Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary - A review for litigators - February 2012
10 February 2012
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:
- The nature of EUAs and remedies for their misappropriation
- Timing problems
- Enforcing an arbitrators' negative declaration
- Stopping foreign proceedings that undermine arbitration
- Mediation agreement not binding
- The power of non-exclusivity
- Piercing the corporate veil is hard, and does not impose contractual obligations
- Ways round an Italian (or Greek) torpedo
- Jurisdiction for a claim on one contract cannot flow from another
- Insolvency has global reach
