Archive: December 2020
Subscribe to December 2020Admissibility of pre-contractual negotiations in actions for rectification
December 18, 2020
Parties should be alive to the complications that an action for rectification may cause, if brought alongside or in the alternative to an action raising a point of construction.
Issues to consider when serving a claim form via social media
December 14, 2020
English courts have a wide discretion to authorise service of a claim form. CPR 6.15(1) grants that “where it appears to the court that there is good reason… the court may make an order permitting service by an alternative method or alternative place”.
Scope of legal advice privilege for foreign in-house lawyers
December 07, 2020
The scope and application of legal advice privilege for foreign in-house lawyers has been clarified by the English Commercial Court.