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Contracting parties may believe that the inclusion of an exclusive jurisdiction clause in their agreement binds them to conduct any subsequent contractual disputes in the courts of the country they have specified. However, two recent decisions indicate that, at least in Europe, this may no longer be the case. Now read on...

A look at the exclusive jurisdiction clauses in GAFTA arbitration.

For our eighth installment in the FFF Sovereign Immunity Series, we consider the doctrine of sovereign immunity in England & Wales.

When an international business transaction goes bad because goods or services are not paid for or monies lent are not repaid, creditors can often be left with a shortfall when they discover that the only assets the debtor owns are outside their local jurisdiction where such assets, which could satisfy a judgment, may be difficult to attack or are at risk of dissipating quickly without a trace (since there may be no interim freezing of assets

The Committee on Standards in Public Life (the "Committee") has published a report on artificial intelligence ("AI") and its impact on public standards following the Committee's review

Kingdom of Spain (Appellant) v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.À.R.L. and another (Respondents); Republic of Zimbabwe (Appellant) v Border Timbers Ltd and another (Respondents) [2026] UKSC 9, 4 March 2026...

Privilege in competition law in and within the EU has always been a complex matter, not least because the issue of defining how wide the scope of privilege is and to which document privilege attaches is in itself complex. In addition, a further layer of complexity is added by the different rules which apply to privilege at an EU level and at a national level for each of the 25 EU member states.

The UK Supreme Court has ruled on whether sovereign states can invoke immunity to resist enforcement of adverse ICSID arbitration awards in English courts. Spain and Zimbabwe challenged the registration...

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has imposed total fines of £2.3 million on 13 roofing contractors for colluding to fix prices for car park and flat roofing surfacing contracts in England and Scotland. This is the fifth set of fines to be levied by the OFT in the roofing sector in the past two years.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase in staycations and this means many people are making use of caravans, campervans and motorhomes for their holidays

Can a foreign court's decision on state immunity prevent a sovereign state from raising jurisdictional objections in English enforcement proceedings? This judgment examines the limits of issue estoppel when Swiss court rulings are invoked in English arbitration enforcement cases, clarifying when previous determinations bind parties in subsequent litigation.

Following the deposit by France of the instrument of ratification with the German Ministry of Justice on 29 January, the London Agreement entered into force on 1 May 2008.

Litigation funding rules in England and Wales changed radically on 1 April 2013, enabling lawyers now to share to a greater extent than ever before the costs risk of litigation with their clients.