Penalties freed from straightjacket

In Cavendish Square Holding BV v Makdessi the Supreme Court rewrote the penalty rule. Three years on, guest editor Richard Ashmore of Herbert Smith Freehills LLP revisits how Cavendish established the current approach to penalties.

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