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Contact: ESV Chartered Accountants (New South Wales, Australia)On 30 January 2012, the new Personal Property Securities Act (PPSA) came into force. The Act dramatically alters the way security is taken over personal prop ...

By: Mark S. Thomas & Robert W. ShawWillams Mullen (North Carolina and Virginia, USA)The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has affirmed a trial judgment against a class of former employees of Abbott Laborator ...

By: Monica McCarroll & John B. SwingleWilliams Mullen (North Carolina and Virginia, USA) Chief Judge Rader of the Federal Circuit caused quite a stir among both the patent and eDiscovery bars when he unveiled a new Model ...

By: David RintoulClarkslegal LLP (Reading, England) Jurisdictional challenges are the order of the day in adjudications. These jurisdictional questions can be a hard fought issues running parallel with the Adjudicator’ ...

By: Claire LeyshonClarkslegal LLP (Reading, England) The vexed question as to the extent of a guarantor’s continued liability for a tenant proposing to assign its lease finally came before the Court of Appeal in K/S Vi ...

By: Rachel KrolClarkslegal LLP (Reading, England) The UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Regime started on 1 January 2007 and we have previously posted a paper on the workings of REITs and their benefits for various ...