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• NHS England Agrees to Suspension of £140 Million Procurement Exercise

  • Posted14 February 2023

  Legal challenges by losing tenderers to the outcome of public procurement exercises are relatively common, but it is very much rarer for a judge to be asked to nip such...

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• High Court Orders Summary Enforcement of £22 Million Adjudication Award

  • Posted31 January 2023

  Judges take a robust approach to enforcing contract adjudicators’ decisions and will only overturn them if they have been made in excess of jurisdiction or in serious breach of the...

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• Commercial Contracts – What Terms and Conditions Are Incorporated?

  • Posted3 January 2023

  In many commercial disputes one deceptively simple, but at the same time crucial, question arises: whether particular terms and conditions are incorporated in a contract. A High Court ruling provided...

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• Directors’ Duties to Consider Creditors’ Interests – Landmark Supreme Court Ruling

  • Posted12 December 2022

  The primary duty of directors is to promote the success of the companies they serve for the benefit of their shareholders – but do they also owe a duty to...

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• Worldwide Freezing Injunctions Can Be Intrusive But Also Necessary

  • Posted28 November 2022

  Worldwide freezing injunctions (WFIs) are powerful judicial tools that can have a grave impact on the lives of those against whom they are targeted. However, as a High Court ruling...

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• COVID-19 – No Binding Contract for Supply of Millions of Surgical Face Masks

  • Posted14 November 2022

  As demand for personal protective equipment exploded at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the business community leapt to the pumps. However, in the context of knife-edge negotiations for the...

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