International

Does the Foreign Act of State doctrine apply at all when the foreign state itself seeks adjudication? Joseph Dyke & Anastasia Medvedskaya explore a tricky question for the English courts

What could the English court system learn from its counterparts overseas? Philip Sinel runs through some areas for improvement

Ministers have launched a consultation relating to the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments—a key issue for lawyers since Brexit.

The CityUK has published findings from its 11th annual legal services report, ‘Legal excellence, internationally renowned 2022’. 

An order for disclosure of documents can be made against a third party outside the jurisdiction, the Court of Appeal has held.

The arrest and pre-trial detention of Russian lawyer, Dmitry Talantov, president of the Bar Association of the Republic of Udmurtia, has been condemned by the International Bar Association (IBA)

In the last of a three-part series by Collas Crill on Jersey and Guernsey law, Karen Stachura explores restructuring procedures in Jersey and Guernsey

In the second of a three-part series by Collas Crill on Jersey and Guernsey law, James Tee explores options available to victims of fraud in an insolvency context

The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee has published the second report of session 2022-23, entitled ‘The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine’. The report welcomes the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (EC(TE)A 2022), but concludes that the measures do not go far or fast enough and do little to address the fundamental mismatch between the resources of law enforcement agencies and their target

Ping-fat Sze questions whether parties involved in small claims proceedings are fairly treated