Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary - May 2015
6 May 2015
The latest edition of "Contentious Commentary", a newsletter that provides a summary of recent developments in litigation. The newsletter is produced by lawyers in the litigation and dispute resolution practice at Clifford Chance.
This edition covers the following key issues:
- Penalty clauses must not be unconscionable
- No restrictions on exercise of rights under a bond
- Fraud does not unravel a settlement
- Local property law overrules insolvency law
- Reviving original claim on breach of settlement not penal
- Misrepresentation affects tripartite arrangement
- Russian case sent home
- Money laundering is about independently dirty money
- Challenge to the jurisdiction lost through prior steps
