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Choosing Your Arbitration Tribunal – London Arbitration Week 2025 Choosing Your Arbitration Tribunal - London Arbitration Week 2025

This podcast is a recording of the 4 New Square Chambers panel discussion, ‘Choosing Your Arbitration Tribunal’, from London Arbitration Week 2025. The panel discuss the practical and strategic considerations involved in

Allied Maples at Thirty: Allied Maples v Simmons & Simmons

Thirty years on from the landmark decision in Allied Maples v Simmons & Simmons, Sir Rupert Jackson, Roger Stewart KC, and Hugh Evans reflect on its lasting impact on professional negligence law and the application of it

New Representative Actions: Litigation Funding, Costs, and Court Decisions

4 New Square Chambers’ George McDonald and Matt Waszak explore new representative actions and the complex interplay between litigation funding and class actions, addressing the legal challenges that arise. They emphasise

Claims in the Cat - An analysis of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) and key cost-related issues

In this latest episode in our costs and litigation funding mini-series, 4 New Square Chambers’ Nicholas Bacon KC, George McDonald, and Ben Smiley provide an authoritative analysis of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT)

Security for costs

In this episode of our costs and litigation funding mini-series, Roger Mallalieu KC, Hugh Evans, and Ben Smiley examine security for costs. They discuss the fundamental principles and offer top tips for successfully maki

Costs & Litigation Funding Update: Issues in Group Litigation

In the second episode of our costs and litigation funding mini-series, 4 New Square Chambers’ Benjamin Williams KC and Theo Barclay discuss the complexities of costs in group litigation. They discuss the distinction betw

The Fallout from Paccar The Fallout from Paccar

Join 4 New Square Chambers’ Robert Marven KC, Pippa Manby, and Theo Barclay as they launch our mini-series on costs and litigation funding. In this opening episode, the team delves into the repercussions of the Supreme C

What is, or is not a SLAPP? An Examination of the SRA Guidance and its Ramifications

In this podcast episode, 4 New Square Chambers Barristers Clare Dixon KC and Ben Smiley explore the SRA’s guidance on SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation), the implications for litigation conduct and

What you need to know about audit

In this latest episode of our back to basics Conversations in Professional Liability series, Helen Evans KC, Marie-Claire O’Kane and Will Cook explain all you need to know about audit, discuss key judgments and legal dev

Conversations in Professional Liability: What you need to know about wasted costs What you need to know about wasted costs

In this latest episode of our back to basics Conversations in Professional Liability series, barristers Amanda Savage KC, Paul Parker and Ben Smiley discuss all you need to know about applications for wasted costs; what

Conversations in Professional Liability Episode 2: What you need to know about costs in professional liability work What you need to know about costs in professional negligence work

In this latest episode of our Conversations in Professional Liability series, barristers Hugh Evans, Stephen Innes and Matt Waszak look at some of the key points and topics related to costs from the perspective of a prof

Duty of care in contractual chains; have we reached a consensus?

What you need to know about solicitor's minimum term insurance

In this first episode of our new series, Conversations in Professional Liability, barristers Jamie Smith KC, Clare Dixon KC and Anthony Jones explain the insurance cover solicitors are required to obtain (minimum term in

Tim Chelmick and Hannah Daly to speak at ThoughtLeaders4 Webinar

4 New Square Chambers' Tim Chelmick and Hannah Daly will join Andrew James of PCB Byrne in a webinar hosted by ThoughtLeaders4 Disputes on 4th November 2022. The October 2022 amendments to the Civil Procedure rules have

When Tax Schemes go Sour

In this podcast episode, barristers Paul Mitchell KC and Ben Smiley focus on the position of professionals who recommend tax avoidance or mitigation schemes or who adapt the contractual documentation necessary to give ef

Aggregation in Professional Indemnity Insurance Policies

In this podcast episode, barristers David Halpern KC and Ben Elkington KC address aggregation clauses, when two or more claims are treated as a single claim, in professional liability insurance policies including solicit

Dishonest Professionals: Recent Developments

The litigation of civil fraud claims is on the rise, with the Commercial Court consistently reporting this as an area of growth over the last three years. In this podcast, Tim Chelmick and Hannah Daly examine recent deve

Double Trouble: recent developments in limitation

In this podcast episode on limitation, Helen Evans KC and John Williams will cover four core topics; section 32 of the Limitation Act, the law on repeated breaches by professionals, the niche but important issue of when

Professional indemnity insurance: Europools v RSA

Euro Pools v RSA is the first case in 10 years in which the Court of Appeal has considered the important topic of notifications and attachment of claims in professional indemnity insurance. The speakers for this podcast

Reflective loss following Marex v. Sevilleja

Where a wrong is caused to a company, do its shareholders also suffer a loss? Can a shareholder sue for his own loss, where it “reflects” the company’s loss? What if the company can’t or won’t sue? These thorny issues ha