Appeal rights mean little if only one side can afford to use them properly. This piece looks at what that gap actually costs, and what could close it. Our previous piece[1] looked at the Department for Business and Trade's (DBT) proposal[2] to move regulatory appeals from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), and what the harmonised right of appeal would mean across water, energy, aviation and telecoms. That piece focused on pro

How a distant weather cycle is quietly reshaping collateral, affordability and dispute risk across UK and EU lending books An El Niño event has been building in the tropical Pacific since June. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center currently puts the odds at around six in ten that this event will peak at a magnitude matching the strongest on record. Although the United Kingdom and the European Union sit thousands of miles from the ocean anomalies that define the phenomenon, the co

DT Economics turned ten this year, and we marked it with a weekend away day at Muncaster Castle, on the Cumbrian coast. Partners, the team and some of our Senior Advisors were there, and we invited families along too, babies and toddlers included. Ten years ago, David Thomas started the firm with a simple conviction: that it should be possible to build a specialist economics practice without the backing of a global giant behind it, and that a smaller firm could still do work