International commerce is undergoing a period of rapid, sometimes tumultuous, change. Globalisation has created new markets, new technologies, new competition and, with them, increased demand for effective mechanisms to...more
On 1 March 2017 the UK Supreme Court1 overturned an order of the Court of Appeal and decided that Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) could not be required to provide monetary security as a condition for resisting...more
On 8 February 2017, the Commission announced it had imposed fines totaling almost EUR 68 million on three companies for participating in a cartel to fix purchase prices of scrap lead-acid automotive batteries. The cartel...more
The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) has recently handed down a landmark judgment in the Hydrogen Peroxide case, confirming that cartel victims may jointly sue cartelists for damages in an EU Member State where only one of...more
One of the relatively unsung success stories of the European Union (and its predecessors) is its experiment in judicial co-operation. The first major component of this experiment was the 1968 Brussels Convention on...more
In this Issue: - Thwarting Torpedoes and Other Clarifications: Recast Brussels Regulation in Force From 10 January 2015 - International Energy Charter Signals New Global Cooperation in the Energy Sector ...more