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Court of Appeal considers the law on penalty clauses, contractual interpretation and costs orders

September 13, 2024

Considering the Court of Appeal decision in Houssein v London Credit [2024] EWCA Civ 721.

Rethinking reimbursement: Consultation launched on APP fraud reimbursement scheme

September 06, 2024

The UK Payment Systems Regulator published a consultation paper proposing a significant reduction in the maximum reimbursement limit for APP fraud claims.

Law Commission publishes revised Bill on digital assets as personal property

September 06, 2024

Commenting on the Law Commission's new draft Bill.

Failure to Prevent Fraud: when is it coming into force and what should organisations be doing now?

September 04, 2024

In their latest article on this topic, our regulation and investigations team discuss when the UK government’s “reasonable procedures” guidance is due to be published, when the failure to prevent fraud offence will come into force and what clients should be doing now to prepare, including key considerations based on their recent experience advising clients.

Commercial Litigation Round-Up – Sep 2024

September 03, 2024

Catch up on important legal developments in the past 4 months

Global Investigations podcast: episode three

August 28, 2024

In our third episode of the Inside Investigations podcast series, Thomas Hubbard (Senior Associate, Investigations, Enforcement and Compliance team, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London) is joined by Alexander Cappel (Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Frankfurt), Rongxin Huang (Partner, Shanghai Pacific Legal, Shanghai) and Kevin Harnisch (Head of White Collar Defense and Investigations, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Washington) to discuss privilege in investigations.

Tactical waiver of privilege may result in collateral waiver of privilege in other connected documents

August 27, 2024

Discussing Gorbachev v Guriev [2024] EWHC 622 (Comm), where the High Court held that a voluntary waiver of privilege may inadvertently result in a wider waiver of other privileged material.

Court grants injunctive relief where Russian proceedings brought in breach of asymmetric jurisdiction clause

August 23, 2024

Discussing the recent judgment in Barclays Bank PLC v PJSC Sovcombank & Anor [2024] EWHC 1338 (Comm) where the High Court granted the Applicant a final anti-suit injunction and anti-enforcement injunction.

A battle on termination and guidance from the Court on the right to relief from forfeiture

August 19, 2024

A briefing note discussing the recent High Court decision in FW Aviation (Holdings) 1 Ltd v Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company [2024] EWHC 1945 (Comm).

Global Investigations podcast: episode two

August 06, 2024

The rise of dawn raids