Conkerton Memorial Lecture | Liverpool Law Society

Details

Speaker: The Honourable Mr. Justice Fancourt

Date: Thursday 18th March, 2027

Time: 5.30pm for 6.15pm

Venue:
Liverpool City Centre Venue
TBC

Event Code: S4995

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Description

We are pleased to announce that the 2027 Conkerton Memorial Lecture will be given by

Mr. Justice Fancourt

Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal

This biennial Lecture is arranged in memory of John & Mary Conkerton and by this Society’s Education & Charities Committee. The Conkertons were two hugely popular and well-respected law lecturers in the 1960s and 1970s who taught many of the university law students at the time. Read more about them here .

The Lecture is aimed at all legal professionals and current university law students and it is free to attend. Read more about this year’s speaker in the biography section below.

Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm with the lecture commencing at 6.15pm. There will be a Q&A session before the event concludes at 7.15pm.

Dress code is formal or business attire.

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Speaker Biographies

Mr Justice Timothy Fancourt was called to the Bar (Lincoln’s Inn) in 1987 and took Silk in 2003. He was appointed as a Recorder (Crime) in 2009, authorised to hear cases under section 9(1) of the Senior Courts Act 1981 in 2013, and appointed a High Court Judge assigned to the Chancery Division in 2018. He was also appointed as a Chair of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in 2018; served as President of the Lands Chamber between 2019 and 2022; and as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster and Supervising Judge of the Business and Property Courts on the Northern and North-Eastern Circuits between 2021 and 2025. He is currently the Chair of the High Court Judges’ Association. Sir Timothy Fancourt was appointed as President of the Lands Chamber of the Upper Tribunal on 1 August 2019. In June 2026, the Lady Chief Justice announced that His Majesty King Charles III has approved the appointment of Mr Justice Fancourt as a new Court of Appeal judge.