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Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants | Cyprus, United Kingdom | 18 Jul 2023
Tulip Trading Ltd v Bitcoin Association: Common Law developments & implications for cryptoassets and software developers
The case of Tulip Trading Ltd (a Seychelles Company) v Bitcoin Association for BSV and others [2023] 4 W.L.R. 16 (“Tulip Trading”), recently heard by…
Miller Thomson LLP | Canada | 2 May 2023
Recognizing and enforcing foreign judgments in Alberta
In our increasingly global community, disputes often do not adhere to traditional jurisdictional boundaries. The same holds true for the enforcement…
Gan Partnership | Malaysia | 21 Mar 2023
Federal Court sheds light on evidential requirements in enforcement of non-REJA foreign judgments
Evidential requirements in enforcing a foreign judgment have commonly been overlooked. This should no longer be the case, as the Federal Court has confirmed that non-compliance is no mere technical irregularity, but a fundamental evidentiary shortcoming. Foreign judgment creditors are now implored to take heed of the Federal Court's decision, lest a judgment obtained after a hard-fought legal......
López-Ibor Abogados | Spain | 18 Jan 2023
Should you use English law in a Spanish M&A contract?
🕑 5 minutes The stronger party to an M&A contract with a Spanish element will often select, or somehow impose, English or New York law as the governing law. It is fair to say that English law offers predictable solutions in contractual disputes between parties of equal bargaining power and admits little or no limitations on freedom to contract. However, in the real world, this use of common......
Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP | Canada | 28 Nov 2022
Supreme Court revisits test for constructive taking of private property
On October 21, 2022, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decision in Annapolis Group Inc. v. Halifax Regional Municipality, which revisited the…
Fasken | Canada | 24 Nov 2022
Comments on Annapolis Group Inc. v Halifax Regional Municipality, 2022 SCC 36 - A Step In The Right Direction For Owners Who Want to Demonstrate Disguised Expropriations
On October 21, 2022 the Supreme Court of Canada ("SCC") rendered its decision in Annapolis Group Inc. v. Halifax Regional Municipality 1 (”the…
Lexology PRO | United Kingdom | 10 Nov 2022
FMLC champions common law to develop “third category of property” for digital assets
The Financial Markets Law Committee, an influential City body, has urged the Law Commission to go the common law route to create a “third category of property” to cover digital assets, rather than relying on a statutory creation.
Cordato Partners | Australia | 14 Feb 2022
It’s the captain’s call to confine a person to a cabin on a cruise ship
Half-way through a 10 day cruise around islands in the Pacific, an 18 year old female was the victim of a sexual assault. Shortly afterwards, a male…
Macfarlanes LLP | United Kingdom | 16 Nov 2021
When are assets “UK assets”?
In the recent case of Partington v Rossiter [2021] EWCA Civ 1564 the Court of Appeal found that a reference to “UK assets” in a will could, in…
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP | United Kingdom | 20 Oct 2021
Terminating technology contracts: some welcome guidance
Whether to terminate of a complex agreement for material and/or repudiatory breach is a common and yet difficult decision to make as a…
