The Master's Lecture 2003
On Wednesday 4 March 2003, members of the Company and guests gathered at Kings College, London to hear an excellent presentation by Kay Linnell.
Kay Linnell, FCA MBA FCIArb, is a Chartered Accountant and was previously a partner in a small practice in the Midlands and has also worked in government and industry. She is currently based in the London office of Morley Scott, Chartered Accountants, and responsible for developing dispute resolution, investigation, arbitration and conciliation as part of the forensic, expert and due diligence services offered by the practice.
Her experience covers arbitration, business management, consulting, tax in depth enquiries, tribunal representation and litigation. She serves on the publicity committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and is also a lecturer on their qualification courses. Kay has written several books published by Butterworth and Tolleys.
In her presentation, Kay asked the critical question "whether the arbitrator should become interested in the motives, intentions and purposes of parties who might withhold, design and deal with factual evidence in such a way as to ensure that the arbitrator is deceived".
She offered many examples to support her probing of those involved in the profession, including the fac that the London Police Fraud Squad estimated to cost of fraud to the UK economy at between £13 billion to £16 billion per annum. She also questioned Arbitrators as to their conformance with the Data Protection legislation in terms of their record keeping.
She concluded by encouraging Arbitraotros to consider their own arbitration practice to ensure that they are not open to any challenge under the various Data Protection, Money Laundering, Human Rights and related legislation currently in force in the United Kingdom and internationally.
The full version of Kay Linnell's speech (in PDF format) can be downloaded.
A copy of the slides she used can be viewed by clicking here (this will open another browser window - just close it to return to this page when you have finished viewing the slides).