Comments On Commercial Disputes And The Rolls Building Financial List Initiative

For almost four years, London litigators have enjoyed the use of the Rolls Building for their hearings before the Chancery Division, the Commercial Court and the Technology and Construction Court. Those who remember nursing their sore backsides after a day sitting on the Victorian benches in the Thomas More Building of the Royal Courts of Justice would likely agree that the physical facilities of the Rolls Building at last provide an appropriate setting for the world-class judges who sit there.

London should consider doing more in order to maintain its traditional preeminence as the global centre for the resolution of commercial disputes, both through litigation and arbitration. Snapping at its heels in recent years to attract parties to commercial disputes subject to...