by Editor | Sep 15, 2020 | COVID-19, National Issues
By Yingbo (George) Wang & Xin Mu, Dentons Beijing Since the sudden outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, numerous central and local authorities in China have enacted policies to bailout businesses and individuals. Meanwhile some of higher people’s courts have issued...
by Editor | Sep 12, 2020 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues
Evgeniy Sukachev, Senior Partner, and Irina Dolya, Associate, Black Sea Law Company International merchant shipping is undeniably a link for the global economy. Relations in the merchant shipping sphere are regulated not only by national systems of laws and codes, but...
by Editor | Sep 9, 2020 | Commercial Issues
Frazer Hunt, Mills Oakley, Australia SUMMARY: The recent explosion in Beirut is a timely reminder to anybody who is involved in the handling of dangerous goods that it is not only necessary to know what you are handling but who you are dealing with both up and down...
by Editor | Aug 25, 2020 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The court of Amsterdam recently held that the word ‘damage’ in art. 17 paragraph 1of the CMR presumes substantial physical change to the state of the goods and ruled out, in this case, that...
by Editor | Aug 17, 2020 | Carriage by Rail, Summaries of Cases, Transport Documents
Ik Wei Chong + Christian Liu, Clyde + Co, Shanghai On 30 June 2020, the Liangjiang New District People’s Court, Chongqing (“the Court”) handed down a judgment following legal proceedings over the ownership of goods filed by the holder of a Rail Bill...
