We’re in England for the upcoming Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference, and instead of heading directly to London from Heathrow, thought it would be a good time to take a short diversion to nearby Runnymede for what must be the O.G.
On 8 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper in relation to fair redemption terms for authorised funds investing in illiquid assets (CP26/35).
Background
The FCA sets out that it has worked with the International Organization
Important issues of UK constitutional law can arise in the most unusual of places. Some of the most important cases on undergraduate reading lists, for example, concerned disputes about fishing licences and whether goods could be measured in imperial, rather
Five city traders have had their convictions overturned in the Court of Appeal after serving jail sentences for rigging interest rates while working at Barclays bank.Philippe Moryoussef, Jay Merchant, Colin Bermingham, Jonathan Mathew, and Alex Pabon were convicted following prosecutions
In Gilbert & Anor v Broadoak Private Finance Ltd [2026] EWCA Civ 1172, the Court of Appeal confirmed that none of the three gateways the claimants relied upon permitted service out for a free-standing freezing order application brought to assist
Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society (Cambridge University Press), by Richard Thomas Bell, University of Oxford, is now available online (though not yet in print):
Why and how did English society
David Dyzenhaus’s The War Against Law: What’s Wrong with Common Good Constitutionalism (hereinafter, The War Against Law) is essential reading for anyone concerned about the state of the rule of law in liberal democracies. Dyzenhaus is one of the world’s
On 7 October 2026, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published Consultation Paper 13/26 – Updating regulatory thresholds: An autopilot approach (CP13/26).
Background
In CP13/26 the PRA proposes a transparent, rules-based framework that would automatically update in-scope regulatory thresholds every five
