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    Decoding Crypto Crime: Insights from TRM Labs' 2025 Crypto Crime Report

    Decoding Crypto Crime: Insights from TRM Labs' 2025 Crypto Crime Report

    According to TRM Labs’ 2025 Crypto Crime report[1], the global cryptocurrency market showed impressive growth in 2024, with total transaction volumes exceeding USD 10.6 trillion. This marks a 56% increase from 2023[2]. This surge underscores the increasing mainstream ...

    Mediation on Trial: The Legal and Practical Impact of the 2024 Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) Changes

    Introduction: The 1stOctober 2024 (Amendment No.3) (SI 2024 No.839) to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) mark a pivotal shift ...

    Understanding the GDPR and EU AI Act: Key Insights for Businesses

    AI and Data Privacy Compliance To date, the European Union (EU) has implemented two significant legislations impacting ...

    R v Hopley Revisited

    The government recently rejected an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill which would remove the common law ...

    Higgs v Farmor's School: Richard O'Dair Represents Claimant in Landmark Judgment

    The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in the case of Higgs v Farmor's School, marking a win for claimant Kristie ...

    Cryptocurrency Disputes Need Mediation: Cutting Through the Complexity

    Cryptocurrency disputes are unique when compared to other disputes, considering the technology’s complexity, the ...

    Bitcoin Origins: Revolutionising Finance and Value Transfer

    Seventeen years ago, an anonymous individual or group of persons known as Satoshi Nakamoto introduced Bitcoin to the world ...

    Is Mediation in the eye of the beholder? How the United Kingdom and Greece 'regulate' mediation

    In the past decade London has become the Babel of the modern world, with more than a third of Londoners now being foreign ...

    D'Aloia v Persons Unknown - wrong defendant pursued; implications for crypto-exchange liability, legal status of digital currencies

    This article was originally published on Thomson Reuters in November 2024 by Matt Green of Lawrence Stephens, and barrister ...

    Arbitration in England and Wales: A Look Back at 2024 and What to Expect in 2025

    Arbitration, at its core, has always necessitated a delicate balance between flexibility and certainty. In 2024, this ...

    Can Bitcoin help recover bitcoin? Balancing decentralisation and complying with court orders

    This article was originally published on Thomson Reuters in January 2025 by Matt Green of Lawrence Stephens, Brian Mondoh, ...

    Should Mediation Be Mandatory for Sustainability Disputes?

    Picture applying family mediation techniques to solve sustainability conflicts. Dr. Georgina Tsagas recommends the use of ...

    Locking up children under the Children Act 1989 – some thoughts on Clause 10 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

    As government announces further inquiries into the organised rape and sexual assault of children within and outside their ...

    Applications for a Liability Order Enforcing CIL

    This article was originally published in Local Government Lawyer in January 2025.

    ‘I am triggered, therefore I am’: The Psychology of Conflict

    "I think, therefore I am" - in Latin, ‘Cogito, ergo sum - is the "first principle" of the philosophy of the 17th-century ...