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Artificial intelligence: Growing litigation risk Businesses are increasingly integrating AI into their working practices - with McKinsey recently reporting that 65% of the respondents to their “State of AI” survey are now regularly using generative AI in their organisations, nearly doubling the...
Global Arbitration Review's Guide to Climate Change and Related Disputes - 1st edition Global Arbitration Review’s Guide to Climate Change and Related Disputes – First Edition provides an overview of the types of climate-related issues that have arisen at investor-state and commercial level in recent years. It draws on the experience of...
Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide – Litigation 2025 – England & Wales: Law and Practice The 2025 Litigation Global Practice Guide provides the latest legal information on litigation funding, initiating a lawsuit, pre-trial proceedings, discovery, injunctive relief, trials and hearings, settlement, damages and judgment, appeals, costs, and...
Companies can claim privilege against their shareholders In a landmark judgment, the Commercial Court has decided that a company’s shareholders have no freestanding entitlement to see the company’s privileged documents. The decision, which revisits what many considered a long-established rule of English law,...
FOS Reform: FCA call for input Financial services firms have been dealing with a deluge of near-identical customer complaints about single issues, driven largely by claims management companies and claimant-side law firms (CMCs) effectively seeking to use the Financial Ombudsman Service...
Countdown to Compliance - Failure to Prevent Fraud Guidance Released The UK government has released its long-awaited Guidance on the new corporate offence of failure to prevent fraud, outlining the key elements of the offence and offering practical advice on designing and implementing reasonable fraud prevention procedures...
In-Depth: Banking Litigation – 8th edition – United Kingdom chapter The eighth edition of In-Depth: Banking Litigation, provides a practical overview of the litigation landscape and framework for banking disputes in major jurisdictions worldwide. Focusing on recent developments and trends, it examines a wide range of...
In-Depth: Banking Litigation – 8th edition – Hong Kong chapter The eighth edition of In-Depth: Banking Litigation, edited by Disputes and Investigations partner Jonathan Clark, provides a practical overview of the litigation landscape and framework for banking disputes in major jurisdictions worldwide. Focusing on...
Disputes Briefcase A regular digest of key developments in litigation and arbitration, produced by members of our market-leading disputes team.
UK Supreme Court confirms power to grant anti-suit injunctions in support of foreign-seated arbitration agreements The UK Supreme Court in UniCredit Bank v RusChemAlliance has issued its reasons for its unanimous decision in April to uphold an anti-suit injunction granted by the Court of Appeal requiring a party to cease Russian court proceedings brought in breach of...
First English judgment on LIBOR transition - Standard Chartered PLC v Guaranty Nominees Ltd & others On 15 October 2024, the High Court handed down its judgment in Standard Chartered PLC v Guaranty Nominees Ltd & others, a case under the Financial Markets Test Case Scheme relating to the transition from LIBOR to alternative benchmark rates. We...
Chambers and Partners Global Practice Guide – International Arbitration 2024 – England & Wales: Law and Practice The International Arbitration 2024 guide provides the latest legal information on global arbitration practice and trends across over 60 jurisdictions, including on governing legislation, arbitral tribunals, challenges to jurisdiction, preliminary and...
Disputes Briefcase A regular digest of key developments in litigation and arbitration, produced by members of our market-leading disputes team.
Hague Judgments Convention: UK joins new regime to simplify cross-border enforcements of judgments The UK has ratified the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention. When it comes into force for the UK next July, it will make it significantly easier to enforce a wide range of English court judgments in 28 countries – including all bar one of the EU’s member...
No requirement to accept non-contractual performance to overcome force majeure event: RTI v MUR Shipping The UK Supreme Court has held that the requirement on a non-defaulting party to use ‘reasonable endeavours’ to overcome a force majeure event does not require the non-defaulting party to accept an offer of non-contractual performance absent clear...