by Editor | Jan 23, 2026 | National Issues
By Yingbo Wang, Senior Partner of Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLP 2025 is a crucial year in China’s progress toward the rule of law. To meet the demands of the new development pattern and high-level opening up, China’s legislative authorities have systematically...
by Editor | Jan 18, 2026 | Carriage by Sea, Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Perfect Marine Ltd v Sodrugestvo Turkey [2025] EWHC 1940 (Comm) This interesting recent case discussed, but without needing to decide, the meaning of the phrase “unless suit is brought” found in the Article III Rule...
by Editor | Jan 12, 2026 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. The British International Freight Association (BIFA) Standard Trading Conditions for 2025 are now published and being used. The great majority of forwarders in the UK are members of BIFA and it follows that the great majority of...
by Editor | Jan 5, 2026 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London King Crude Carriers SA v Ridgebury November LLC [2025] UKSC 39 The focus of this appeal was on the decision of the House of Lords in the Scottish case of Mackay v Dick (1881) 6 App Cas 251. Sitting as a panel of three, there were two...
by Editor | Dec 22, 2025 | Carriage by Air, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Perhaps because Canada’s Air Passenger Protection Regulations (SOR/2019-150) came into force just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Canadian travelers are unaware of their ‘new’...
