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ArticleDisclosure Review Working Group Publishes Summary Of Stakeholder Survey ResultsThe Disclosure Review Working Group (DRWG), which is considering the potential simplification of disclosure rules for the Business and Property Courts, has today published a brief update on progress... United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationHerbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
ArticleFurther Developments Regarding Video Conference Hearings At The EPOWe recently reported that the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal has scheduled a hearing date of 28 May 2021 for the referral regarding the legality of video conference oral proceedings without the consent of one or more of the parties.United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationJ A Kemp
ArticleG1/21 Issues Order On Decision On Holding Oral Proceedings By Video ConferenceOn 16 July 2021, the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal issued the order of its decision of G1/21 which concerned the legality of enforcing oral proceedings by videoconference. United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationHLK
ArticleGain The Compensation You Deserve For An Accident On Holiday You Did Not CauseThe vast majority of people who go abroad on holiday return home with wonderful memories of either a country that is new to them or is a well-liked holiday spot.United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationGiambrone
ArticleLow Value Protocol Claims – Should Fixed Costs Or QOCS Apply To Appeals?Where personal injury claims are pursued within the Low Value Protocols and the first instance claim is subject to fixed costsUnited KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationDAC Beachcroft LLP
ArticlePJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov: Court Identifies Issues Prior To Pilot SchemePJSC Tatneft v Bogolyubov: Commercial Court judges orders list of issues for disclosure ahead of pilot schemeUnited KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationClyde & Co
ArticleSupreme Court Grants Permission In The CMA CGM LIBRA - John Russell QC & Benjamin CofferThe Supreme Court will hear the shipowners' appeal from the decision in Alize 1954 v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG (The "CMA CGM LIBRA") United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationQuadrant Chambers
ArticleTribunal Awards India First BIT Case Win, Dismissing Claims Of French InvestorAn UNCITRAL arbitral tribunal has reportedly dismissed a US$36 million claim by a French investor, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS ("LDA") ...United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationHerbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
ArticleTribunal Fee Refund Scheme Is Now OpenFurther to the Supreme Court decision in R (on the application of Unison) v. Lord Chancellor, which held tribunal fees were unlawful, the government has announced that the first claimants eligible for...United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationDentons
ArticleWhat Happens To Budgeted Costs If Phases Are Not Complete?A Regional Costs Judge has added to the growing body of conflicting decisions concerning the application of ‘good reason' when cases settle before trial.United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationDAC Beachcroft LLP
ArticleWhen Is Enough, Enough?The release of the BBC's most recent drama ‘Best Interests' takes an emotive look at the heart breaking and impossible choices that parents are sometimes forced to make.United KingdomLitigation, Mediation & ArbitrationLanyon Bowdler
ArticleAffordable Housing Contribution Reduced On AppealWe have previously reported on successful appeals by developers to reduce affordable housing contributions under the Section 106BC appeal mechanism. United KingdomReal Estate and ConstructionDentons
ArticleLandlords! Keep Your Contact Details Up To Date!We have blogged on a number of occasions about the pitfalls befalling tenants when it comes to the exercise of break options.United KingdomReal Estate and ConstructionReed Smith (Worldwide)
ArticleWas The Seller Ready, Able And Willing?In Oakley v Harper McKay Developments the High Court held that a Seller of an office block, to be converted into flats ...United KingdomReal Estate and ConstructionHewitsons LLP
ArticleUK Knowledge Collection | Courts' Powers To Depart From Precedent, Contingent Workforce Rules, And Regulating Online Financial PromotionsThe new UK government will likely introduce significant changes in employment rules, while the judiciary gains powers to deviate from EU case law; FCA targets "finfluencers" for financial promotions compliance.United KingdomStrategyOsborne Clarke LLP
ArticleECJ Ruling On Collective Redundancy ConsultationThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has today confirmed in the 'Woolworths' case that, when counting the number of redundant employees across multiple sites for the purposes of collective redundancy consultation, each of the employer's establishments (in this case shops) must be looked at separately.European UnionEmployment and HRWithers LLP
ArticleEqualisation Of Retirement Ages: Safeway Loses The Argument On BackdatingMany schemes are still grappling with the issue of the equalisation of retirement ages between men and women. European UnionEmployment and HRNabarro LLP
ArticleMixing Business With Pleasure – Subsequent Dismissal Not A Breach Of Human RightsThe applicant ("A") brought proceedings against his employer in the European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") after being dismissed for sending personal messages during working hours using the employer's computer.European UnionEmployment and HRW Legal