The UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment on 23 April 2021 in Burnett or Grant v International Insurance Co of Hanover Ltd [2021] UKSC 12, which arose within the context of a “deliberate acts” ...

Said clients are unlikely to be impressed if a claim is lodged with a reasonable expectation of payment being made but subsequent investigations by the insurer reveal the particular event falls short ...

Contractual arbitration provisions frequently include language that permits the parties to seek injunctive relief from courts under certain circumstances. However, the scope of such "injunction ...

The rule against penalties is rooted in public policy, aiming to prevent contractual provisions that punish the breaching party rather than protecting the interests of the innocent party. The burden ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech ...

The worrying trend is that most of these contracts are of a standard form and the other party is rarely involved in drafting them. Picture an example where Mr X decides to acquire a second-hand car on ...

Welcome to building.co.uk. This site uses cookies. Read our policy. Are exclusion clauses enforceable? Hitherto, the courts have shed little light on the matter, but a recent Court of Appeal decision ...

“A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force.” In other words, Truman, and ...