This note considers the decision of the Irish High Court in Re Prendiville (1992) which dealt with the enforcement of half-secret trusts. It confirms, in a case where the point arose for decision, that Irish law rejects “the prior acceptance rule” favoured in the English cases. The judgment...

English law has clarified the scope of legal advice privilege ('attorney-client privilege') and confirmed that only lawyers and not, for example, accountants, can give such privileged legal advice and support. There are sound reasons for sustaining this clear rule. First, confining this...

Catastrophes including the COVID19 pandemic of 2019-2020 impose great financial stress on consumers. This op-ed proposes the distribution of economic relief directly to consumers by authorizing credit card issuers to bill Congress for portions of the interest that otherwise would be charged to...

The paper analyses 19760/70s inflation, the replacement of Keynesian with neo-liberal economic policy, and the post-1979 decline in inflation. It is shown that the fall in inflation is explained by trends in import prices rather than by switches in economic policy. However, New Labour's...

The Three and a Half Minute Transaction: Boilerplate and the Limits of Contractual Design, by Mitu Gulati and Robert E. Scott, is a cautionary tale about modern legal practice where the protagonist is the standard sovereign debt contract. The book discloses an undeniable flaw in sovereign bond...

Impact assessment (IA) of all major European Union (EU) policies is now mandatory. The form of IA used has been criticised for favouring corporate interests by overemphasising economic impacts and failing to adequately assess health impacts. Our study sought to assess how, why, and in what ways...

This paper consists in the “Lens of London” documentary which is created by Queen Mary students of Intellectual Property Law under the US jurisdiction. The focus of this paper are the issues such as: what is a performer, who owns the copyright of the work, credit and pre-existing work...

With the upcoming extended deadline for the Brexit, UK political leadership has a major decision to make; How would the London Financial Hub will operate after Brexit? Still being unable to finalise an Agreement with the EU and its member states, UK is being pressured internally for a no-deal...

Climate regulation of the electricity sector is one of the most important growing — and rapidly changing — areas of law and policy today. This is both because of the critical role that electricity plays in modern society, acting as economic lifeblood, and because of electricity's part in...

In this document, we respond to the UK's HM Treasury’s Future Financial Services Regulatory Regime for Cryptoassets Consultation Call. In particular, we focus on the provisions relating to cryptoasset trading venues and cryptoasset custodians. We welcome the HMT’s view that cryptoasset...