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Advocate General opinion: no legal professional privilege for in-house lawyers in EU competition investigations
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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- European Union
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- June 7 2010
In the EU competition law context, the Advocate General's opinion in Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd v Commission of the European Communities (Akzo) was published on 29 April 2010
Supreme Court rules that contract exists despite "subject to contract" provision
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- March 31 2010
A case involving the impact of a counterparts clause in a draft agreement has gone all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled that a contract existed
Court of Appeal rules on duty to mitigate loss
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- March 31 2010
In Lombard North Central Plc v Automobile World (UK) Ltd 2010 EWCA Civ 20, the Court of Appeal addressed the important issue of a party's duty to mitigate its loss
Parties cannot avoid Commercial Agents Regulations by choice of non-EU law and arbitration
- Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- January 29 2010
In Accentuate v Asigra 2009 EWHC 2655 (QB) the English High Court held it had jurisdiction to hear a claim for compensation under the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993, even though the relevant agreement was subject to a choice of Canadian law and arbitration and the Canadian arbitral tribunal had already ruled against the claim
