In the important judgment in Philipp v Barclays Bank plc handed down this week, the UK Supreme Court has rejected the extension of a...
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Lord Sumption recently delivered the lead judgment in proceedings before the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) which concerned the...
In recent months, public statements by the Biden administration and senior officials from US enforcement agencies attest to a renewed...
On 13 December 2021 NatWest was fined £264 million for breaches of the Money Laundering Regulations 2007 (MLR 2007). NatWest had...
The UK Competition Appeal Tribunal has today handed down its first class certification judgment following last year’s UK Supreme Court...
In 2019, the UK's FCA commissioned an in-depth review into defined benefit (DB) pension transfer advice. Since that time, there has been...
In recent blog posts, we predicted that the year ahead would see an increase in group workforce litigation. The most obvious topics that...
An “on demand” bond imposes a primary obligation on the issuer (usually a bank) to pay when the beneficiary makes a compliant written...
The Court of Appeal has now closed another potential avenue for Interest Rate Hedging Product (IRHP) customers seeking to challenge the...
Trustees of some of the UK’s largest defined benefit (DB) pension schemes – BT, Ford and Marks and Spencer (M&S) – are seeking a judicial...
The Supreme Court has today handed down an important decision on the ‘class certification’ procedure under the regime for opt-out...
On 20 August 2020, the ICSID arbitration tribunal in Portigon AG v Kingdom of Spain rendered a ground-breaking decision that opens the...