Here is a selection of some matters (capped at 30) to be considered at various phases in the lifecycle of a contract and any consequent dispute.

In the current economic climate, the old cliché “cash is king” could not be more relevant. Receivables are only as good as receipts.

Rebekah Vardy is facing paying a significant contribution to Colleen Rooney’s substantial costs. This will require more than a few drama spin-offs, documentaries, and reality TV appearances.

If long litigation experience tells you one thing, it’s that “winning” and “losing” are relative concepts.

The tone of much litigation correspondence is often one of outraged offence: your client is the repository of all virtue and the “other side” is guilty of extreme bad faith. This can sometimes be hidden in mild language: the description “unhelpful” often covers a multitude of sins in its passive-aggressive use and can easily be understood to mean that the recipient party is guilty of egregious misconduct.

The case of Lloyd v. Google recently decided by the Supreme Court of the UK was an attempt to establish a claim put at £750 per individual affected. But what caused lawyers and litigation funders to salivate was the fact that many millions of individuals were in fact affected by data breaches.

The way in which English law protects personal privacy is founded on a prohibition of misuse of private information. Recent developments have expanded this to cover intrusion or harassment. This is so even if some information has reached the public domain so there is some loss of absolute confidentiality.