Procedure: A right royal dispute

David Sawtell reports on a recent case concerning a steadfast notice of discontinuance ‘A waiver of sovereign immunity by submission to the jurisdiction of the court must be irrevocable. It cannot be partial or temporary: it must continue until the proceedings have run their course.’ The story began on 20 September 1948, in the year …
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Injunctions: Liverpool FC: own goal?

Andrew Waters highlights the lessons to be learned from RBS v Hicks & Gillett ‘Where an interim injunction is to be mandatory in effect, more stringent conditions are applied by the court because the risk of harm to the innocent party, should the injunction be wrongly granted, is considered to be greater than if the …
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