Issue: Vol 162, Issue 7504

Katherine Rees looks at three recent cases in which parties have sought “mercy” from the court

In the first of three articles Margaret Tofalides & Clare Arthurs discuss arbitration challenges

Merchant International Co Ltd v Natsionalna Aktsionerna Kompaniia “Naftogaz Ukrayiny” [2012] EWCA Civ 196, [2012] All ER (D) 13 (Mar)

Performing Rights Society Ltd v Burns and another [2012] EWHC 221 (Ch), [2012] All ER (D) 05 (Mar)

Dunn v Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management UKEAT/0531/10/DA, [2012] All ER (D) 173 (Feb)

MacLennan v Hartford Europe Ltd [2012] EWHC 346 (QB), [2012] All ER (D) 175 (Feb)

University of Queensland and another v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks [2012] EWHC 223 (Pat), [2012] All ER (D) 178 (Feb)

Adeeko v Solicitors Regulation Authority [2012] All ER (D) 21 (Mar)

Re Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration) [2012] UKSC 6, [2012] All ER (D) 193 (Feb)

Jennifer James reviews life on the legal treadmill