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English High Court Clarifies Scope Of Legal Advice Privilege

In a judgment handed down on 16 April 2026 (the Judgment), the English Commercial Court (the Court) in Aabar Holdings SARL & Others v Glencore PLC & Ors1 held that certain intra-client communications and documents may attract legal advice privilege...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Points Of Interest From The Autonomy Consequentials Judgment For Financial Institutions Involved In Defending Section 90A / Schedule 10A FSMA Shareholder Claims

The judgment gives guidance on how the court will approach questions of non-sterling currency fluctuations, both when determining quantum and when assessing costs recoverability...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK Court Of Appeal Refuses To Extend Criminal Contempt To Foreign Anti-suit Injunctions

Explore Dechert's comprehensive news and insights portal, featuring legal updates, practice area analysis, and industry-specific content.

United Kingdom Criminal

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Dechert

Court Of Appeal Confirms Unauthorised Individuals Can Lawfully Perform Tasks That Amount To The Conduct Of Litigation, Provided They Do So For And On Behalf Of, And Under The Supervision Of, An Authorised Person Who Is “carrying On” That Litigation

The decision also provides a non-exhaustive list of tasks that are unlikely to fall within the definition of "conduct of litigation".

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Achieving An Orderly End: Reasonable Notice Of Termination In The Absence Of An Express Term

United Kingdom Commercial

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Goodwin Procter LLP

Commercial Court Report For 2024-2025 Highlights Another Busy Year

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

How Courts Interpret Deadlines In Commercial Contracts: SLD v PAK [2026]

United Kingdom Commercial

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Barnes Law

How Case Managers Support Clients During And After Compensation Claims (Video)

United Kingdom Litigation

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Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

English Court Of Appeal Confirms Limits On Appeals From Section 68 Decisions

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Undisclosed Principals In English Law: Lessons From MSH v HCS

United Kingdom Commercial

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Barnes Law

Russian Aircraft Policy Claims: Update On Permission To Appeal Applications

United Kingdom Insurance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Arbitral Confidentiality Vs. Specific Disclosure Applications Before The English Courts Where There Is A Suspected 'Sham' Arbitration

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

AI In The Courtroom: Key Takeaways From Recent Decisions In The Courts Of England And Wales

United Kingdom Litigation

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Court Of Appeal Overturns Ruling In CILEX And Others v Mazur And Others

United Kingdom Litigation

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

Boilerplate Bites: Notices, Termination And Consequences Of Termination (Video)

United Kingdom Commercial

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Travers Smith LLP

The Latest On The Digital Omnibus On AI

United Kingdom Technology

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Lewis Silkin

Tech 10 – NRF Reflections: The Future Of Retail Technology (Video)

United Kingdom Technology

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AlixPartners

Home Affairs Committee Publishes Report On Inquiry Into UK Government’s Earned Settlement Proposals

United Kingdom Immigration

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Lewis Silkin

Podcast: When David Met Goliath—Episode 1: Why Lawyers Who Ignore AI Risk Becoming Dinosaurs

United Kingdom Technology

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AlixPartners

Limitation Period Applies To Unfair Prejudice Petitions Under Section 994 Of The Companies Act 2006 (THG Plc v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey))

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal has rejected 40 years of ‘received wisdom’ among company law practitioners and has held that a limitation period of either twelve or six years...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Gatehouse Chambers

Resetting The Rules On Unfair Prejudice Claims: THG v Zedra [2026]

The Supreme Court's decision in THG v Zedra Trust Company (Jersey) Ltd [2026] UKSC 6 removes a developing limitation defence in unfair prejudice claims. The position is now clear: there is no statutory longstop.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Barnes Law

High Court Imposes Constructive Trust Over Properties Purchased With Misappropriated Company Funds

The decision also demonstrates that a party may, in appropriate circumstances, be bound by the factual findings made in earlier proceedings to which it was not a party.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

FIDIC Notice Of Contractor Claim Under Sub-Clause 20.1 Required Where Variation Procedure Not Followed

Last year, I wrote in International Quarterly, Issue 40 about a recent Privy Council decision relating to a FIDIC-based contract and said it was a rare treat...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Fenwick Elliott LLP

State Immunity And ICSID Awards: The UK Supreme Court Joins International Consensus On Enforcement

Worldwide Litigation

Aceris Law

A Taxing SLAPP: The First Judicial Test Of The UK's Anti-SLAPP Regime

United Kingdom Litigation

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Lewis Silkin

You (Don’t) Pays Your Money And You (Still) Takes Your Choice

United Kingdom Litigation

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Gatehouse Chambers

A Decision In The Italian Supreme Court Brings Clarity To The Recognition Of Foreign Judgements In Civil Suits, Awarding Punitive Damages

United Kingdom Litigation

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Giambrone & Partners

Court Of Appeal Strengthens Anti-Suit Enforcement: NW2 v Tecnimont [2026]

United Kingdom Litigation

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Barnes Law

Kounis v Critchlow And Associates Ltd [2026] EWHC 693 (KB)

United Kingdom Litigation

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Gatehouse Chambers

Suspended Sentences, Early Release And Overcrowding: Understanding The Sentencing Act 2026

United Kingdom Criminal

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BCL Solicitors LLP

Real Burdens: A Real Problem For Rural Development?

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

The "£ In, £ Out” Argument: The Court Of Appeal’s Definition Of Loss In Afan Valley V Lupton Fawcett.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Gatehouse Chambers

Court Of Appeal Finds Expert's Determination Was Not Manifestly In Error

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Suspended Sentences, Early Release And Overcrowding: Understanding The Sentencing Act 2026

You would be forgiven for blinking and missing the implementation of the Sentencing Act 20261 (‘the Act), some of which came into force on 22 March 2026.

United Kingdom Criminal

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BCL Solicitors LLP

Real Burdens: A Real Problem For Rural Development?

Increasingly, Scotland’s rural businesses are looking to diversify. That can take many forms.

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP

The "£ In, £ Out” Argument: The Court Of Appeal’s Definition Of Loss In Afan Valley V Lupton Fawcett.

In Afan Valley Ltd (in Administration, acting by Robert Armstrong and Andrew Knowles as Joint Administrators) and 42 others v Lupton Fawcett LLP...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Gatehouse Chambers

Court Of Appeal Finds Expert's Determination Was Not Manifestly In Error

The decision confirms that the general test for "manifest error" applies to questions of contractual interpretation whether or not they involve mathematical formulae.

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Cross-examining AI – Episode 1: Civil Justice Council AI Consultation And Latest Developments In AI And Privilege (Podcast)

United Kingdom Technology

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK Supreme Court Confirms States Party To The ICSID Convention Cannot Rely On Immunity To Avoid Recognition Of ICSID Awards

The UK Supreme Court has confirmed that States cannot rely on state immunity to resist registration of ICSID awards, as Article 54(1) of the ICSID Convention constitutes a submission to the court's jurisdiction...

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Bitesize Boilerplate: Small Clauses, Big Impact - Focus On Assignment

Assignment and other dealings clauses typically seek to control who can perform the contract and who can receive any benefit under the contract. Note that for the purposes of this alert we have not dealt...

United Kingdom Commercial

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Gowling WLG

CAT Ruling On Pass-on In Merchant Interchange Fee Umbrella Proceedings

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has handed down a significant judgment relating to pass-on in the Umbrella Interchange Fees litigation, in which merchant claimants...

United Kingdom Anti-trust

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAP): OECD Publishes New Manual For Effective International Tax Disputes

On 2 February 2026, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published an updated edition of the Manual on Effective Mutual Agreement Procedures (MEMAP).

United Kingdom Tax

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Macfarlanes LLP

Privy Council Gives Guidance On Assessing Reasonable Notice For Terminating A Distribution Agreement Where There Is No Express Termination Clause

United Kingdom Commercial

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

English Court Of Appeal Confirms Scope Of Its Power To Grant Permission To Appeal Certain First Instance Decisions

United Kingdom Litigation

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Mayer Brown

From Findings To Fixes: Closing The Loop On Investigations

European Union Employment

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NAVEX

Just Out Of Reach Of The Long Arm Of The UPC: Court Of Appeal Confirms Limits Of Long-Arm Jurisdiction

United Kingdom IP

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Marks & Clerk

Does The Family Court System Accommodate Neurodivergent Parents Fairly?

United Kingdom Family

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Buckles Law

When "No Later Than" Is Not Enough: Calver J On Refund Guarantees, Conditions, Innominate Terms And Commercial Common Sense

United Kingdom Litigation

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Quadrant Chambers

Forever Is A Long Time: Rethinking Termination In Indefinite Agreements

United Kingdom Litigation

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A&O Shearman

No Shield For Sovereigns: UK Supreme Court Rejects Immunity Arguments In Enforcement Of ICSID Awards

United Kingdom Litigation

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A&O Shearman

UK Supreme Court Confirms No Sovereign Immunity For ICSID Award Enforcement

United Kingdom Litigation

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WilmerHale

Disputes 101 – Contract Compact Focusing On Recent Cases

United Kingdom Commercial

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A&O Shearman

“HEAD-ON” or “CROSSING” SITUATION – The Court of Appeal decides - Nigel Cooper KC and Robert Ward

United Kingdom Litigation

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Quadrant Chambers

Supreme Court Holds That No Statutory Limitation Period Applies To Unfair Prejudice Petitions

United Kingdom Litigation

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

U.K. Supreme Court Confirms Sovereign States Do Not Enjoy Adjudicative Immunity In Relation To Recognition Of ICSID Awards

United Kingdom Litigation

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Duane Morris LLP

UPChronicle - March 2026

United Kingdom IP

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Lewis Silkin

Civil Litigation As A First-Response Strategy: The UK Government's Fraud Strategy 2026–2029

United Kingdom Criminal

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Crowell & Moring LLP

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AlixPartners

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Anthony Gold Solicitors LLP

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IBB Law

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HLK

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Travers Smith LLP

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