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This comprehensive guide examines the procedural framework of LCIA arbitration from commencement through enforcement, analyzing strategic decisions at each stage including tribunal formation, document production, interim relief mechanisms, and cost allocation.

Yesterday, after having agreed a plea deal with US authorities, Julian Assange left a US court in Saipan, in the Mariana Islands, a free man.

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion over 10 years to settle claims by 52 US state and territory attorneys general in the largest state consumer-protection settlement in American history outside tobacco. The settlement imposes binding child-safety obligations including time limits and age assurance, but leaves the core algorithmic feed unchanged and raises questions about whether this represents genuine accountability or a commercially managed outcome.

The Commercial Court ruled on a USD 29 million dispute over an LNG carrier charterparty's index-linked pricing formula, determining whether the "JKM-TTF spread" operated bidirectionally or only when JKM exceeded TTF. The decision examines how unprecedented market conditions—where European gas prices surged above Asian prices due to the Ukraine war—tested the contractual formula's application and whether rectification could remedy an alleged drafting oversight.

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In the recent case of Sim v Howat & McLaren [2011] CSOH 115, the Commercial Court of the Court of Session has undertaken a detailed examination of Partnership Law in Scotland, before ruling that a new partnership constituted by an incoming partner is liable for the prior business debts of the business.

The decision makes it very clear that the consequences for lawyers who breach their professional obligations by misusing AI are likely to be serious.

This is the first full trial judgment in a case that has considered whether related companies can be made liable for damage that occurs overseas...

During a criminal investigation, there will often be a vast amount of information obtained and considered by the police. When charges are brought, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) may disclose some of this information as evidence, serving it as witness statements and exhibits.

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Quadrant Chambers was delighted to host an International Arbitration Review of the Year.

The Court of Appeal has resolved two previously undetermined questions under the Hague/Hague-Visby Rules: whether proceedings brought solely to obtain security constitute a "suit" for time bar purposes, and what must be stated on a bill of lading for cargo to qualify as "deck cargo" excluded from the Rules' application. These issues arose in a dispute over alleged misdelivery of timber cargo aboard the TAIKOO BRILLIANCE.

Butcher J rejected the application on the basis that the provisions of CPR 8.7 are not imported into the procedure set out in CPR 62.18.

On 19 February 2021 the Supreme Court delivered a seminal judgment in the first appeal in a collision to come before the highest court since the mid 1970s

In a significant commercial dispute, Trafigura secured a final mandatory anti-suit injunction compelling SONARA to discontinue proceedings in Cameroon that sought to suspend payment under a Letter of Credit following a quality dispute. The case centered on whether SONARA's Limbe court proceedings fell within an exception to an exclusive English jurisdiction clause for interim relief, or whether they improperly attempted to subvert the agreed 'pay now, argue later' risk allocation mechanism.

This article was first published in International Corporate Rescue by Chase Cambria.

Antisuit injunctions have been keeping the Commercial Court Judges very busy for the last two years. They are frequently sought in particular to restrain cargo receivers from commencing proceedings against carriers under bills of lading in foreign jurisdictions.

This morning, 5 October 2020, Sir Nigel Teare handed down judgment in a three-handed collision dispute: Sakizaya Kalon & Osios David v Panamax Alexander [2020] EWHC 2604 (Admlty).

Football fans who recall the early days of the Premiership may recognise the names of one or more of the five claimants who feature in this case with what the judge described as a "lamentable procedural history" (at [37]).

In this Quadrant Basics in Ten, Tom Macey-Dare QC walks us through getting an anti-suit injunction.