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Burns v Financial Conduct Authority [2017] EWCA Civ 214: a sign of things to come?

Directors’ duties, procedural fairness and issue based costs; the Court of Appeal decision sheds light on several aspects of financial regulatory enforcement action.  

Five common perils of standstill agreements in professional liability claims

With standstill agreements back in the legal news following judgment being handed down in the Muduroglu matter ([2017] EWHC 29 (Ch)), Helen Evans sets out five…

International Diplomacy and the Contractual Bargain

Paul Fisher provides his thoughts on the latest crisis in the Gulf for Practical Law. This piece was first published on the Practical Law Construction blog….

QOCS UPDATE

An article on some recent cases on QOCS – Qualified One Way Costs Shifting

Liability of trustees in bankruptcy: important new Court of Appeal case

  The liability of trustees in bankruptcy to bankrupts is a curiously under-developed area of law. There has been a lack of clarity the circumstances in…

Qatar’s New Arbitration Law

Paul Fisher provides some preliminary thoughts on this significant development in Qatar’s arbitration landscape.

SAAMCO and the Distinction Between Advice and Information in Professional Negligence Claims

In this article, the implications of the decision in BPE Solicitors v Hughes-Holland [2017] UKSC 21 are considered by Roger Stewart QC and Scott Allen, who…

Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability (8th edition)

Jackson & Powell on Professional Liability provides comprehensive coverage of the general law around professional liability – the duties, remedies, defences, litigation, human rights issues.

Illegality: The ‘range of factors’ test and its likely impact

Privacy and Conflicts in the Court of Appeal: [2016] 132 LQR 31

In this case note, Josh Folkard considers the decision of Vidal-Hall v Google, which clarifies: – That privacy is protected in English law by a new…