Jul 14, 2023 UK Supreme Court rejects extension of Quincecare duty and clarifies its juridical basis By Anthea Bowater Sarah Robinson Christine Simpson Nicole Looi +1 more... Show less In the important judgment in Philipp v Barclays Bank plc handed down this week, the UK Supreme Court has rejected the extension of a...
May 02, 2023 Lord Sumption delivers Judgment on the Quincecare duty By Sarah Robinson Christine Simpson Laila Pourdad Lord Sumption recently delivered the lead judgment in proceedings before the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal (CFA) which concerned the...
Dec 15, 2022 ClientEarth withdraws lawsuit against the Belgian National Bank By Honor May Sarah Robinson Alice Skupski On 13 April 2021, ClientEarth filed a landmark action in Belgium against the Belgian National Bank (the BNB). ClientEarth argued that the...
Dec 01, 2022 COP27: Key take-aways for the financial services sector By Sarah Robinson Emmanuel Bandoh Tamara OSTROWIECKI COP27 may be over but it is clear from this year’s conference that there is an urgent need to accelerate progress towards meeting climate...
Jul 29, 2022 FCA enforcement action on Russian sanctions By Oliver Hamill Christopher Robinson Sarah Robinson Given the exceptional scale and speed with which sanctions were implemented against Russia by the UK Government, the FCA and the Office...
Jun 20, 2022 Commercial Court clarifies the scope of the Quincecare duty By Sarah Robinson Christine Simpson In a judgment published on 14 June, Mrs Justice Cockerill dismissed a claim by the Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN) against JPMorgan...
Nov 06, 2020 Review of corporate criminal liability in the UK – reform delayed but not rejected By Laura Feldman Madeleine Wall Sarah Robinson More than three and a half years after its call for evidence on reforming corporate liability for economic crime, the UK government has...