The role of courts at the seat of arbitration
Alternative dispute resolution.
Business interruption cases and the Financial Ombudsman Service
Businesses should not be so hasty to throw themselves into the risks, stresses and costs of litigation.
Okpabi – a ‘real issue to be tried’
Personal injury.
Break clauses: too much and not enough
Commercial property.
Unified Patent Court put on hold – again
Intellectual property.
DIFC Data Protection Law No. 5
Data protection.
Cabbies win road curbs challenge
Local government.
Charity disputes and ADR
Civil procedure.
Clarity on Quincecare duty for banks
Commercial law.
How Brexit changes the status of advice
Legal privilege.
A ‘brave new world’ for UK extradition law?
The UK extradition landscape has changed - although not as much as one might think.
Housing allocation and Catch-22
Local government.
Principle of finality in litigation
Civil procedure.
Criminal law update
Credit for Guilty Plea, allocation of youths, identification by social media and sentencing.
Supreme Court lowers the bar
Collective actions.
Governance failures at Croydon Council
Local government.
Judicial clarity on anonymity orders
Civil procedure.
Information commissioner gets busy with fines
Data protection.
Suicide and the burden of proof
Coronial law.
Working from home – future perfect?
Local government.
Costs and proceedings
Family.
Claim for special accommodation
Personal injury.
Regulatory developments on heat networks
Environmental law.
Enforcing dispute resolution clauses
Civil procedure.
Assessing the Home Office’s pandemic response
Immigration.
Non-binary/gender fluid claimants
Employment tribunal extends scope of Equality Act provisions.
The ins and outs of local authority lockdowns
England has been here before, of course – but worse.
Restrictions on Norwich Pharmacal orders
Private prosecutions.
Fiduciary obligations of experts
Arbitration.
Law Commission’s consultation on marriage reforms
Much needed change is now on the horizon and it can’t come soon enough.
Criminal law roundup
Disclosure, dishonesty, remands into custody and low-value shop theft.
Personal data transfer and human rights
Data protection.
Local lockdowns
Local authority powers to impose restrictions.
Limitation, consent and vicarious liability
Personal injury.
Government announces independent review of judicial review
On 31 July 2020 the Government launched an independent review to examine whether there is a need to reform the judicial review process in the UK.
Model Code of Conduct consultation
Local government.
Relationships with counsel and chambers
Judicial bias.
California Consumer Privacy Act
Data protection.
Royal Court confirms power to freeze assets outside Jersey
Latest chapter of the long-running Tantular litigation.
Penalised for parking on your own land
Funny thing, the law. You would not, for instance, think you could get a ticket for parking on your own land. But you can.
Service charges and careful drafting
Some cases are interesting because the facts are unusual; others are interesting because the facts are ubiquitous.
Overcoming barriers to secured transactions reform
The Secured Transactions Code.
Magic of the machine: can artificial intelligence invent?
The ways innovation is achieved will change, and patent and copyright law will require reform to address this.
Reasonable requirement for expert evidence
Civil procedure.
Implied duty of good faith in contractual disputes
TAQA v RockRose.
An analysis of the Sentencing Code
Code will provide single reference point for law on sentencing and will apply to all offenders convicted of an offence after 1 October 2020.
Coronavirus and police drone use
Data protection.
When being stuck indoors becomes a nuisance
Spending time at home can be far from peaceful, due to the activities of neighbours or those working close by.