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Oct 29, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Alexis L. Namdar |Dorothy Murray
We are keeping an eye on the progress of the reform of the
English Arbitration Act 1996. The Arbitration Bill, first
introduced in November 2023, was designed to update the Arbitration
Act 1996 and reinforce England's position as an attractive
forum for international arbitration.
As noted in our most recent blog in this series, the bill was shelved when the 2024
English general election was called.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Dorothy Murray |Alexis L. Namdar
We are keeping an eye on the progress of the reform of the English Arbitration Act 1996. The Arbitration Bill, first introduced in November 2023, was designed to update the Arbitration Act 1996 and reinforce England’s position as an attractive forum for international arbitration. As noted in our most recent blog in this series, the bill was shelved when the 2024 English general election was called.
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May 30, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Julia Bihary |Dorothy Murray |Dorothy Murray
Experts can make or break a case. In this two-part article, we consider how to get the best results at trial looking at the why, the who and the how of working with experts. Why (Do We Need Experts)?
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May 16, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Dorothy Murray
In this article series, we look at key arbitration related decisions from the past year and draw out the key lessons for users of arbitration. Arbitral awards are rarely set aside by national courts but the 2023 English case of The Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Ltd. involved an extraordinary and successful challenge to an US $11bn award for serious irregularity, despite the high threshold applied by English law.
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May 16, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Dorothy Murray |Julia Bihary |Laura Ganoza |Jeffrey Greene
TSCA/FIFRA/TRIEPA Issues Asbestos Part 2 Draft Risk Evaluation, Preliminarily Determines That Asbestos Poses Unreasonable Risk To Human Health:On April 16, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of and requested public comment on a draft document titled “Draft Risk Evaluation for Asbestos Part 2: Supplemental Evaluation Including Legacy Uses and Associated Disposals of Asbestos.” 89 Fed. Reg. 26878.
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May 16, 2024 | 
mindingyourbusinesslitigation.com | Dorothy Murray |Julia Bihary
In this article series, we look at key arbitration related decisions from the past year and draw out the key lessons for users of arbitration. Arbitral awards are rarely set aside by national courts but the 2023 English case of The Federal Republic of Nigeria v Process & Industrial Developments Ltd. involved an extraordinary and successful challenge to an US $11bn award for serious irregularity, despite the high threshold applied by English law.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Margaret Dale |Michael Hackett |Stephen Hibbard |William Komaroff |Timothy W. Mungovan |Dorothy Murray | +14 more
Big fund-raising rounds and high valuations have some wondering whether the AI sector is in a bubble in the nature of the dotcom boom. As of this writing, OpenAI is valued at over $80 billion; Amazon added another $2.75 billion to its investment in Anthropic; and even some very early-stage startups, like France-based Mistral AI, have racked up hundreds of millions in venture-capital funding at valuations over a billion dollars.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Margaret Dale |Michael Hackett |Stephen Hibbard |William Komaroff |Timothy W. Mungovan |Dorothy Murray | +15 more
2023’s excitement for generative artificial intelligence (AI) prompted the SEC to respond on multiple fronts – stump speeches, rulemaking, new exam priorities and sweeps and previewing potential enforcement actions. SEC Chair Gary Gensler raised concerns regarding potential conflicts and investor harm resulting from the proliferation of AI and warned that an AI-caused financial crisis is nearly unavoidable absent regulation.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Margaret Dale |Michael R. Hackett |Stephen Hibbard |William Komaroff |Timothy W. Mungovan |Dorothy Murray | +16 more
ESG continues to be a hot topic for 2024 for investors and regulators alike. The specific concerns investors and regulators have – and what they expect to develop over the coming months – differ, however, across jurisdictions, including because of the different maturity of existing regulation between the EU/UK and the US.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Dorothy Murray |Charles Bishop
In July 2019, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) handed down a judgment
in a case that concerned the extent and operation of the principle
of open justice (Cape v Dring). The question before the
UKSC was how much of the written material placed before the court
in a civil action should be accessible to those who are not parties
to the proceedings and how it should be made accessible to
them.
One of major draws of litigating before the English Courts is
its principle of open justice.
