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Oct 7, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Stuart Alford KC |Oliver Browne |Charlotte Warke
[co-author: Jumana Rahman]The Civil Procedure Rules (“CPR”) have been amended to reflect the Court of Appeal decision in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ. 141. The courts in England and Wales can now order parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) where such an order is proportionate and does not undermine the parties’ right to a judicial hearing.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Stuart Alford KC |Oliver Browne |Jumana Rahman |Charlotte Warke
The Civil Procedure Rules (“CPR”) have been amended to reflect the Court of Appeal decision in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ. 141. The courts in England and Wales can now order parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) where such an order is proportionate and does not undermine the parties’ right to a judicial hearing.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Gregory Bonné |Oliver Browne |Alex Cox
Welcome to our London Litigation Year in Review and 2024 Outlook. In this report, we examine the litigation trends that shaped the commercial landscape in 2023 and look at how these developments are likely to play out in the year ahead.
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Jan 14, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Oliver Browne |Douglas Cumming |Mark Hutchinson |Samuel N. Kirshner
Introduction Equity investment in FinTech has expanded rapidly over the past decade – amounting to over $1 trillion in more than 35,000 deals from 2010 to 2021 – and has been described as a FinTech boom (Cumming and Schwienbacher, 2018). This expansion far outpaces the growth of non-FinTech investment, with capital raised by FinTech companies reaching 5% of the value of global equity deals in 2020, up from less than 1% in 2010 (Cornelli et al., 2021).
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Dec 7, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Oliver Browne |Ian Felstead |Mair Williams |Matthew Unsworth
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Jessica Walker |Jonathan Akinluyi |Oliver Browne |Robin Spedding
Commencing proceedingsLitigation climateHow would you describe the general climate surrounding insolvency litigation in your jurisdiction? What are the most common sources of dispute? To what extent is litigation used as a pressure or delay tactic? Insolvency litigation has long been a feature of the dispute resolution landscape in England and Wales.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Oliver Browne |Ram Mashru |Robert Price
September 27, 2023
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The Law Commission’s Final Report on the Arbitration Act 1996 makes a modest number of important recommendations for reform.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
cato.org | Oliver Browne |Ludovica Gazze |Michael Greenstone |Olga Rostapshova
Research Briefs in Economic Policy September 13, 2023 • Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 349 TOP New technologies are often hailed as the solution to governments’ failures to achieve compliance with laws and regulations in environmental, tax collection, and other domains. These technologies drive the cost of monitoring to virtually zero, thus increasing the probability of detecting violations.
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May 12, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Oliver Browne |Richard Butterwick |Catherine Campbell
[co-author: Leah Adeniran]Changing market dynamics have led buyers to assess available options to address post-closing target company issues. Amid the buoyant market of 2021 and early 2022, compressed deal timelines and frenzied competition caused many deals to be signed with fewer buyer protections and less information about target businesses than buyers required in a different deal-making cycle.
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May 3, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Oliver Browne |Duncan Graves
A recent decision reminds parties about the need to draft dispute resolution clauses that are tailored to the parties’ agreement. The Court of Appeal recently ruled that an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) clause in a contract was unenforceable due to lack of clarity. The ruling signals to contracting parties that they should draft ADR clauses carefully, outlining the process to be followed with sufficient detail and clarity so that the clause can be enforced.
