Commercial

Or at least the so-called “illegality defence” will not protect rogue directors, explains Richard Highley

Thomas Spencer suggests an elegant but overlooked approach for lifting the corporate veil

Tim Smith illustrates the growing urgency for businesses to develop a plan in the event of cyber attacks

Peter Vaines …& George Osborne get serious about tax evasion

Recent cases provide clarity but consumers lose out on agency provisions, say Jonathan Butters & Kevin Durkin

Manufacture at your risk, say Dr Anton van Dellen & Sara Wyeth

Practitioners may be allowed to revive cases which might previously have appeared statute barred, say Jolyon Connell & Jeremy Gordon

In the first article of a two-part series Simon Duncan reviews the legal basis for a bank to apply insolvency set-off

Businesses working across jurisdictions will increasingly have to deal with “human rights” issues, says Chris Syder

Peter Vaines wonders whether the meaning of “discovery” is too wide