Conflicts of Interest (4th Ed)

Conflicts of Interest provides authoritative guidance on the law relating to conflics of interest in all its dimensions, from client conflict and personal conflict to commercial and judicial conflict.

The new 4th edition:

Offers expanded coverage of judicial conflicts in response to a variety and frequency of modern day judicial challenges.
Includes a new chapter covering arbitration conflicts which covers the increasing issue that arbitrators and barristers may practice from the same chambers and increasingly appear as judge and advocate in the same case
Updated coverage for chapters on fiduciary duties and litigating conflicts
Includes the new code of conduct from the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority
The new 4th edition also offer a selection of new case law, including:

BAA v Competition Commission
Helow v Secretary of State for the Home Department
Khan v R and KC v R.
Porter v Magill
Virgin Media Communications v BSkyB, where the Court of Appeal had frustratingly announced their decision but not their reasons at the time last edition went to press (and the reasons turned out a little different from what had been anticipated)
Bloomsbury v Holyoake (insolvency practitioners conflicted as a result of firm’s retainer to a person the administrators sued) Meat Corp of Namibia v Dawn Meats (expert witness conflict) and from abroad PCCW HK Telephone v Aitken (Hong Kong CFA, applicability of Bolkiah test in other spheres)
Radisich v Templeton (duty to the other side in New Zealand).