In the following case the commercial court had to consider (amongst other things) whether a force majeure clause was triggered by a dramatic change in market conditions.

In the following case the court had to address whether the court had the power to grant an injunction restraining a party from pursuing a referral to adjudication.

On 10 May 2010, the Office of Fair Trading’s (OFT) high profile criminal prosecution of four current or former British Airways executives for price-fixing (under the "cartel offence") unexpectedly collapsed when the OFT decided not to offer any evidence because of concerns that it might be unfair to continue the proceedings following the discovery of a significant amount of new evidence after the trial had begun.

The Office of Insurance Commission, under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance (OIC) regulates insurers, brokers and agents.

In this article we look at key regulatory topics for 2025 that will have a significant impact on institutions operating in the UK financial services space.

On 19 January 2011 the English Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal in Enron Coal Services Ltd v English Welsh & Scottish Railway Ltd1 - the first damages action to have gone to trial in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).

The Agency Workers Regulations (the Regulations) were published by the Government on 21 January 2010. The intention is that they will come into force on 1 October 2011. The Regulations provide all agency workers with the right to equal treatment with their directly recruited colleagues after 12 weeks in a given job.

The following decision is notable for the robust judgment of Mr Justice Coulson when considering whether to order a sale of property owned by a judgment debtor.

In recent years companies have increased their use of agency workers : workers supplied by employment agencies to the client "end user" to provide work on a temporary basis. Recent cases however have cast doubt on the question : who is the employer in this relationship?