Commercial Client

• Low-Paid Workers’ Union Triumphs in COVID-19 Health and Safety Test Case

  • Posted14 January 2021

  Many low-paid workers who have an essential role in keeping the nation moving are at particularly high risk from the COVID-19 pandemic. In a ground-breaking decision, the High Court came...

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• High Court Ruling Underlines the Benefits of English Arbitration Clauses

  • Posted12 January 2021

  As a guideline High Court decision emphasised, the greatest advantage of including English arbitration clauses in commercial contracts is that they prevent litigation from proliferating around the world and focus...

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• Commercial Tenants – How Well Do You Understand Your Obligations?

  • Posted8 January 2021

  Before signing up to a commercial lease, tenants should always take expert legal advice to ensure they truly understand the obligations they are taking on. The point was powerfully made...

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• Succession Planning Good, Age Discrimination Bad – EAT Ruling

  • Posted6 January 2021

  Any organisation that does not have an effective system of succession planning in place must face an uncertain future. As a ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) underlined, however,...

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• Advent of Artificial Intelligence Poses Fundamental Questions in Patents Case

  • Posted4 January 2021

  Is the capacity to invent an exclusively human quality? Or has the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) rendered that proposition obsolete? Those fundamental issues took centre stage in a unique...

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• Court Enforces Exclusive English Jurisdiction Clause in Insurance Dispute

  • Posted31 December 2020

  The high reputation of the Commercial Court in London for efficiency and impartiality is such that English jurisdiction clauses are a ubiquitous feature of contracts signed around the world. They...

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