As the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup has now faded into the sunset, it is time to look at how women’s football came to be, in the United Kingdom (‟UK”) (England & Wales), and how it evolved, since its inception. What is it like, now? And where it is going? Does it have potential? If…
On 4 July 2023, I attended the LCIA’s Paris-based breakfast seminar entitled ‟The arbitration act 1996 review: part two”. After croissants and coffee, the members of the panel – who counted Nathan Tamblyn, a law professor who recently joined the Law commission – launched into an animated discussion on where proceedings stand, in terms of…
While reviewing various daily articles about the podcasting industry, I recently came across the podcast series ‟The Unfiltered History Tour with VICE World News”. This series broadcasts ‟stories of disputed artefacts, as told by people from their homelands” (sic), in relation to artefacts held/stored at the British Museum in London, in the United Kingdom (‟UK”).…
After a one-year transitional period for agreements concluded before 1 June 2022 to be brought in line with the new vertical block exemption regimes, applicable in the European Union and the United Kingdom, it is time to take stock. What are the main changes in the new EU regulations, affecting vertical agreements? How do the…
This protracted legal saga is a scathing example of how arbitration proceedings, and subsequent arbitral awards, can be derailed and gutted out of their substance and power, when elementary conditions and basic steps were not complied with and met, by the parties to such arbitration proceedings, at the outset. These cracks in the fragile ‟arbitration…
