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In the media
Category: Insights
LCIA 2021 annual casework report
LCIA 2021 annual casework report shows a significant majority of users come from outside the UK, choose English law for their cases and have their arbitrations seated in England. […]
Portland Commercial Courts Report 2022
Portland Commercial Courts Report 2022 – includes expert opinion from Legal UK Directors Dame Elizabeth Gloster and Helen Dodds. […]
A round up of London International Disputes Week (LIDW)
Following an engaging week of topics, debate and discussion, we reflect on LIDW 2022. Leading figures in the judiciary, UK Government, and more covered current global issues in dispute resolution, including: sustainability; corporate social, ethical and environmental responsibility; the wellbeing challenges of ‘winning at all costs’; climate change disputes; witness recollection; trade challenges in a […]
The global reach of English Law
What can data science tell us about the role of English law in driving global commerce and the threats and opportunities for Global Britain? There has been growing discussion among legal scholars over the past two decades of an emerging “global community of courts” composed of a network of judicial dialogue across national borders. Improved international travel and new […]
English law is a platform that supports a significant amount of economic activity in the UK and globally
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English law – another great trade for Singapore and the UK
LegalUK’s Helen Dodds has written an article for Singapore’s Business Times about the value of English law. She states that while the ground-breaking UK-Singapore Digital Economy Agreement published on Dec 9 enables these 2 nations to reach across the globe to share valuable information and technology services, there is another, much older, business platform that […]
The case for a rapprochement between law and economics
By Guy Beringer CBE, former chair of UKEF and of the Legal Education Foundation Legal UK recently published a report from Oxera, the economics consultancy, on the economic value of English Law. The Report concluded that English Law provides a business platform which is used at enormous scale but whose value is largely invisible. We […]
LegalUK commissions new research revealing the enormous economic value of English law
Report by Oxera for LegalUK for the first time identifies scale of value of English law as a platform that benefits UK plc and international business. […]
