Selected Articles 2025

In honour of the twelve days of Christmas, we give you the twelve articles of 2025, highlighting cases and developments of general interest this year. Sadly, we do not have ten lords a leaping but we can offer you five Supreme Court justices (who are also lords) leaping on a party who tried to get costs paid in a rapidly depreciating currency and resolving the issue of the currency in which costs should be paid.

1. The EU Seeks to Bring Harmony to Insolvency

2. Recovering the Costs of Funding Litigation: A Modest Proposal

3. When Can a Parent Company Become Liable for Its Subsidiary? And How Might This Affect PE Sponsors?

4. Freeholders Sue to Block the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024

5. Is Dubai enhancing its investor protection for property investments?

6. Third Time Lucky? A Recent Case on Re-opening Judgments

7. A Sea Change in US Corruption Enforcement?

8. Disposing of Claims with Certainty in Arbitration Awards

9. A Cautionary Tale for Arbitration Drafting and Enforcement: Insights from the Deutsche Telekom v. India Enforcement Battle

10. The Proper Currency for Costs: Guidance from the UK Supreme Court

11. Expert Witnesses in the Dock

12. The UK-US Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future