In R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (a) held that the UK Government had no prerogative power to initiate the formal process whereby the UK will withdraw from the EU and (b) declined to recognise any requirement that the...

The Supreme Court’s approach to equity exerts a decisive influence on legislative developments. There is considerable controversy surrounding the judicial use of equitable principles to deny statutory relief. Of equal concern is that courts engage in interest balancing, or policy-making, that...

A company voluntary arrangement ('CVA') under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 ('IA') is a statutory contract into which terms may be implied on ordinary contractual principles. Although some cases proclaim that the court has no power to vary the terms of a CVA or authorise a breach of the CVA...

This working paper is the precursor to a chapter I am writing for an edited collection on substantive judicial review. In this working paper, I argue against the two dominant schools of thought in this area, according to which substantive review is either bifurcated (by reference to the...

Finally, an analysis of the present situation in EU gambling and sport betting after the recent ECJ decisions will be attempted, via scenarios from primary (national MS practices, policies, and case law) and secondary (Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, 2006; European Gaming and Betting...

Just as AI enables computers to perform increasingly complex tasks, it, however, also raises a host of novel issues at its intersection with the law, including issues for litigants in patent infringement suits. The investment in AI technologies likely will lead to an increase in AI-related...

Directors owe fiduciary duties of care and loyalty to their corporations, and by extension to their shareholders. When a corporation approaches or enters insolvency, however, courts have recently found that the fiduciary duty calculus may change. Recognizing that creditors have financial...

The practice of circuit riding by Supreme Court Justices is a concept as old as the federal judiciary itself, and has a storied history that spans the first 120 years of this nation's history. Yet the practice is also one of the least explored aspects of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and has been...

This book analyzes the scope of judicial authority and discretion to recognize the equitable doctrine of unclean hands as a bar to actions seeking damages in the United States. Bringing an American perspective to the contentious conversation about law – equity fusion in other countries of the...