Clifford Chance
Contentious Commentary - December 2013
12 December 2013
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:
- Time for filing court budgets strictly enforced
- Contractual clause struck down as a penalty
- Tax on bank compensation interest
- Contractual and court service are not the same
- International element for Brussels I to apply easily satisfied
- Consumers can sue at home when shopping abroad
- Lis alibi pendens limited
- No privilege in client care
- Those challenging arbitrators' jurisdiction can choose when to fight
- Narrow construction ensures one-stop jurisdictional shopping
- One tortfeasor excused by settlement with another tortfeasor
- Issues of fact may be issues of law for appeal purposes
- No entitlement to know if your opponent is good for the money
