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The proposed reform of legal services has already had a long history, culminating in the recent publication of the draft Legal Services Bill. In this article we give a brief overview of the Bill and assess the early reaction to it.

Despite the apparently well established rule that when a court comes to construe a contract evidence of pre-contractual negotiations is inadmissible, commentators have suggested that the law in this area is in a state of flux.

The industry has now had several months to adjust to the new landscape for delay claims under EC Regulation 261 which was created by the European Court of Justice ruling in Sturgeon v Condor/Böck v Air France published on 19 November 2009.

Review of the Rotterdam Rules, the latest liability regime on the international carriage of cargo.

Extra-territorial securities claims in the US courts have been dealt a serious blow by "NAB v Morrison".

The Trade Union Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 ("the Act") provides a mechanism whereby an independent trade union can apply to the Central Arbitration Committee ("CAC"), provided that various conditions are satisfied, and force an employer to recognise the union for collective bargaining purposes.

Recently we reported on the implications of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 ("POCA") and its impact upon the solicitors’ profession in terms of the solicitor’s duty to report their suspicions of criminal activity to the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). In this article, we examine the provisions of the Money Laundering Regulations 2003 ("the Regulations") and their application to solic

The House of Lords stated that international maritime conventions should not be restricted to interpretation under notions of domestic law but rather construed by reference to broad principles of international mercantile usage and acceptance.

On 8 April 2010, the Bribery Act (the Act) received Royal Assent. Although it is unlikely to come into force before October, the Act represents a significant step towards creating a level playing field for international business, by taking an uncompromising stand against corruption both at home and abroad.

Following much press speculation and debate on the issue, the Government has announced that the Bribery Act 2010 will come into force on 1 July 2011.

Over the past decade, the English courts have discussed a variety of wordings used in the London Market (for example, "event", "occurrence", and "cause"). Coupled with the drive for contract certainty, it has never been more important to ensure that policy wordings are clear and unambiguous, and to ensure consistency of cover where there is reinsurance and retrocession cover.

We live in an increasingly litigious society; when things go wrong, invariably people look for someone to blame and more often than not they turn their attention to their solicitors and their professional indemnity insurers.

The long-awaited and much-discussed UK Bribery Act 2010 will come into effect starting July 2011. Patric McGonigal takes a look at the Act, its impact on insurers and the opportunities therein.

A decade on from Lord Woolf’s ground-breaking reforms implemented by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, there is no escaping the harsh fact that civil litigation is more expensive than ever.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs launched a consultation on greenhouse gas emissions reporting to meet the Government's obligation under the Climate Change Act 2008.

As all "primary" insurance intermediaries and direct-selling insurers should be aware, firms which wish to undertake regulated activities in respect of the sale of general insurance after 14 January 2005 will need to be authorised by the FSA to do so.