This week the team has been thinking about some of the more esoteric questions raised by cross border work; whether the standard of proof is a procedural or substantive matter...

As we look forward to a four day weekend, with the concomitant three day working week it brings, the team at 1CL have been getting stuck in to some procedural questions; the burden of proof in cases involving allegations of...

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...

Russia has been much in the news lately, what with the new Kingsman film featuring Rasputin, surely the most resilient monk in history, and although we've yet to hold a...

Is the four day weekend the future? If you'd asked us that on Wednesday we'd almost certainly have said yes, but this morning we wonder whether we're more exhausted and emotionally drained than we were before we started.

This is a really exciting time in the history of ADR, which is increasingly at the front and centre of any litigation procedure.

The team deals with two cases on jurisdictional matters this week; inconsistent choice of jurisdiction clauses, and the operation of the Italian Torpedo.

Regular readers will recall that on 21st December last year no fewer than three courts handed down judgments involving airlines; this week it's the turn of horses (and horseplay) to come to the fore

The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken in response to it have revealed a number of fault lines in all areas of the law.

This week we look at two cases in which slip-ups in procedure had Consequences for unfortunate lawyers. Not the kind of thing that happens to our readers, of course, but still, it's always best...

This judgment of the High Court illustrates the challenges of pleading illegality as a defence, particularly when the impugned law is foreign.

This week the team has detected the early signs of a return to normality following the lockdowns that dogged 2020 and 2021.

The team seems to have done nothing but take days off lately; it's exhausting.

This week has brought a number of case management decisions which might lead those responding to claims to ask themselves whether they've entered The House In Nightmare Park.

The new year is not yet a month old and yet there have already been two significant judgments handed down since the last strains of Auld Lang Syne died out.

According to Oscar Wilde, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. The team finds this apercu encouraging, particularly when, as this week, we have spent quite a lot of time examining judgments many and varied.

This week the team has found time to consider two interesting cases on jurisdiction, which does seem to be a topic consuming a very large amount of court time, post-Brexit.

Can a Claimant be forced to sue parties (s)he has no desire to bring into proceedings? A strange question, perhaps, but one that troubled the Court of Appeal in Pawley v Whitecross Dental Care Limited

Some of you may remember the 2020 High Court decision in Transport Arendonk v Chief Constable of Essex Police [2020] EWHC 212 (QB), landing as it did at a time when there was a flurry of strike out cases exploring...

All travel litigation practitioners will be familiar with the concept of the ‘Italian Torpedo', but for those amongst us lucky enough never to have seen one approaching on their radar, a brief explanation is called for