by Editor | Jun 7, 2024 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. On 20 September 2023 ,the Electronic Trade Documents Act came into force. It is groundbreaking legislation. The driver behind the legislation was to ensure that certain trade documents, in electronic form, if they satisfied the...
by Editor | Feb 29, 2024 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, Multimodal, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued its final rule on carrier detention and demurrage practices under the Ocean Shipping Reform Act 2022....
by Editor | Feb 14, 2024 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Ltd [2024] UKSC 6 This extremely important recent decision of the UK Supreme Court case raised, amongst other issues, some fundamental questions in applying the tort of...
by Editor | Jan 30, 2024 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. It had been said in the past that it was a party’s constitutional right to be heard at trial to resolve a dispute. No longer. The right to trial was the thrust of one the hitherto leading authorities as to whether ADR or mediation...
by Editor | Nov 26, 2023 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
Maurice Lynch and Jason Symons, Mills Oakley, Australia Australia is amid a tumultuous period of cyber upheaval. Last weekend, another large Australian business was exposed to a cyber-attack. Australian businesses must now be thinking “If not now, when?” The attack...
