In Berkeley Square Holdings Limited & Others v Lancer Property Asset Management Limited & Others, the English Court of Appeal has upheld...
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The English Court of Appeal has reaffirmed the extremely narrow scope of the ‘unambiguous impropriety’ exception to without prejudice...
An auditor producing documents to the Financial Reporting Council (the FRC) must make its own assessment of whether those documents are...
Exceptions to the without prejudice rule are notoriously restricted, given that the fundamental premise of the rule is that litigants...
On 28 January 2020 the England and Wales Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in The Civil Aviation Authority v Jet2.Com Ltd, R. (on...
The Court of Appeal, in WH Holding Ltd & Anor v E20 Stadium LLP, has handed down judgment clarifying the meaning of “conducting...
No sooner has the dust settled on the ENRC decision, than the High Court delivers another sizzler… developing the law on privilege...
“The law as it stands today is settled. Privilege does not apply to first interview notes.” This is the view expressed by the High Court...
Much as they did in 2016, cross-border financial transactions continued to generate litigation throughout 2017, and the English courts...
It is a scenario that happens all too often within global businesses: upon hearing of potential misconduct or a possible legal dispute,...
The European Commission increasingly issues large document requests in complex merger cases. The number of requested documents has...