Articles in ‘Dispute Resolution’ Category

Picture the scenario, you are looking for new financial or energy deal, for ease you appoint a broker to find the best product on the market. This is common place, but has your broker…

Since 2020 the awareness of cryptocurrency has continued to increase. In June 2021, consumer research by the Financial Conduct Authority suggested that 78% of adults in the UK have now heard of cryptocurrencies and…

About Chloe Chloe joined RWK Goodman in 2021. Prior to joining, Chloe trained with a top 200 law firm, qualifying into their Commercial Litigation department in 2019. Chloe graduated from the University of Greenwich…

 You can also listen to our podcast on your podcast platform of choice – find it here > Welcome to this episode. This time we’re talking crypto fraud with Head of Dispute Resolution…

Sadly, fighting a case in court and obtaining a money judgment does not always result in the debt being paid. A judgment debt can remain unsatisfied in part or in full for a number…

An interim “statute” bill is a complete and final invoice for a defined period of a client’s instructions to his or her solicitor, and can only be delivered if there is an express (or…

The introduction of a Data Reform Bill was among the Government’s proposed legislative plans delivered during the Queen’s Speech on 10 May 2022. This introduction will update the powers of the Information Commissioner’s Office…

RWK Goodman has further boosted its expertise in Dispute Resolution in the area of Insolvency with the appointment of Julie Killip as a Partner at its London office. Julie joins from Ince and has…

The Estate Agents Act 1979 (“the Act”) has been with us for some 34 years, the major part  coming into force in May 1982. The important Regulations referred to at Section 18 of the Act came into force on 29 July 1991 (“the Regulations”) . So there really should be no surprises and no reasons for disputes over when a person acting as an estate agent is entitled to a commission, and how much they should be paid, and yet disputes continue and commissions are lost.

“Deepfakes” are essentially computer generated ‘faceswaps’ created using Artificial Intelligence. The term originated around the end of 2017 when an online community began sharing deepfakes they had created amongst themselves. They started with fairly harmless content such as swapping Nicolas Cage’s face on to different actors in a variety of movies, but things took a turn for the worse when people started swapping celebrities’ faces on to the bodies of those involved in pornographic videos.