Litigation Law, Mediation Law and Arbitration Law

This Article is part of a series, each focussing on a different aspect of the Supreme Court's judgment in URS Corporation Ltd v BDW Trading Ltd [2025] UKSC 21. A couple of weeks ago, Catherine Piercy KC and Emma Hynes...

In the majority of clinical negligence cases, liability is determined purely on the basis of the Bolam test (Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582).

When a minor causes serious harm, questions about who should be held legally responsible often arise.

Electric scooters have become a popular form of urban mobility, but their use carries significant risks. These stem mainly from sharing roads with larger vehicles...

Marketing Director Brenda Agnew, was recently featured on the Trexo Robotics Podcast, The Mobility Mindset.

When someone is injured on municipal property in Saskatchewan, a key question arises: Can the municipality be held responsible?

On 16 September 2011, the Polish Parliament adopted a significant amendment to the Polish Civil Procedure Code (the "Code").

On May 9, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged former Detroit mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, former city treasurer Jeffrey W. Beasley, MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, LLC ("MGRA") a registered investment adviser, and Mayfield the CEO and majority owner of MGRA, in connection with allegations that they were involved in a secret exchange of lavish gifts to peddle influence over Detroit’s public pension funds’ investment process.

A recent California federal court decision denied certification to a putative class of Facebook "cost-per-click" advertisers who allegedly were charged by Facebook for fraudulent or invalid clicks on their advertisements.

A year after the uncertainty created in the Canadian corporate debt financing world by the Ontario Court of Appeal's pensions-friendly decision in the Indalex CCAA restructuring matter, the Quebec Superior Court, in April 2012, determined in a lengthy and well-reasoned decision that the key restructuring and pensions law principles underpinning Indalex do not apply in Quebec when considering the treatment of defined benefit amortization payment and deficit claims in a restructuring.

The Federal Court of Appeal ("FCA") upheld the judicial review decision of the Federal Court ("FC") in "Livaditis v. Canada Revenue Agency".

On 10 May 2012 European Court of Justice has given a significant judgment (Santander) concerning withholding tax.