Past Events

Annual Westminster Conference

Diagnosing Regulatory Pathologies

11 May 2022

We are please to announce that our Annual Westminster Conference will be held on Wednesday the 11th of May at One Great George Street.

In what promises to be a year of re-evaluations of regulatory systems we will seeking a closer integration of the programme than usual, not only between the …

Annual Westminster Conference

The new social licence to operate - is this needed and what could it be?

2 May 2019

Our Westminster Conference brought these themes together to examine the central question of the new social licence to operate. The conference included contributions from international experience as well as policy makers, regulated companies and advisors across the utility sector

Annual Westminster Conference

Regulatory Pathologies: Diagnosis and Remediation

2 May 2018

Based on accumulated knowledge and experience, the conference examined the features of a number of the major pathologies that can have adverse effects on the functioning of regulatory processes, including the signs, causes, and potential means of remediation of recurring malfunctions.

Annual Westminster Conference

Too busy to think

3 May 2017

The general theme of the day was an examination of the ways in which the conduct of public policy can become disordered over time.

Annual Westminster Conference

Issues in market and regulatory governance

27 April 2016

The gathering took a broad look at market and regulatory governance issues, and the focus was on the institutional arrangements for the making of relevant decisions rather than on any particular decisions that have or might be taken.

Annual Westminster Conference

Regulation of markets and networks in the UK: the state of play in a period of economic and political insecurity

23 April 2015

Annual Westminster Conference

Coherence and stability in regulatory practice

25 April 2014

The 2014 Westminster conference provided an opportunity for a sustained examination of the related challenges of securing coherence and stability in the conduct of regulatory policy, from economic, legal and political perspectives.

Annual Westminster Conference

The future of independent regulation

26 April 2013

This one day conference in London examined the performance of independent regulatory agencies and assessing the factors that appear to have significant effects on regulatory conduct, in order to draw out implications for the future evolution of independent regulation.

Annual Westminster Conference

The role of competition in public policy

8 March 2010

In partnership with the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy UEA and sponsored by Hogan Lovells and Oxera.