The House of Lords has upheld the Court of Appeal's decision to strike out a claim against auditors for failing to detect a fraud committed by the claimant company.

The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill, enacted on May 24, 2024, establishes a new regulatory framework for digital markets, reforms UK competition law, and enhances the Competition and Markets Authority's powers, including imposing direct fines for consumer protection violations.

The right to request time off for training entitles employees to apply for time off without pay to participate in training.

There has been heated and passionate debate in academic circles and industry publications about the pros and cons of the Rotterdam Rules.

Tier 2 of the points based system, making new provision for skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area with a UK job offer, including intra-company transferees, was implemented replacing the work permit system.

Conversion to LLP status is something that is growing in popularity and we are working with several brokers keen to investigate the advantages it may confer.

One of today's paradoxes is how semi-literate, part-time fishermen, from a country with the worst humanitarian conditions in the world, are able to outwit powerful navies, and hijack vessels and create havoc for commercial shipping.

Jackson LJ’s final report on costs in civil litigation was published on 15 January 2010. The Report is extensive and HFW’s specialist costs department will be circulating a more detailed client briefing shortly.

On 30 July 2009 the House of Lords unanimously allowed the appeals of Wasa and AGF in the above matter, overturning the decision of the Court of Appeal.

Construction contracts form the foundation of every project, but they rarely tell the whole story. When disputes arise, parties often discover that some of their most powerful remedies lie not in the express terms they negotiated, but in broader principles of tort, equity, restitution, and statute that operate independently of—or alongside—the written agreement.

Two things are well known about Somalia from recent newspaper reports, magazine articles, Internet pages, and radio and television broadcasts.

In this issue: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; Market developments; HFW Publications and events.

Holman Fenwick Willan is, as many of you will know, a law firm having close connections with the shipping industry: it was due to a 'chance encounter' while representing a Greek shipowner borrower 20 years ago that I met Arun Chauhan, then at the London branch of Fidelity Bank NA, one of whose specialist areas was the financing of ships being purchased for onward sale for demolition on the Indian sub continent.