12/18/2020 12:54:36 PM Business crime extradition round-up By Kamila Kwincinska Despite COVID, it has been a busy year for England's extradition courts with a flurry of high-profile requests, ranging from espionage to...
11/24/2020 12:12:10 PM Sierra Leone adopts New York Convention on enforcement of international arbitration awards By Arish Bharucha One of the most attractive features of international arbitration, as a dispute resolution mechanism, is that the awards issued by...
11/10/2020 3:20:21 PM Cryptoassets as Property – Where are we now? A Short Update By Rebecca Hume As cryptoassets continue to be used and exchanged, their ownership inevitably continues to be the subject of litigation in the Courts. ...
10/9/2020 12:00:00 AM UK Supreme Court clarifies test for law governing arbitration agreements By Arish Bharucha The UK Supreme Court has today handed down its judgment in the case of Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi AS v Chubb Russia Investments Limited, a...
9/25/2020 12:00:00 AM Delaying the inevitable? Businesses struggling to stay afloat thrown a further lifeline by the Government By Howard Kennedy Temporary measures to protect businesses from the economic fallout of Covid-19 will be extended, the government has announced: companies...
9/16/2020 12:00:00 AM Moratorium on forfeiture of business tenancies in England extended to 31 December 2020 By Howard Kennedy Extension of moratorium to 31 December 2020 On 16 September 2020, the UK government announced that it is to extend the moratorium on...
9/15/2020 12:00:00 AM Boost for policyholders as Court finds largely in favour of FCA in business interruption insurance test case By Robyn Watson Many policyholders hit hard by the impact of COVID-19 will be pleased to hear that the High Court has found in favour of the FCA on the...
9/10/2020 3:11:31 PM Moratorium on forfeiture of business tenancies in Wales extended to 31 December 2020 By Howard Kennedy On 9 September 2020, the Welsh government extended the moratorium on forfeiture of business tenancies in Wales to 31 December 2020, under...
9/10/2020 12:00:00 AM Ten year lease term with breaks awarded for telecoms renewal By Howard Kennedy On 21 August 2020, a judge made the first ruling on the length of an "old code" term on the statutory renewal of an telecoms mast lease....
9/6/2020 12:00:00 AM English Commercial Court allows Nigeria to challenge P&ID award – and finds "strong case" of corruption and fraud By Arish Bharucha Summary 4 September 2020: Sir Ross Cranston, sitting in the Commercial Court in London, has made an extraordinary order granting...
8/6/2020 12:00:00 AM Strangled at birth? The Ordinary Course of Business exception in freezing orders and the discretion to permit other transactions By Arish Bharucha A recent Court of Appeal ("CoA") case, Organic Grape Spirit Ltd v Nueva IQT S.L. [2020] EWCA Civ 999, in which Howard Kennedy acted for...
7/23/2020 1:27:04 PM Extradition in a post-Brexit world By Kamila Kwincinska Since 2004, the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) has operated to simplify the cross-border surrender of suspects and convicted individuals–...