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Ten Top Tips for Service of Proceedings

Carl Troman, Barrister and Mediator at 4 New Square Service of proceedings continues to be a fertile ground for disputes. Meritorious and valuable claims can fail…

Stay of proceedings before serving a claim form

What should claimants do when limitation is about to expire? Noting the recent Court of Appeal decision in Grant v Dawn Meats (UK), Stephen Innes and…

Big Brother Watch & Others v The United Kingdom

Big Brother Watch and Others v the UK: the ECtHR ruled last week that aspects of the UK’s mass surveillance programmes violate various Articles of the…

APP and Cyber Fraud: a Commercial Litigator’s Perspective

Introduction APP (“authorised push payment”) fraud and related cyber frauds have featured heavily in the financial and mainstream press lately. These scams involve the victim being tricked…

Covered Investment in International Investment Law – Chapter in Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (Ed. Barton Legum, 2018)

Can Yeginsu (4 New Square Chambers) and Ceyda Knoebel (Gibson Dunn) examine the definition of “investment”, often a critical threshold question of jurisdiction in investor state…

Efficient management of litigation and arbitration

A talk by Sir Rupert Jackson at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre on 20th September 2018

What’s going on with lost litigation claims?

Helen Evans of 4 New Square examines the recent authorities looking at negligently conducted litigation, and asks if change is in store when the topic reaches…

Gambling with liability? The Supreme Court distinguishes Hedley Byrne

Simon Hale discusses the judgement handed down by the Supreme Court on Thursday 26 July 2018 in the case of Playboy Club London Ltd v Banca Nazionale…

Japanese Knotweed Claims

In this article I consider the problems caused by Japanese Knotweed and some of the types of legal claims that can be made, in the light…

Valuing Bungled Litigation, Edwards V Hugh James Ford Simey