by Editor | Jan 11, 2016 | Carriage by Sea, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Background The Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) is a treaty of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency tasked with maintaining a comprehensive framework of...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Jurisdiction + Forum
Ik Wei Chong, Clyde + Co, Shanghai There are very few instances where an arbitration agreement, which provides for the arbitration to be administered by a non-Chinese arbitral institution (such as the ICC) under its arbitration rules, also provides for the seat of...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | National Issues
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The judicial system in the Netherlands The Netherlands is divided into eleven districts, each with its own court. These districts are made up of a maximum of five divisions, which always includes...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Case Summaries
Dr. Marco Remiorz, Dabelstein & Passehl, Germany Facts The claimant, a Hamburg terminal operator, was instructed by the charterer of the BBC Naples, a general cargo vessel, to discharge and store pipes in the port of Hamburg. The pipes were discharged from the...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | Legal Lookout
Steve Block, Foster Pepper PLLC, USA Maritime law’s doctrine of material deviation – one that goes way back – is defined per Nineteenth Century U.S. Supreme Court case law as a “voluntary departure without necessity, or any reasonable cause, from the regular and usual...
