In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider the English court’s jurisdiction to enforce foreign judgments, two challenges to freezing injunctions and whether the pandemic was a catastrophe for insurance purposes.
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage is a technology and growing business sector. The German federal government has recently come out in favour of CCS as a “building block for a climate-neutral and competitive industry”.
The English High Court has handed down a significant decision in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency fraud. Watson Farley & Williams advised the successful party, Bitkub Online Co Ltd.
In this article, Natalie Jackson discusses the recent changes to the Lloyds Open Form salvage contract.
A trio of company law cases in this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, considering breach of fiduciary duty, after the event insurance and the evidential burden of establishing a trust.
This dispute is a further addition to a series of recent cases in which lenders have attempted to resist making payment, or sought recovery of payments made, under letters of credit, on the purported basis that the underlying contracts are fraudulent in nature.
This article examines the recent judgment of the Singapore Court of Appeal on the Nullity Exception that might also avail the banks. We consider whether it deserves another look or if it is time to close it down completely.
Read the 178th edition of our weekly update on Italian labour law.
A look at key aspects of the new UK Listing Rules and other recent developments of note.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we discuss the Supreme Court’s reasons for granting an anti-suit injunction in support of a Paris arbitration, as well as decisions on agency, climate issues in planning permission and abusive proceedings.