‘Representative’, ‘class’ or “group” actions allow collective redress in civil litigation in England & Wales, Australia and the United States. However, there are critical differences between the [...]
Third-party funding remains in the spotlight in international arbitration and will come under renewed scrutiny following publication of the draft report of the task force established in 2013 [...]
Balance Legal Capital’s Simon Burnett wrote a piece for International Corporate Rescue last month. The article discusses the use of decision trees in litigation analysis.
The recent case of Essar v Norscot has clarified that an arbitrator’s general power to award costs includes the power to award the costs of third party funding. In so doing, has arbitration [...]
In this part 3 of our series on "Litigation Superforecasting", we discuss the habits of thought honed by Tetlock's superforecasters, and apply them to litigation and arbitration.
This is the second part of a three-part series from Balance Legal Capital on “Litigation Superforecasting”, inspired by a recent book called “Superforecasting – The Art & Science of Prediction” [...]
On the back of Shell’s recent review of its global legal panel, Simon Burnett of Balance Legal Capital examines the dangers of overemphasizing price-related factors in selecting panel firms and [...]