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Article published - Pilot of new disclosure rules: a change for the better?
Julian Copeman and Maura McIntosh have published an article in PLC Magazine looking at the new disclosure rules that are due to be piloted in …
Article published - Class actions in England and Wales: key practical challenges
Damian Grave, Gregg Rowan and Maura McIntosh have published an article in PLC Magazine looking at how claims by large groups of claimants are litigated …
High Court refuses extension where claimants deliberately failed to serve claim form
In a recent judgment, the Senior Master of the High Court rejected an application for an extension of time to serve a claim form on one of the defendants …
High Court orders indemnity costs following discontinuance of proceedings alleging serious fraud
The High Court has ordered indemnity costs against a claimant who made repeated and serious allegations of fraud against the defendants and then …
Court of Appeal decision in ENRC: orthodoxy restored on litigation privilege, but narrow interpretation of "client" remains for now
The Court of Appeal has today handed down its eagerly awaited decision in the ENRC appeal: The Director of the Serious Fraud Office v Eurasian …
Court of Appeal rejects "sliding scale" approach to level of security for costs when real risk of non-enforcement established
The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal against the High Court's decision to reduce the amount of security for costs a Russian-resident claimant was …
New podcast - English governing law and jurisdiction clauses after Brexit
On the new Herbert Smith Freehills Podcast channel, Anna Pertoldi, Maura McIntosh and Tom Henderson discuss what businesses need to know about the …
No duty on solicitor to inform opponent of error in service
The High Court has held that there was no good reason to validate service retrospectively where the claimant's solicitors had served proceedings on …
No privilege for advice on how to "cloak" dismissal on basis of discrimination as dismissal for redundancy
In a recent decision, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) found that an email containing advice from an in-house lawyer was not protected by privilege …
Court of Appeal overturns decision granting very broad non-party access to court documents
The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court Master's order granting non-party access to the entirety of the hard copy trial bundles in a case …
Court of Appeal confirms offer relating to proposed claim by amendment was not valid Part 36 offer
The Court of Appeal has upheld a High Court decision that an offer to settle was not valid under CPR Part 36 as it related only to a claim put forward …
Court of Appeal finds ISDA jurisdiction clause trumps 'theoretically competing' clause in separate agreement governing wider relationship
Consistent with recent authority, the Court of Appeal has given primacy to an English jurisdiction clause in an ISDA Master Agreement (overturning the …
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