Litigation Notes

New series of webcasts on the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020

The new Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020, which came into effect on 26 June 2020, could have a significant impact on companies in distress …

Article published - Damages-based agreements and termination: a small chink of light

Damages-based agreements (or DBAs), under which a lawyer can receive an agreed percentage of any damages in the event of success, were introduced to …

Article published – Wasted breath? Insolvency reforms in response to Covid-19

The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 introduces sweeping insolvency reforms in response to the business impacts of Covid-19, designed "to …

Commercial litigation podcast series – Episode 3: General update

Article published - Directors' duties in a COVID-19 world

With a global pandemic causing unprecedented uncertainty for businesses, it has never been more difficult for the directors of UK companies fully to …

Article published - Funders’ liability for adverse costs: scrapping the cap

As explained in this previous post, the Court of Appeal has recently dismissed an appeal against a decision which declined to apply the so-called …

Article published - Legal advice privilege: a dominant purpose test, but to what end?

The Court of Appeal's recent decision in The Civil Aviation Authority v The Queen on the application of Jet2.com Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 35 found that legal …

Drafting contracts: Key lessons from 2019

This annual contract law update from our corporate team considers a number of interesting contract law cases from 2019 which highlighted key points …

Cross-Border Litigation: Latest update published

We are pleased to release the latest issue of our periodic publication "Cross-Border Litigation", designed to highlight legal and practical issues …

Our new Commercial Litigation Podcast Series

HSF overview of collective damages claims in competition cases in the UK published in GCR Guide to Private Litigation

Our competition litigation team's overview of collective damages claims in competition cases in the UK has recently been published as part of Global …