This week's edition of Dispute Resolution weekly highlights includes analysis of a number of key DR developments and key judicial decisions including the Civil Procedure Rule Committee minutes of 7 February 2025 and the Court of Appeal decision in Servis-Terminal Llc v Drelle (cross-border enforcement); dates for your diary; details of our most recently published content; and other information of general interest to dispute resolution practitioners.

This week's edition of Construction weekly highlights includes a Court of Appeal decision in which the court considered the interpretation of a contractual notice provision (Drax v Scottish Power), a case in which the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) considered a project company’s entitlement to claim certain costs on a retrospective basis under a PFI agreement (Pevensey v Environment Agency), publication of the April 2024 construction update by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC), and comments from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) on the general election manifestos of various political parties.

This week's edition of Dispute Resolution weekly highlights includes analysis of a number of key DR developments and key judicial decisions including HM Courts & Tribunals Service’s updated guidance on the Damages Claims pilot scheme under CPR PD 51ZB and the Court of Appeal decision in Barrowfen Properties Ltd v Patel (damages); dates for your diary; details of our most recently published content; and other information of general interest to dispute resolution practitioners.

A Notice of Adjudication is the first step in commencing an adjudication. This Practice Note sets out what to consider before serving the Notice of Adjudication, why it must be given and what it should contain. It also provides guidance on the timing of the Notice, how it should be given and whether it can be revised. For a Precedent Notice of Adjudication, see: Notice of Adjudication. What is the Notice of Adjudication? Both the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (HGCRA 1996) and the Scheme for Construction Contracts provide for the service of a written notice of a party’s intention to refer a dispute to adjudication. The Scheme for Construction Contracts (Part I, para 1) refers to this as the ‘notice of adjudication’. The same terminology is used in this Practice Note, although the notice may also be referred to in case law or by other parties as the ‘notice of intention to seek adjudication’, ‘notice of intention to refer to adjudication’ or the ‘adjudication notice’. It should be distinguished from the ‘Referral Notice’, which

This Practice Note on the civil economic tort of unlawful means conspiracy identifies the key elements of the tort: a combination or concerted action, use of unlawful means, knowledge of the unlawfulness, intention to injure the claimant, an overt act in pursuance of the agreement and resulting damage. For guidance on civil conspiracy claims more generally (and the distinction between lawful and unlawful means conspiracy) and guidance on pleading and evidencing such claims, see Practice Notes: • Civil conspiracy claims (economic tort) • Lawful means conspiracy (civil action) Unlawful means conspiracy is a civil cause of action (it is known as one of the ‘economic torts’) providing a potential remedy for those suffering financial (economic) damage as a result of the defendant’s actions. It requires the claimant to satisfy a number of key requirements in order to establish such a claim. For general guidance on the economic tort claims see: The economic torts—overview. For a comparison table identifying the key distinguishing features between the various economic torts, see Practice Note: Conspiracy, unlawful interference

Updated in April 2026 Introduction Türkiye has been at the centre of the global political scene as a result of its position in the Syrian war in the south of the country and its refugee policies. The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak had a major effect on both the internal policies and the economy in Türkiye as in other countries across the world. The Mediterranean geopolitics related issues in the pursuit of natural gas remained as a hot topic. The economy has gone through a recession period since the last quarter of 2018, due to the attempted coup d’état that took place on 15 July 2016, characterised by high inflation rates, rising borrowing costs, and currency volatility. Although in 2020 the coronavirus outbreak affected the economic forecasts, Türkiye countered the negative effects by the Economic Stability Shield program announced on 18 March 2020, introducing supportive and preventive measures applicable countrywide to degrade economic impacts

Banking & Finance analysis: This News Analysis provides a summary of the cases we have alerted in Banking & Finance for June 2026.

This week's edition of Arbitration weekly highlights includes: coverage of arbitration-related decisions from England, Netherlands and Singapore; updates from the LCAM and JAMS; and coverage of the White & Case and QMUL 2025 International Arbitration Survey report. All this, and more, in our weekly highlights.

Sanctions are intended to have a serious effect on the individuals, organisations and regimes they target. There is therefore a corresponding risk that sanctions targets may seek to circumvent the effect of sanctions. Understanding the risks of being involved in sanctions evasion and the warning signs and red flags to look out for should be a key part of your screening process. Failure to identify and manage red flags could expose you to criminal sanctions and/or regulatory and government fines. The methods used to evade sanctions are generally complex and sophisticated. You are unlikely to be dealing with a direct sanctions target, who could be identified through screening relevant sanctions lists, so you will need to be thorough with your due diligence investigations to determine whether a particular transaction would breach sanctions. If red flags are raised at any point in your due diligence, you need to get to the bottom of them. This Practice Note considers the risks to your organisation of being involved in sanctions evasion. It suggests good practices you

This Practice Note examines the special status of individuals who are members of the reserve forces, and the rights and obligations that employers have in respect of such individuals. It considers which forces comprise the reserve forces, training commitments of reservists, calling out or mobilisation of reservists, when the reservist or employer can apply for exemption from, or deferral or revocation of, mobilisation, employer incentive payments and financial assistance for employers, reservists and the self-employed. It goes on to consider a reservist’s right to reinstatement, protection from dismissal and detriment, and protection from less favourable treatment as a part-time worker. What is a military reservist? There are two main types of reservist: • volunteer reservists: civilians recruited into any of the four volunteer reserve forces (VRF)—the Royal Naval Reserve, the Royal Marines Reserve, the Army Reserve (formerly known as the Territorial Army), and the Royal Auxiliary Air Force. Reservists engage for a period of three years at which point they need to re-engage if they wish to remain members of the VRF • ex-regular reservists: former members of the regular forces

The global commodities market The global commodities market covers a wide range of products, which are traditionally divided into hard and soft commodities: • 'soft commodities'—generally refer to harvested products such as wheat, sugar, cocoa, soy beans or corn • 'hard commodities'—refer to extracted products such as precious or base metals, rubber or energy products such as oil Global commodities markets work to standard measurements, such as deliverable grades and standard pricing by weight, which allows participants to buy commodities unseen, safe in the knowledge that they are certified to the recognised standard. What are commodity derivatives? Commodity derivatives are financial instruments which take their value from the underlying price of a traded commodity and require payments to be made or products delivered based on the movement of that price. They can be traded ‘over-the-counter’ or on exchange. See Practice Note: The nature of financial derivatives—Over-the-counter or exchange traded derivatives. Commodity derivatives allow investors to invest in commodities without actually owning the underlying physical commodities they represent. Similar to other financial derivative products, commodity derivatives

This Practice Note sets out key cases concerning whether there is a dispute capable of referral to adjudication—including whether the dispute has crystallised, is a single dispute, or has been previously determined or settled. We recommend first referring to Practice Note: Adjudication—is there a ‘dispute’?, which explains the relevant principles. Crystallised dispute For guidance on the requirement that a dispute must have crystallised, see Practice Note: Adjudication—is there a ‘dispute’? (Crystallised dispute). Guiding principles Case law setting out general guidelines or summaries of the law includes the following: The seven guiding propositions on what a crystallised dispute encompasses were set out by the court in AMEC v Secretary for Transport: '1. The word “dispute” which occurs in many arbitration clauses and also in s 108 of the Housing Grants Act should be given its normal meaning. It does not have some special or unusual meaning conferred upon it by lawyers. 2. Despite the simple meaning of the word “dispute”, there has been much litigation over the years as to whether or not disputes existed in particular