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Arbitrator’s duty of disclosure in Brazil—the STJ view (Engie v Orion)
Arbitration analysis: Brazil’s Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) upheld the annulment of an arbitral award following a co-arbitrator’s failure to disclose prior professional dealings with counsel. It held that subsequent disclosure and the public availability of the information did not cure the omission, and that reasonable objective doubt, rather...
Court of Appeal considers Child Focused Courts (previously ‘Pathfinder’) (Re C (Child Arrangements Orders; Domestic Abuse; Child Focused Court))
Family analysis: In its first decision concerning the Child Focused Courts model, the Court of Appeal upheld orders for limited supervised direct contact despite admitted domestic abuse and Cafcass Cymru’s recommendation that direct contact cease. The model changes procedure, but preserves the substantive welfare framework, procedural fairness and...
Home Office publishes policy guidance on three new refugee sponsorship routes
The Home Office has published various new policy documents on the named community sponsorship, refugee study and refugee work routes. The routes will provide sponsorship-based pathways for refugees overseas to come to the UK, alongside the UK Resettlement Scheme. They form part of the government’s plans to make sponsorship the principal framework...
European Parliament publishes briefing on combating online fraud in the EU
The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has published a briefing examining online fraud, which it identifies as one of the fastest-growing areas of organised crime, fuelled by automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and crime-as-a-service. Drawing on research published by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) in 2026,...
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