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    Bitcoin Origins: Revolutionising Finance and Value Transfer

    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 through a white paper titled: “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”.[1] This paper laid the groundwork for a technology that would ...

    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 ...

    Workplace Bullying: How to spot it, its connection to the 'S' of ESG, and what to do about it

    The ‘Big Quit’ or otherwise termed ‘The Great Resignation’ has been reported by the media and latest research to be the ...

    Breaking the Ice: A New Era for Statutory Acquiescence in Trade Mark Law

    In the recent case of Industrial Cleaning Equipment (Southampton) Ltd v Intelligent Cleaning Equipment Holdings Co Ltd and ...

    Net-Zero Disputes: Aspiration or Inspiration?

    During the Singapore Convention Week on Mediation 2024 organised and hosted by the Ministry of Law, Singapore and the ...

    Credit Hire and Comprehensive Insurance

    In my years of practice, I have frequently noted that it is argued that if a claimant is entitled to a courtesy vehicle from ...

    Haycocks v ADP: Analysing the Scope of Redundancy Consultation

    The Court of Appeal in October handed down its judgment in ADP RPO Limited v Haycocks, rejecting the Employment Appeal ...

    The Overcomplication of the 'Communication to Public' Right in Copyright Law

    Kitchen J describes the emergence of the current ‘communication to public’ right in Copyright Designs and Patents Act ...