Commercial & Legal Practice

From construction LAD accumulating daily to escalating credit-card debts, should Malaysia impose clearer limits on contractual financial liability?

You lost the adjudication, but the dispute is not over. So why might you still have to pay? From South Africa’s R201 million dispute to Malaysia, Ireland and the UK, we look at how “pay now, argue later” works and why your contract’s dispute clause matters long before a dispute begins.

Nobody worries about the assignment clause while salaries are paid and business is running normally. But when operations move to another company, unpaid salaries, employee shares and contractual rights suddenly raise much bigger questions.

A contractor takes over a project. Sounds simple. But what happens to existing claims, variations, liabilities, subcontractors and payment rights? Assignment and novation are often treated as boilerplate until a dispute makes every word matter.

Louis Vuitton transformed a takeaway burger box into luxury while enforcing its four-petal flower trademarks in China. Is that hypocrisy or simply how intellectual property works? We separate the real Molly Tea judgment, the pending CNIPA case and the viral false report.

A subcontractor abandoned the project, yet years later the contractor still lost the dispute. Learn why proper documentation, timely objections and good contract management matter.

When construction material prices increase, who really bears the financial burden? Discover how fixed-price contracts, commercial risk and the European Commission’s competition investigation affect contractors, subcontractors and developers.