Litigation Law, Mediation Law and Arbitration Law

The court affirmed that district courts must assess the existence of an arbitration agreement under the FSIA, while issues of scope were typically for the tribunal...

Government pension plans, state endowment funds, sovereign wealth funds and other arms of sovereign states are often investors in funds which borrow under subscription credit facilities.

In the recent case of For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Minister [2025] UKSC 16, the Supreme Court considered the definition of 'sex' in the Equality Act 2010 (the 'Equality Act')

Lord Tyre recently rejected two Court of Session appeals, one brought by William Walton, Chairman of the campaign group Road Sense and another by John and Maggie Fraser, so paving the way for the £400m Aberdeen Bypass Project to proceed.

On 27 May 2011, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgement in the case of R on the application of Sharon Shoesmith v OFSTED and others, upholding Ms Shoesmith’s appeal against the decision of the High Court in respect of the actions of the Secretary of State for Education and Haringey LBC, but dismissing it against OFSTED.

The decision of the ECtHR is now final – The UK Government has 6 months to address the blanket ban on prisoners’ votes.

On 16 September 2025, the Government introduced the Public Authority (Accountability) Bill – widely known as the Hillsborough Law – into Parliament.

For the first time since taking effect under English Law, the High Court in Wealmoor Ltd v KLM [2025] EWHC 1706 (Comm) considered the test for an "event" causing...

Hello everybody! Welcome to the September edition of Gatehouse's Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Newsletter. As the summer heat cools off, some of our barristers here at Gatehouse's PI...

Council Directive (EC) 86/653 on the coordination of the laws relating to commercial agents has been implemented in the UK by The Commercial Agents Regulations.

When Mr Bennett and six colleagues left the financial advisory business Towry to join a competitor, they were sued for breach of covenant.

In this recent case the Employment Appeal Tribunal ("EAT") held that an employee's unreasonable refusal to accept an offer of settlement can amount to a failure to mitigate loss, however not in the particular circumstances of this case.