Two important issues affecting you

Privacy and confidentiality are essential features of English arbitrations. It might come as a surprise to know that there are exceptions to the principle of confidentiality as reaffirmed recently by the Court of Appeal in Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v Emmott.
 
Read our analysis of the Court's decision and consider the action points when deciding whether to enter into an arbitration agreement.
 
The Court of Appeal has reversed an earlier court decision which refused to allow a party to rely on an exclusion clause. We have looked at why the Court of Appeal overturned the earlier decision and what it had to say about how an exclusion clause can be rescued by removing unreasonable sections.

Read our expert analysis of the case.