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Disclosure & Costs Banks are facing an increasing amount of litigation in the current economic climate and their conduct is being increasingly scrutinised. Customers are questioning their conduct more readily and it has become even more crucial that the banking and finance sector appear to be behaving fairly. The recent case of Timothy Duncan Earles […]

Lehmans Fallout: The Pitfalls of suing European nationals in the English Courts The current economic climate has led to an increase in litigation between banks and private individuals. A number of institutions are now having to sue clients who have become unable to meet their repayment obligations and banks are also facing a rising tide […]

Lord Hoffmann has spent his career clarifying difficult areas of the law. On the centrally important question of how to interpret or construe a document his judgment in Investors Compensation Scheme v West Bromwich Building Society is the key authority. He explained that the role of the court is to discover the meaning which the […]