Mar 23, 2023 WANdisco is dancing around to reassure shareholders, but are its investors now thinking about Autonomy? By Katie Philipson The Times reported a couple of weeks ago on the investigation being undertaken into potential fraud that has thrown technology group...
Mar 14, 2023 Space the final jurisdictional frontier By Laura Beagrie Jurisdictional issues in space law are not just an issue for intellectual property ownership rights. It is great news that the...
Mar 10, 2023 Reached an agreement? Put it in writing or risk not being able to prove it. By Robert Scudamore Reached an agreement? Don’t forget to put it in writing or risk not being able to prove it later. Contracts don’t necessarily have to be...
Mar 02, 2023 UK government's response to the consultation on Singapore Convention on Mediation By Michael Frisby The government's announcement on 2 March 2023 that it will seek to join the Singapore Convention on Mediation is welcome news. Mediation...
Feb 20, 2023 ClientEarth bring ESG claim against the Financial Conduct Authority By Elizabeth Butler ClientEarth, an environmental charity, have recently issued a judicial review claim in the High Court against the FCA, the UK’s financial...
Jan 20, 2023 Treading a fine line? using unlawfully obtained evidence in civil litigation By Michael Stocks It may have come as a surprise to many who read this article in The Times that unlawfully obtained material (e.g. via hacking) can be...
Dec 01, 2022 Family Court backlog reaches new high By Sean Hilton The most recent figures from HMCTS have revealed a backlog of 110,000 family law cases in the court system. A recent article in the Law...
Oct 13, 2022 You can run but you can't hide: Developments on personal service By Kirsty Manley For as long as the Court rules have required claims to be served on a defendant, defendants have tried to evade service so that they...
Oct 13, 2022 Ben & Jerry’s bring ESG claim against Unilever for alleged breach of 22-year-old acquisition agreement By Elizabeth Butler Ben & Jerry’s was founded by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in Vermont in 1978. As the ice cream brand evolved from a small start-up to a...
Oct 07, 2022 Arbitration Act review: 9 - Minor reforms By Lorna Sleave Over the past two weeks, we have been reviewing the key conclusions of the Law Commission’s review of the Arbitration Act 1996. Our...
Oct 06, 2022 Arbitration Act review: 8 – Appeal on a point of law By Michael Stocks Following on from our previous commentaries on the Law Commission’s Consultation Paper (CP) summarising its review of the Arbitration Act...
Oct 06, 2022 Arbitration Act review: 7 – challenging the tribunal’s jurisdiction – section 67 By Catherine Penny This is another one in our series looking at the Law Commission’s review of the Arbitration Act 1996. Here, we are talking about section...