As a result of Brexit, there is a risk that physical electricity and gas trading via UK brokers will no longer be covered by the so-called REMIT carve-out and that such transactions will therefore be subject to financial market regulation.
Ryland Ash and Alexander Creswick have written a feature piece for construction sector publication PBC Today on payment regimes and mechanisms in contracts.
Find out what the Supreme Court had to say on the FCA’s business interruption test case in this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, as well as Court of Appeal decisions on without prejudice privilege, whether an expert owes fiduciary duties to their client, and when a claim will be struck out as an abuse of process.
In the fifth of our nine-part series on the OFTO Regime, this article, we consider how the operation of the Generator Commissioning Clause affects the OFTO tender process, its unintended consequences and whether it is still fit for purpose.
In this article we discuss a recent decision of the TCC which provided useful guidance on the meaning of “design life” in construction contracts.
There are lots of cases to get your teeth into in our first Commercial Disputes Weekly of 2021, from decisions on asymmetric jurisdiction clauses and the costs implications of abandoning a claim, to the latest guidance on the Disclosure Review Pilot and the application of rules on challenging jurisdiction to stakeholder claims.
This article explores recent developments in Spain’s e-mobility legislative framework as the Government steps up its promotion of the decarbonisation of the transport sector as part of the country’s energy transition between 2030 to 2050.
This article considers updates to the ICC arbitration rules which came into force on 1 January 2021, including provisions on consolidation and joinder, and the use of remote hearings.
The comprehensive reform of German restructuring and insolvency law implements the European Restructuring Directive but also makes further important changes to the insolvency law.
In the last of this year’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, discover the meaning of arbitration, what the Court of Appeal thinks about redundancy arguments when construing contracts, and when the English courts will restrain payment under a performance guarantee. With very best wishes to all our readers, we’ll be back in 2021!
