For many years, Angus has coached intervaristy mooting teams in competitions which involve international disopute resolution (and in particular, international commercial arbitration).  Last year, he coached students from the Thomas More Law School at the Australian Catholic University (who were good enough, despite Angus’ coaching, to finish 27th out of 372 universities competing in Vienna).

it is sometimes said that there is no limit to the ingenuity of lawyers, which may go some way to explaining why a plaintiff complaining of a slip and fall in a Paris hotel shower was suing a Singapore company in the Supreme Court of New South Wales last month. However, the plaintiff did not

If you skim to the end of most contracts, you should find clauses of the kind which are often described as “midnight clauses”.  These are clauses dealing with the proper law of the contract, the jurisdiction (or forum) for the resolution of disputes, and (in some cases) providing for alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, such as arbitration.