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A much-anticipated Supreme Court judgment has confirmed the position as to when directors owe obligations to consider the interests of creditors, dismissing an appeal against the Court of Appeal decision in this case: BTI v Sequana [2022] UKSC 25.

It was announced yesterday that Lord Reed will succeed Lady Hale as President of the Supreme Court when she retires on 10 January 2020

The Court of Appeal has overturned a finding of dishonest assistance against a law firm, establishing that professional negligence and poor practice—even when severe—do not automatically constitute dishonesty.

The second episode of Regulation in Focus, our podcast series of short, sharp insights into regulatory issues that matter to you,...

HSF Partner Simon Chapman KC, Senior Associate Charlie Morgan, Associate Olga Dementyeva and Trainee Solicitor Dan Huang have recently written an article for LexisPSL ..

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts lack the authority to issue a "universal" injunction on President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court has given a rare judgment on the court's approach to awarding damages for a "loss of a chance" in a professional negligence claim:

On 28 December 2018, the UK deposited its instrument of accession to the Hague Convention on Choice of Court Agreements 2005.

The English court has seen numerous mass tort claims brought by large groups of claimants against UK companies, often in the energy or extractive industries, relating to the activities of their subsidiaries overseas.

There has been no shortage of high-profile insolvencies in the crypto market in recent months across a range of market participants and geographies.

The Online Safety Act has received Royal Assent. The Act sets out a comprehensive legislative package which focuses on combating illegal content online and "lawful but harmful" content to children online...

The introduction of the GDPR on 25 May 2018 caused a widespread re-think about data protection and privacy rights.

A recent UK Parliamentary select committee report calls asbestos "one of the great workplace tragedies of modern times" and calls for all asbestos to be removed from public...

Biodiversity net gain (BNG) for most major town and country planning development came into effect earlier this week on Monday, 12 February 2024...

There is shared interest in ensuring that the decline of town centres is reversed and high-streets are regenerated.