Emma Ball

Sep 20, 2023 | lexology.com | Emma Ball |Mark Crossley |Rupert Sydenham |Annie Lund

Infrastructure projects increasingly involve constructing both physical infrastructure and digital infrastructure works. But the current standard form construction contracts have not been designed to address the risks particular to these kinds of projects. What are the risks particular to projects involving both physical and digital infrastructure? And how might standard form construction contracts need to adapt to address them?

Sep 18, 2023 | lexology.com | Thomas Kendra |Emerson Holmes |Emma Ball

In two recent decisions related to anti-suit injunctions in the presence of an arbitration clause, the English courts grapple with the differences between the French and English legal systems. The recent ruling in R v G (anonymised) by the English Commercial Court marks a decisive move towards finding common ground between the English and French courts, rather than in the words of the presiding judge Mr Justice Robin Knowles (Knowles J): "difference or tension or other difficulty or clash".