This blog discusses the effects of UK and EU sanctions and their impact upon litigation involving Russian companies in light of the High Court’s decision in Maroil Trading Inc and others v Burford Capital (UK) Limited and another.
REUTERS | Jason Lee
October 12, 2022
Russian sanctions: what’s a litigant to do?
REUTERS | Darren Staples
October 5, 2022
Catch me if you can: new gateway for serving third party information claims out of the jurisdiction will help unravel complex frauds
Amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR) from 1 October 2022 mean that it should become more straightforward to seek information orders against non-parties to litigation located outside England and Wales.
REUTERS | Carlos Barria
September 28, 2022
Pilot no more: the (permanent) new disclosure world in the Business and Property Courts
Few procedural changes have kept lawyers as interested as the continuing fine-tuning of the Disclosure Pilot Scheme under PD 51U, which will become a permanent fixture of the CPR as the brand new PD 57AD from 1 October 2022.
So, where are we now? In essence, we have come to the end of the iterative process where the Disclosure Working Group was seeking continuous feedback from users on the disclosure rules. Here, we take a look at the final changes which will be coming into force next month.
