Editorials

With Japanese businesses sitting on more than $900 billion dollars in cash, analysts expect a “spending spree” as Japanese companies target new acquisitions abroad. The European […]

The Rule of Law. Like democracy, the phrase is much used by politicians when they are trying to assume the role of a statesman rather than […]

English criminal law has recently been working overtime. As Extinction Rebellion protests have disrupted everyday life at multiple locations, well over 1000 people have been arrested […]

It is more than ten years since Richard Susskind completed his provocative work, The End of Lawyers? He was right to end the title with a […]

New laws in small countries rarely make big headlines.

Commercial disputes arise as an inevitable consequence of globalisation. Internationally, they have continued to grow in number as a direct result of increased cross-border activity. Those […]

Nick Clegg to face questions in ENRC Court action

It is thirty years since my first visit to Singapore. At the time, I had no idea that within a decade I would be managing a […]

The ongoing globalization of markets and the ease to reach consumers online, has resulted in more and more trademarks being filed to take advantage of commercial […]

Sir David Green is an honourable man. That much was confirmed last December when the former Director of the Serious Fraud Office was knighted by the […]

The link between crime and poverty, particularly urban poverty, was established long ago. Anxious about the impact of a ‘criminal class’, the Victorians set about examining […]

Every summer, the American Lawyer publishes a Diversity Scorecard “to provide a snapshot of where the industry is headed.” It records the number of full-time minority […]