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When a Settlement Agreement May Unsettle Everything 
Manifold are the functions of law; one of the functions of law practitioners is to guide their clients in their best interests bearing in mind that clients know their cases...Read more

Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
The Challenge of Integration of Regulation: Sub-sets of Financial Services

This article will look at the growth of regulation in the financial services industry in the EU. It will show how from fragmentation, there has been a move towards integration...Read more

Solomon Osagie
Chief Legal Counsel, TSYS International, UK
CAPE DISTRIBUTION LTD v CAPE INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS PLC
How a Parent Company May be Held Liable in Torts for the Negligence of its Subsidiaries

Interestingly enough, despite the fact that over the years the English Courts have handed down a considerable number of judgments on the issue of the extent of liabilities that a...Read more

Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK

Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute , UK
IACCM Contracting Principles
Whether you are a customer or a supplier, Speed to Contract (“S2C”) produces benefits. The faster parties come to “yes,” the sooner critical products or services can drive a customer’s...Read more

Sally Hughes
Chief Executive Officer, IACCM - International Association for Contract and Commercial Management, UK
Artificial Intelligence: A (semi-intelligent) Overview
‘Artificial Intelligence’ or ‘AI’. A phrase/acronym that is often bandied around but do we truly understand it? Can we? What was once nothing but science fiction is already a reality...Read more

Hersh Malhotra
Senior Legal Counsel, eBay, UK
Open Source, IP and Patent Pledges:
This article considers the use of patent promises or pledges, as a device to counter what are often seen in the Open Source world as undesirable consequences of the operation...Read more

Amanda Brock
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield, UK
Using Software to Fix Problems with the Software Supply Chain
As a young software lawyer, I simply accepted things as they were. I learned about software licenses, warranties, intellectual property indemnities and audit provisions. I tried to understand the nuances...Read more

Daniel Sanders
Senior Director, Legal, Flexera, UK
Letting Lawyers be Lawyers: Principles of Legal Value Optimization

Many legal futurologists proclaim the coming of a dystopian world for lawyers. In this world, the rise of automation requires the fall of lawyers. We are more optimistic, and see...Read more

Paul Daly
Co-Founder and Legal Academic, Navigate.legal and University of Cambridge, UK
Exclusion of Liability for 'Consequential Loss'
One of the first things that most lawyers learn when they enter the real world of commercial transactions is that liability for “consequential losses” is to be excluded under all...Read more
Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
Innovation and Litigation
I have been very fortunate in my career to work with innovative and interesting people, including clients and contacts from different industry sectors around the world and many colleagues and...Read more

Mary Shields
Head of Legal Europe, Sensata Technologies Inc, UK