PROFESSOR
NORMAN PALMER MA,
BCL(Oxon)
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Norman
Palmer is Professor of Commercial Law
at University College London, a practising barrister at Two Field Court
Grays Inn, where he was Head of Chambers from 1992 to 1999 and a CEDR
accredited
mediator. He lectures and practices in the fields of art
transactions,
personal property, cross-border claims, dispute resolution and general
common law. He has written and edited several books in these
fields,
including Interests in Goods (co-authored and edited, 1998), The
Recovery
of Stolen Art (co-authored and edited, 1998), Art Loans (1997, Bailment
(2nd ed, 1991), and the titles on ‘Libraries and Scientific and other
Cultural
Institutions’ in Halsbury’s Laws of England (co-edited, 4th ed,
reissue,
1997), vol 28(1). His book on Museums and the Holocaust:
Law,
Principles and Practice will be published by the Institute of Art and
Law
in July 2000. He has been the editor in chief of Art, Antiquity
and
Law since its foundation in 1996 and was the editor of the
International
Journal of Cultural Property from 1992 to 1995. He is the
Academic
Advisor to the Institute of Art and Law and a member of the Treasure
Valuation
Committee, the Spoliation Advisory Panel, the Standing Conference on
Portable
Antiquities and the Portable Antiquities Working Group. In May
2000
he was appointed chairman of the ministerial Advisory Panel on Illicit
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HETTY
GLEAVE - LLB LLM
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Hetty
Gleave is a partner in the litigation department at Hunters Solicitors
in
London. She holds an LLM from
University College London, part of her studies including the law of
cultural
properties. She has lectured LLM students
at UCL on copyright issues, artists’ moral rights, British export laws
and
alternative dispute resolution and also foundation art law students at
the
Sotherby’s Institute for the Institute of Art & Law.
Articles include conference reports for the
Institute of Art & Law and a training module for the Institute of
International Treaties & Conventions (co- author).
She was a member of the Parliamentary
Working Group on Human Remains which was chaired by Professor Palmer
and which
reported in November 2003. She is an
accredited CEDR mediator and has been involved in several large
commercial
mediations.
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MARGARET
HATTON LLB
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Margaret
Hatton is a
solicitor at
the Westminster
firm of Radcliffes. She specialises in leasehold reform and
general
commercial property work. She previously worked for City firms
Nicholson
Graham & Jones and Hill Taylor Dickinson. She has had a close
association with the Institute of Art and Law since 1994. |
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IAN SNAITH
BA(Keele)
MA(Manchester)
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Ian Snaith is
Senior
Lecturer and
Nelsons Fellow in Law at the University of Leicester, and works as a
consultant
solicitor with Cobbetts, Solicitors, Manchester. He lectures and
practices in the fields of Company and Commercial Law, Co-operatives and
Mutuals and national and international measures to combat organised
crime.
He has written articles and papers on the particular problems raised by
money laundering for the art world and on wider European
developments in
that field. He has also authored books on Co-operatives, Industrial and
Provident Society Law, and Corporate Insolvency. He is a Fellow of the
Society for Advanced Legal Studies, and, in recent years, has worked
regularly
with the Institute of Art and Law.
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PAUL BRITTON - BA (Hons) MRICS
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Paul Britton is Fine Art Surveyor for
the Cunningham Lindsey group. He holds a degree in Fine Arts Valuation
and his undergraduate dissertation considered the use of due diligence
within the UK art market. He is a member of the Arts & Antiques
Faculty board of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and
currently acts a chairman of the faculty’s Ethics & Standards
committee. He has held positions with various sectors of the art
market including the valuation department of a leading London auction
house. He has been a member of the Institute of Art and Law since its'
foundation and is currently studying for the IAL Foundation Certificate
in Art Law.
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RICHARD
ELLIS
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Richard
Ellis is an art risk consultant and investigator
with over 30 years investigative experience. A career detective with
the
Metropolitan Police he established the Art and Antiques Squad at New
Scotland
Yard in 1989, and ran the unit until his retirement from the police in
1999. As
the senior investigating officer he was responsible for the recovery of
cultural property stolen in many countries including Egypt, China,
Norway and
Iraq and he has worked internationally in many different jurisdictions.
After
retiring from the police he spent a year with
Christie’s as general manager of their Fine Art Security Services
before
becoming managing director of Trace, running the international database
for
stolen art and antiques together with Trace magazine. A member of
the Council for the Prevention of Art
Theft, he initiated the council’s Code Of Due Diligence and worked
closely with
the trade on its introduction. He has attended a number of UNESCO
workshops as
a member of their international panel of experts advising on the
protection of
cultural heritage and has lectured extensively on the international
trade in
stolen art, antiques and cultural property.
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ROSS LEE
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Ross is a
practising Barrister at York Chambers
in York and Newcastle. He practises in
the fields of civil law, including professional negligence, education
and land
disputes and family law and is on the editorial board of Art Antiquity
&
Law published by the Institute of Art & Law. He is a CEDR
accredited
mediator and has five years experience of conducting commercial
mediation. Recent mediations include an
employment
dispute between a large public body and a senior executives with
Solicitors and
Barristers on both sides, which was successfully mediated in one day. |
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