SFO’s approach to deferred prosecution agreements
Serious Fraud Office’s latest agreement comes at a time of increased anxiety among corporates and individuals about its use of DPAs.
Enforcing arbitral awards against foreign states
Civil procedure.
What is a highway?
Local government latest.
Direct pay offer was not ‘unlawful inducement’
Latest in employment law.
Precedents and guidelines
Criminal law latest.
Clarity on restrictive covenants?
Employment
Free speech victory or charter for higher costs?
The Supreme Court’s recent clarification of the ‘serious harm’ threshold for defamation claims has been welcomed by newspapers as a victory for free speech.
Party consent and early neutral evaluation
Civil procedure
Governance under the spotlight
Local government latest.
Did council owe claimants a duty of care?
Latest in child protection.
British MPs, drugs and the US
Can a foreign national travel to the US following an admission of prior drug use under the country’s immigration law?
SFO informants: more questions than answers
White-collar crime
‘Employing’ freelance lawyers
Latest in employment law
Valuing assets on divorce
Latest in family law.
Guidance on libel for the social media age
Latest in media law.
Council makes a mess of Portage
Local government latest.
Crimea: the importance of investor-state arbitration
Investor-state arbitration can provide a mechanism for foreign investors as a neutral means of recourse against abusive conduct by a host state.
Protecting IP rights pre- and post-Brexit
Intellectual property
Modern slavery, stalking and disclosure
The latest in criminal law.
Alleged judicial bias in Uber case
Civil procedure
Complications of practical completion
Commercial property.
The law on mistake
Wills and probate
Delegated school budgets and fiduciary duty
Local government
Up-skirting, PET forms and adjournments
Criminal law
Towards clarity on reporting obligations
Regulation and compliance
Forum shopping and artifice in fraud proceedings
Do not present an artificially constructed case to try and forum shop in the London courts.
Judicial discretion on expert evidence
Civil procedure
Time to rethink DPAs after Tesco failures
White-collar crime
Maintaining ethical standards
Local government
What we know about a ‘plan B’ Brexit
Brexit latest on immigration.
Commercial surrogacy expenses
Clinical negligence
The status of allotments
Charity and trust law
Staying proceedings and service of claim forms
Civil procedure
Town hall services in tough times
How to allocate town hall services fairly amid austerity
Fraud and the sufficient connection test
Will Overseas Production Orders shake up international fraud investigations in 2019?
Terrorism funding offences
Is it right to criminalise those who unintentionally fund terrorism?
Amenability to judicial review
Public and regulatory
How the law protects responsible journalism
The Court of Appeal was right to back public interest journalism.
Maintenance pending suit
Family law
Duty of care at A&E
Personal injury
Strengthening investigative powers
Proceeds of crime
When property law and consumer legislation collide
Can consumer rights laws back up tenants seeking lease extensions from landlords? The question divided the Court of Appeal.
Amendments of statements of case
Civil procedure
Town hall byelaws
Local government
Legislative changes
Criminal
Tribunal reform recommendations
Employment
Multilateral interchange fees
Competition law
ADR dialogue and costs
Dispute resolution
