How financial advisers can stay out of the focused advice trapSince the Retail Distribution Review put paid to advisers living off product provider commission, ma… Read More
Financial services compliance training – remote v face-to-face at the “end” of the pandemicSetting the remote scene I have been doing remote compliance training since March 2020. I rather … Read More
Pension Transfers – oh dearIt is difficult for me to know how to respond to the FCA’s consultation on doing a drains up review … Read More
Pension misselling scams- when will they ever end? – Page, Henderson, Freer and Ward X 2The 308 pages of the Upper Tribunal’s decision in the ghastly references brought by Andrew Page, Aid… Read More
2023 – the centenary of the Geneva ProtocolNext year marks the centenary of an event largely ignored at the time and almost forgotten about now… Read More
Include a choice of law to govern the arbitration clause – after the UK Supreme Court’s decisions in Kabab-Ji and ChubbThe Supreme Court in its Kabab-Ji decision emphasised the importance of lawyers agreeing on the law … Read More
Insolvency and English arbitration law – a quick reminderFinancial Conduct Authority v Carillion Plc [2021] EWHC 2871 (Ch) reminds arbitration lawyers that s… Read More
The FCA does not need the court’s permission to start enforcement action for breach of the listing rules and market abuse against an insolvent companyFinancial Conduct Authority v Carillion Plc [2021] EWHC 2871 (Ch) decides that since enforcement act… Read More
An unusual review of Roebuck, Markless and Boorman’s “Arbitration in the Long 18th Century”My bi-monthly column for Alternatives contains the first part of a slightly unusual essay I have wri… Read More
The US Supreme Court and the minimalist interpretation of Article II of the New York Arbitration ConventionIn an unusual sighting in 2020, Justice Thomas wrote a pretty good judgement for the whole court, ex… Read More
