I Executive summary Switzerland is a small but, nevertheless, very important banking country and commodity trading hub. It is thus not surprising that Switzerland is also a prominent jurisdiction for ...

The London Court of Appeal has ruled that litigation funders can be paid their fee before class action members get their cut of the damages. Industry players have lauded a pivotal judgment made last ...

Deirdre Walker and Aarti Thadani, of Norton Rose Fulbright, discuss the impact of recent judicial decisions taken in Dubai on the status of the DIFC courts as a ‘conduit jurisdiction’ – and what this ...

The annual Ciarb lecture tackled the inequalities and harms of current arbitral proceedings, and appealed for a united approach to dispute resolution across the different methods. The 15th annual ...

As the new year edges closer, CDR explores what big litigation trends will sweep the US in 2025. While Big Tech antitrust actions, IP battles and shareholder disputes dominated the US litigation ...

In speeches split across three venues, LIDW Arbitration Day heard from Kevin Nash, director general of the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), who spoke of the importance of strong ...

Former senior CPS barrister Alexander Wolfson is readying a mega-money UK class action against Microsoft for allegedly inflating the price of its software licences. A lawsuit purported to be one of ...

The Delaware court has handed down one of the first legal decisions addressing whether training an AI model using copyrighted content can be defended as fair use – concluding that it cannot. In an ...

Ashurst’s commonwealth government-focused office will become part of Australian firm Thomson Geer in July, in a week where a German white-collar boutique has opened a Cologne office and an ...

Ukrainian firm Arzinger has announced its first new managing partner in 23 years, while the departure of US public service lawyers continues unabated in this week’s review of disputes practitioner ...

The South Korean arbitral institution has named its third secretary-general, as new ventures have opened for business in Europe and the US amid the latest high-level practitioner moves. South Korea is ...

Originally scheduled for release in January this year, new rules for the prominent Canadian arbitral institution have been delayed until March at the earliest, with changes likely to include the ...