Sarah Hannett, Claire Darwin and Zoë Leventhal promoted to the A panel of the Attorney General’s Panels of Junior Counsel
Matrix is delighted to announce that, effective from 1 September 2017, Sarah Hannett, Claire Darwin and Zoë Leventhal have been promoted from the B panel to the A panel of the Attorney General’s Panels of Junior Counsel to the Crown. The appointments will last for a period of five years.
UN General Assembly votes for ICJ advisory opinion on Chagos
In a historic decision, the UN General Assembly has voted, by 94 to 15, to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the Chagos Archipelago. The Chagos Archipelago was excised from the territory of Mauritius by the UK in 1965, including the expulsion of its residents, before Mauritius gained its independence […]
High Court hearing legal challenge to the Government’s implementation of the Dubs amendment
The High Court is hearing a legal challenge to the Government’s implementation of the ‘Dubs amendment’, concerning the resettlement of unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee children from Europe. The Claimant, Help Refugees, argues that the Government’s consultation local authorities regarding the number of children to be resettled from Europe was seriously defective; that the Government […]
Andrew Smith published in World Sports Advocate – “Recent jurisprudence on ‘just cause’ contract termination”
Andrew Smith has written an article entitled “Recent jurisprudence on ‘just cause’ contract termination” for World Sports Advocate. In this article Andrew considers several recent decisions of the Court of Arbitration for Sport concerning unilateral terminations of contracts, with a particular focus on the following issues: What is regarded as a ‘termination’ of the employment contract?; What […]
‘Dispute Resolution and Climate Change: The Paris Agreement and Beyond’, new e-book by the ICC has now been published
Matrix is pleased to announce that the ICC e-book, ‘Dispute Resolution and Climate Change: The Paris Agreement and Beyond’, has now been published. This publication brings together articles from 18 international dispute resolution lawyers who explore ways in which climate change issues may be factored into existing processes and systems of international dispute resolution, in […]