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A judgment handed down by the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) provides some important analysis of the so-called Quincecare duty of care: PT Asuransi Tugu Pratama Indonesia TBK [...]

Dr Craig Wright claims to be the inventor of Bitcoin and to have authored the Bitcoin White Paper in 2008, created the Bitcoin File Format and mined the inaugural block [...]

Byline: Claire Bushell Harvard is arguably the most prominent academic institution in the world, yet it is still so elusive and coveted. Each and every day, more than 1000 tourists [...]

The Court of Appeal has held, by a majority, that a shipowner was not entitled to rely on a force majeure clause in a shipping contract where its charterer's parent [...]

A recent decision acts as a further reminder of the need to comply with Practice Direction (PD) 57AC, which applies to trial witness statements signed on or after 1 April [...]

At a recent Case Management Conference (CMC), where a split trial was proposed by the claimants in a claim brought pursuant to Section 90A and Schedule 10A of the Financial [...]

A recent High Court decision highlights the need to think carefully before applying to strike out an opponent's witness statements, or parts of them, for non-compliance with Practice Direction (PD) [...]

In good news for financial institutions processing client payments, a multinational bank has successfully defended a US$1.7bn claim brought by the Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN), with the court finding [...]

The challenge of enforcing court orders in respect of cryptocurrencies may become easier, following the settlement announced last week between the Bitcoin Association for BSV and Tulip Trading Ltd (TTL). [...]

The latest in a line of High Court decisions considering Practice Direction (PD) 57AC, which applies to trial witness statements signed since April 2021, suggests that opponents should identify specific [...]

The High Court has clarified what is meant by 'person discharging managerial responsibilities' (PDMR) in the context of Section 90A and Schedule 10A of the Financial Services and Markets Act [...]

In the latest decision to consider the Quincecare duty, the Board of the Privy Council has confirmed that the duty is limited to protecting the customers of a bank, and [...]

A recent High Court decision has taken a similar approach to previous cases in refusing to strike out a witness statement for failure to comply with Practice Direction (PD) 57AC, [...]

In a recent decision, the High Court has found that the terms of a Facility Agreement governed by English law allowed the borrower to withhold payment of interest instalments where [...]

CAN a ketchup be too partisan? And what exactly does 'conservative' taste like? Over the last five months, W Ketchup and Bush Country Ketchup have been marketed as a swipe […]

Claudine Bushelle and Rebecca ford, Senior Lawyers at Clifford Chance, discuss the raft of legal issues facing local government PFI in light of legislative changes. Local government PFI is a [...]

COVID has been an eye-opener. It has shone a light on society; how it operates and the fundamentals that we require to function. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel said it best: reopening a country is a whole lot harder than closing it down. Nowhere more is this the case than in childcare. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LATE Saturday afternoon and the four of us are happily decorating the cups and vases we have just made in our family pottery class. Well, Hector isn't doing much decoration, but my one-year-old is having a lot of fun dipping his little hands into the pots of brightly coloured poster paint on the trestle table. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BRITAIN'S railways hit a new low yesterday as hundreds of thousands of passengers were told not to travel to London. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BRITAIN'S railways reached a shameful new low yesterday as hundreds of thousands of passengers were told not to travel to London. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the proposal of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to reduce its pension benefits for priests in a Boston, Massachusetts.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "At Lunch, Donald Trump Gives Critics Hope," by Thomas L. Friedman in the November 23, 2016 issue, "Pope Extends Priests' Ability to Forgive the 'Grave Sin' of Abortion" in the November 22, 2016 issue, and "A Foolish Power Grab in Congo" in the November 21, 2016 issue.