Some three-quarters of litigants at the Commercial Court come from outside the UK, with 24 per cent come from other European countries and 11 per cent from the Middle East and Africa. | 10yrs

Over 100 Vancouver lawyers are planning to strike in July and August in protest at Legal Aid funding. | 10yrs

Regulatory issues was on the agenda at the second Luxury Law Summit in London last week. | 10yrs

Over two-thirds of company executives responding to an Economist Intelligence Unit study for Clifford Chance expect that risk management will grow in importance by 2016. | 10yrs

Courts in Austria have been unable to deal with a flow of cases that sprang out of the 2008 downturn, leaving thousands of civil cases and even some criminal cases unresolved. | 10yrs

This month's guilty plea from Credit Suisse over helping US tax evaders is leading US investigators to believe that they will be able to track down other wrong-doing Americans throughout the world. | 10yrs

The average size of a large global construction dispute rose from $31.7m to $32.7m in 2013, partly as a result of an increase in joint ventures, according to the latest research from engineering consultancy Arcadis. | 10yrs

The decision of the Supreme Court of Canada that a Fasken Martineau partner can be forced to retire at 65 is being followed by many other LLPs as it is expected to apply to them as well. | 10yrs

GM is said to be overhauling its legal department and its culture in response to the deepening controversy relating to a product recall of millions of cars and a defect linked to 13 deaths. | 10yrs

David Haigh, the former general counsel of Gulf House Finance (GHF) has been arrested and held in custody in Dubai in relation to the GHF's ownership and sale of Leeds United Football Club. | 10yrs

The Legal Daily newspaper in China has said that GlaxoSmithKline failed to pay over US$16m in duties and taxes in relation to its HIV medicines between 2005 and 2008. | 10yrs

White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler is to rejoin Latham & Watkins as a partner in the litigation department and member of the white collar crime team. | 10yrs

The Court of Appeal in London has unblocked the progress of a white collar fraud trial in a case which could give the green light to several similar cases. | 10yrs

BP is appealing a decision by the US Fifth Circuit appeals court in New Orleans in the hope of stopping its bill for the Gulf of Mexico oil leak go up by billions. | 10yrs

Credit Suisse this week became the largest bank since 1999 to plead guilty to a US criminal charge when it agreed to pay US$2.6b in penalties over tax evasion - despite last minute negotiations by its general counsel. | 10yrs

BP has received another court decision against it over the Deepwater Blue 2010 oil spill, seriously limiting its chances of keeping compensation costs below US$7.8b. | 10yrs

The legal department at General Motors is coming under increasing focus in the vehicle safety scandal which has been linked to 13 deaths and for which the company agreed last week to pay a US$35m fine. | 10yrs

A divorce award thought to be the biggest in the world has been handed out in Switzerland, suggesting that the country has taken over from the UK as the forum seen as the most generous. | 10yrs

Malaysia Airlines, whose flight 370 disappeared in March, is involved in a dispute with families of the missing passengers and staff as to whether it 'abandoned' some families to foreign law firms. | 10yrs