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A glance around the business class lounge at any airport lounge will bring you face to face with numerous varieties of that modern day creature, "The Mobile Worker". Logging in the available workstations, checking email on their BlackBerries, or using cell phones to speak with their assistant at the home office, these travelers are the modern incarnation of the "Global Economic Elite" ("GEE").

For newly separated families, navigating parenting arrangements around Christmas can cause unnecessary conflict.

Only where an executor is an accountant, a solicitor or a trustee company is it clear that there will be remuneration.

These are some frequently asked questions regarding Wills, Powers of Attorney and Enduring Guardianships.

Many PI claims arise from problems relating to file notes, the source of instructions and accepting client assurances.

Apotex had started litigation against the Government, claiming damages due to refusal or delay in approving drug submissions.

In 2016, the Federal Court broke with its own precedents and other Canadian courts and held that parties to a commercial transaction who shared a privileged document waived privilege ...

Privilege in Canada has, over the last 20 years, been raised by the Canadian courts to quasi-constitutional status.

French prosecutors have charged Sanofi, the pharmaceutical manufacturers of Sodium Valproate, marketed in France as Depakine, with manslaughter after the deaths of four babies whose mothers took the drug.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) recently published a final version of its guidance for in-house solicitors. Expected for a long time...

The requirement to have lawyers on both sides on divorce has long been the source of frustration for many clients. The introduction of Resolution Together (RT) in 2022...

In England and Wales, a person making a will must be able to fully understand what they are doing at that time. Legally, this called having ‘testamentary capacity'. If a person did not have testamentary capacity...

The claimant made an offer to the defendants in which it was stated that "the offer will be open for 21 days from the date of this letter". The letter was headed "Offer to Settle under CPR Part 36" and made various other references to Part 36.

Uncertainty over the future of Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) and After the Event (ATE) insurance to fund litigation continues with the present government’s consultation on the civil litigation costs review undertaken by Lord Justice Jackson.

The Court of Appeal has delivered a landmark ruling on abuse of process, upholding findings that claimants engaged in unlawful conduct by covertly obtaining privileged litigation material from the defendants' solicitor through deception. The judgment addresses whether such conduct warrants striking out applications and discharging freezing orders worth hundreds of millions of dollars in a complex fraud case involving stock lending transactions.

The facility agreement is finally agreed. The execution versions of the ancillary documents have been deftly zipped and are ready for email circulation to the wider team.