Commercial

Dusoruth v Orca: does the absence of a liquidated debt automatically lead to the annulment of a bankruptcy order? Wilson Leung & Ryan Tang examine the judgment

The duties of directors in financially precarious companies: Mary Young & Adam Deacock examine the Supreme Court’s judgment in BTI v Sequana

Disquiet is growing in the City of London about the likely impact of the Bill of Rights Bill on the UK’s economic competitiveness, the Law Society has warned. 

The Product Liability Directive is to be overhauled, with the European Commission recently publishing its proposals for a more claimant-friendly set of laws. But what impact will this have in practice, particularly for post-Brexit Britain?

Don’t get your hopes up? Sarah Moore & Stuart Warmington consider the European Commission’s proposals for a claimant-friendly overhaul of the PLD

The Court of Appeal has highlighted the role of common sense in contractual construction, in a dispute over liability for legal fees.

Jeremy Lederman presents a useful contracts checklist and warns of the perils of rushing

In UK law, artistic parodies remain in a grey area between freedom of expression & protecting commercial reputations, as David Langwallner explains

The past two years of growth in the legal market could be a bubble, which is about to pop, according to the latest LexisNexis Gross Legal Product (GLP) Index.

A joint working party of the City of London Law Society and the Law Society of England and Wales Company Law Committees (the Joint Working Party) has published a response to the Takeover Panel (Panel) consultation, PCP 2022/2, which proposed various amendments to the definition of acting in concert in the Takeover Code (Code).