How many levels of appeal are there? How long does it generally take until a challenge is decided at each level? Approximately what costs are incurred at each level? How are costs apportioned among the parties?

This week's edition of the Roundup concerns two cases involving costs agreements which parties may subsequently have come to regret: the decisions in Doyle v M&D Foundations...

During a public hearing on February 26, the California Air Resources Board unanimously voted to approve regulations implementing Senate Bill 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) and Senate Bill 261 (the Climate-related Financial Risk Act).

An Alert discussing developments relating to California climate disclosure laws (discussed below) was published on December 10.

On May 29, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay of a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging Texas’ anti-ESG law, Senate Bill 13 (“SB 13”), allowing the law to remain in effect pending appeal.

On June 24, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced a three-month delay of the initial reporting deadline under SB 253 (the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act) requiring in-scope entities to report Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relating to 2025.

This article, authored by international secondee Pascal Urban from Gleiss Lutz, was first published in the January 2025 issue of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.

CARB Pauses Mandatory SB 261 Reporting Following the Ninth Circuit's Grant of Plaintiff's Preliminary Injunction and Issues Proposed Regulations.

Virtual worlds now defy geographical limitations and companies are invited to connect with markets in creative new ways, leading to legal questions and issues.

自2014年克里米亚事件西方启动对俄制裁，在俄罗斯在乌克兰开展“特别军事行动（SMO）”后，以欧盟、美国为首的西方国家对俄罗斯能源领域的制裁

The regular Construction Act Review concentrates on the use of injunctions in conjunction with adjudication in three main situations: enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision, freezing orders and restraint of continuation of an invalid adjudication. Particular attention is given to Workplace Technologies v E. Squared (Paul Darling QC).

Is your country a contracting state to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards? Since when has the Convention been in force?