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The English Commercial Court recently gave judgment in a case in which a number of the defendants claimed state immunity – Basel Hashwah and others v. Qatar National Bank (Q.P.S.C.) and others [2022] EWHC 2242 (Comm). The claims arose out of the defendants’ alleged participation in an alleged terrorist funding arrangement, by which funds were...

Introduction Modern slavery is an update of the term “contemporary forms of slavery” which has been used for decades by the UN to address the same issues [1]. There is no globally agreed definition of “modern slavery”(Scarpa, 2018); however, it is being increasingly used by advocacy groups, international organisations and governments to refer to a...

A recent Supreme Court Judgment has answered the long-awaited question about how the holiday pay for part-year workers should be calculated. A ‘part-year worker’ is someone who is permanently employed, but they only work for certain periods throughout the year, for example, term time only workers. Employees in the UK are legally entitled to receive...

As the digital revolution continues through the evolution of crypto products; tokenisation, decentralised finance, data handling and the metaverse, there are key legal and regulatory issues that must be considered. Read more in our leaflet

In response to AELF’s claim filed in the Commercial Court in London, SLM raised a very technical argument that the airline was not served correctly under the English State Immunity Act because the airline is, according to the airline, a sovereign state. This argument led to two hearings in both of which SLM’s arguments were dismissed.

In response to AELF’s claim filed in the Commercial Court in London, SLM raised a very technical argument that the airline was not served correctly under the English State Immunity Act because the airline is, according to the airline, a sovereign state.

Commercial parties want certainty in their dealings. The recent High Court case of Brooke Homes (Bicester) Ltd v Portfolio Property Partners Ltd ought to make commercial parties think twice about casually inserting ill-defined endeavours or good faith clauses into their agreements, or else they might find themselves liable to pay millions of pounds in damages...

In Playing for time – claiming to be a sovereign state, I suggested that the arguments advanced by the Defendant in this case were wholly without merit. Judgment has now been given on the issue as to whether or not the Defendant is a state and on the method of service. The case is AELF...

Some more interesting legal issues arise in relation to the claims made by Virginia Giuffre against the Duke of York.

What is an NFT? An NFT is a ‘unique, digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, used to record ownership of an asset.’ They allow an individual to own any collectible item, for example physical or digital artwork and even music.