Senior legal professionals met at the Commercial Litigation Forum to discuss key dispute trends. Claire Ruckin reports

If one theme stood out at this year’s Commercial Litigation Forum, it was the encroachment of criminal law on the working lives of commercial lawyers. This issue was highlighted many times at the fifth forum, where Lord Grabiner QC headed up a senior line-up of judges, barristers and solicitors discussing the key dispute trends at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower in London on 15 September.