The recent decision of Mr. Justice Simon in Wasa International Insurance Company Limited v. Lexington Insurance Company Limited and others raises a number of interesting issues about the interrelationship of a facultative reinsurance contract and the original insurance contract when they are governed by different systems of law.

We live in a world today in which the foreign policy agenda of one country can insert itself at any moment into the business dealings of companies, persons, and governments across the globe.

This article considers whether a law introduced in the Middle Ages to curb the power of influential English barons has any application, half a millennium later, to a domestic or international arbitration held in a common law-based jurisdiction.

The purpose of this talk is to consider whether the conditions of satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 apply to Norwegian Saleform and other contracts for the sale of second-hand tonnage and if so what is their effect.

Monthly round-up of recent Construction industry updates.

We are delighted to announce the publication of the second edition of International Commercial Arbitration (2014 Kluwer Law International) by Gary Born, Chair of the International Arbitration Practice Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP and the world's leading authority on international arbitration and litigation.

The State of Delaware has been referred to as “the incorporation capital of the world.”1 It promotes itself as approaching corporate matters in an innovative fashion.

The last ten years have seen some very high profile insolvencies in the international energy business.

The Shorter Trials Scheme (ST") is one of a raft of measures designed to improve the customer experience of civil justice.

An event in London organised by Withers addressed third-party funding of international arbitration in the wake of the recommendations in the ICCA-Queen Mary report.

Camden sought to challenge the adjudicator’s jurisdiction on the ground that he had been improperly appointed by RIBA. Makers had contacted RIBA to request the appointment of the adjudicator actually appointed.