by Editor | Jun 26, 2015 | National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Readers may recall my [url= http://www.forwarderlaw.com/library/view.php?article_id=835 target=new] 2012 update[/url] on the WTO dispute between Canada and the United States in respect of US...
![Kassiopi Maritime Co Ltd v Fal Shipping Co.Ltd [2015] EWHC 318 (Comm) (19 February 2015) Hamblen J.](http://forwarderlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cargo_Ship.jpg)
by Editor | Jun 10, 2015 | Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Introduction This case is the latest in a long line of reported cases on demurrage time bars and almost certainly not the last. This note considers the main points that arose in the case and some others too. Background facts in...
![Letters of Credit – effect of payment – Standard Chartered Bank v Dorchester LNG Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 1382](http://forwarderlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/container_vessel_HKong.jpg)
by Editor | Jun 10, 2015 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London The modern cases support the proposition that if the opening or confirming bank fails to pay against presentation of conforming documents under a letter of credit payable at sight, the beneficiary may sue in debt to recover the value...
by Editor | May 28, 2015 | Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London The Claimant (‘Spar’) was the registered owner of three supramax bulk carriers each let on long term time charter to Grand China Shipping (Hong Kong) Co Ltd with guarantees issued by the Defendant as the parent of the...
![Container demurrage – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA v Cottonex Anstalt [2015] EWHC 283 (Comm) Leggatt J](http://forwarderlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cargo_Ship-1.jpg)
by Editor | May 28, 2015 | Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London This case raised interesting and important questions as to the nature and duration of an obligation to pay ‘container demurrage’. The Carrier contracted with the Shipper to carry a total of 35 containers of raw cotton by...
