes articles in property journals. She is member of the Property Investment Forum.

Her reported cases include:

• Checkpoint -v- Strathclyde Pension Fund
• Mannai -v- Eagle Star Life Assurance
• Lewisham Investment Partnership -v- Morgan
• Straudley -v- Mount Eden Land Limited

Graham Chase

Dip Est Man FRICS FCIArb FInstCPD

Graham Chase was RICS President for the 2006/2007 session.

Graham qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1978 and has been involved in the commercial property sector for the last 30 years. Specialising in retail and leisure property, he set up his own practice, Chase & Partners of which he is Chairman, in 1995, having been previously Chairman of the Retail Division of Colliers Erdman Lewis and prior to that a Partner at Clive Lewis and Partners.

Chase & Partners’ work covers both the in-town and out-of-town retail and leisure property sectors in occupational and investment agency, development consultancy, valuation and professional work including CPO compensation and town planning.

He has personally been involved in the acquisition and sale of over £3bn of retail warehouse property and a large number of shopping centre developments and investment with recent schemes including Chesterfield, Wrexham, Sevenoaks, Kidderminster and Enfield. Graham has advised on the acquisition of the Iceland Group and Booker Group and on the sale and leasebacks with a value in excess of £350m, and had advised HBOS on the valuation and business planning for the financing of the Agora and Catalyst shopping Centre portfolios with a combined value of over £700m.

Graham is an Independent Expert and Arbitrator on rent reviews, service charges, development agreements and other retail and leisure property issues, and has acted as RICS representative appearing before House of Commons and House of Lords Select Committees on a number of issues. He is a regular speaker at professional conferences and executive author on the soon to be published Lease Renewal Handbook by RICS Books.

Graham is currently Chairman of PAMADA (The Property Marketing Advertising and Design Awards), sits on the Board of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development and is a director of the CPD Foundation.

Speaker's Website: www.chaseandpartners.co.uk

Michael Lister

Michael is a Chartered Surveyor.

He spent 15 years building up Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now J P Morgan) to be one of the biggest property lenders in London.

He then joined Bank of Ireland as Head of Property Lending and built it into one of the major property lenders in the UK.

In 2005 he set up his own Private Equity fund which now invests in a variety of non property corporates, and he is on boards of several of them.

Michael is now also Senior Partner (property lending) at Clydesdale Bank part time and provides training courses for the bank.

Speaker's Website: http://www.cbonline.co.uk

Professor Barry Gilbertson

A partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers, Barry is an acknowledged expert in property insolvency and a leading fixed charge receiver. He specialises in strategic solutions for real estate within a business context.

He was President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 2004/5, is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Founder Chairman of Non-Administrative Receivers Association. He is also a Counselor of Real Estate and on the United Nations Real Estate Advisory Group.

Barry is a renowned international speaker and has spoken at conferences and worked on projects in over 28 countries. He has a monthly opinion column in Estates Gazette and is a respected commentator on business issues affecting the property industry. He has been published more than 80 times in the UK and 13 other countries.

Speaker's Website: http://www.pwc.com

David Richards

David is a consultant working internationally in major disputes involving delay and disruption.

He first gave opinion evidence in this area 15 years ago and was, until he recently set up his own practice, a director of Pickavance Consulting.

He is involved in high profile disputes, but not Wembley, and was on the drafting committee of the SCL protocol

Professor Malcolm Hollis

Malcolm Hollis has been a Chartered Surveyor for over 35 years. He specialises in Defect Recognition, the Diagnosis of the Cause of Failure and the interpretation of Liability for such matters as Dilapidations, Service Charges and Risk Analysis.

He was appointed Professor by the University of Reading in 1988 and has written books on both Surveying Buildings and Dilapidations. The fifth edition of 'Surveying Buildings', was published in 2005 and the second edition of 'Pocket Surveying Buildings' was published in 2006. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Building Appraisal.

Speaker's Website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/crer/hollis.html

Viven King

Vivien is a solicitor, a consultant to the nationwide law firm Bond Pearce based at its Exeter office, a consultant to the College of Law and a visiting lecturer with the College of Estate Management. Vivien also conducts in-house training for a variety of organisations in the name of Hatherleigh Training.

Vivien was elected as a honorary member of RICS in June 2003 - a rare honour of which she is extremely proud.

Viven writes and lectures extensively on all aspects of property related litigation. She is a contributor to the text books Commercial Property Disputes and Nuisances (both published by Sweet and Maxwell), a member of the property editorial panel of Practical Law plc and of Journal of Building Appraisal and a regular contributor to the property and legal press.

Viven is a PACT Arbitrator, a Fellow of the Institute of Continuing Professional Development, a member of the Property Litigation Association and of its Law Reform Committee, a member of ARBRIX, of the British Council of Shopping Centres and of the Centre for Accessible Environments. She is a member of the RICS Working Party for dilapidations and an Honorary Member of the RICS Register of Inclusive Environment Consultants and sits upon its management board.

Any spare time is spent cooking in her home in the South of France, a bottle of red wine at her elbow.

Speaker's Website: http://www.hatherleightraining.com/

Paul Winstone

Paul Winstone is a chartered building surveyor with over 35 years experience. He is a director of Watts Group PLC, based at their London City office and advises them on Health & Safety matters.

He has health & safety qualifications and is a member of the International Institute of Risk & Safety Management and of the Association for Project Safety, formerly known as the Association of Planning Supervisors.

He has written numerous articles, spoken at many conferences, seminars and road shows and has devised and contributed to audio programmes on various Health & Safety related matters, in particular the 1994 CDM regulations.

As a former member of CIRIA and CIC steering groups, he assisted in the production of the 1994 CDM guide handbook with case studies and an explanatory video, and he was the original technical editor of Croner’s “Management of Construction Safety”.

He has been project Planning Supervisor for a wide variety of major projects throughout the United Kingdom and is currently involved in providing strategic advice on all aspects of health and safety regulations as they affect the construction and design of buildings.

Speaker's Website: http://www.watts-international.com/

Duncan Preston

Duncan has had an involvement with RICS for many years, being a member of its Governing Council since 1997 and Chairman of its Valuation Faculty from its 2001 to 2004. He is currently a Vice President of RICS.

Duncan has worked with Jones Lang LaSalle, an international firm of real estate advisors, for 23 years and has had a leadership role with its valuation business since 1991.

Duncan has responsibilities for valuations for accounts, unit pricing, loan security and as an expert witness in the Courts.

In 1997 Duncan accepted the invitation to join the Board of Governors of the Cambridge International Land Institute and became chairman in 2005.

Speaker's Website: http://www.joneslanglasalle.co.uk/en-gb/