We are starting to hear reports of businesses declaring the Trump Administration's Executive Order on tariffs to be a force majeure event under their contracts. Most of us now have rather more experience than we'd like to of...more
If you draft contracts, you want to ensure, if there's ever a dispute, that the court agrees with your meaning. As a litigator, you will want the words to mean whatever your client wants them to mean. Either way, you need to...more
2/6/2025
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I went to an excellent talk by Michael Fealy QC to the London Solicitors Association about termination. The main thing I took away was his deceptively simple route map to approaching this thorny subject. ...more
The Law Commission has published an impressive paper on smart legal contracts to which Allen & Overy, along with many others, contributed; but what does it all mean? ...more
What can in-house legal, risk and compliance leaders learn from the Covid-19 pandemic and other notable crises of the past 20 years to strengthen the legal resilience of their organisations?
More than any other crisis in...more
In ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis [2015] EWCA Civ 402, 23 April 2015, a dispute about the non-payment of a GBP 85 parking fine the Court of Appeal has explored the fundamental principles of the rule against penalties and given an...more