Features

Liisa Lahti asks what is an award creditor looking for in an asset?   

This article sets out some of the key issues that an award creditor faces when seeking to enforce an arbitration award against a State. 

Cuts to the budget are having strange effects.  

When I started as a young pupil I had a kind pupil master who, on days when he was out, used to send me to court with other members of Chambers. 

The Life of Thomas E. Scrutton  

Author: David Foxton 

Publisher: Cambridge University Press 

September 2013 

Hardback £65 

ISBN: 9781107032583 

Andrei Szerard on his decision to leave London life for the fields of deepest Devon.  

It’s now difficult to remember when the idea of leaving the Bar properly crystallised. 

David Wurtzel reviews the January production in Temple Church of T S Eliot’s work.  

2015 is Magna Carta year with its theme of conflict between the king, the law and the Church. 

Frederico Singarajah reports on the recent Brazil-British lawyers’ exchange programme in London.  

Last year, the inaugural British-Brazilian lawyers’ exchange programme took place in London during November and December. 

Sheryn Omeri on the recent decision in Hounga v Allen.  

In the recent Supreme Court decision in Hounga v Allen, the claimant, Miss Hounga, had arrived in the UK on a fraudulent passport which she had used to secure a 6-month visitor’s visa. 

A “Get out of jail free” card? Gerard McMeel explains contractual estoppel.  

As an advocate it is rarely pleasurable to enter the courtroom with one hand tied behind your back. 

Almost three years after the Bribery Act 2010 came into force, a new weapon for UK prosecutors, enshrined in the Crime and Courts Act 2013, came into effect on 24 February 2014, whereby the Serious Fraud Office and the Director of Public Prosecutions picked up the carrot of Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPA) to add to the stick of the Bribery Act.   

DPAs in the US federal system have been used by the Department of Justice in criminal prosecutions and the Securities and Exchange Commission in securities enforcement actions for over 20 years, and this inherently US approach has proved, to a large extent, successful. 

Not without some controversy surrounding it, the Global Law Summit took place in February. Counsel reports back.  

In the autumn of 2013, the General Management Committee of the Bar Council, which includes all the leaders of the publicly funded Bar, endorsed the Bar’s involvement with the February 2015 Global Law Summit (GLS).