by Editor | Oct 27, 2025 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues, Principal + Agent
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Hopcraft v Close Brothers Ltd; Johnson v FirstRand Bank Ltd and Wrench v FirstRand Bank Ltd [2025] UKSC 33 The outcome of this recent Supreme Court decision turned on the question whether the law recognised a duty owed by a motor...
by Editor | Oct 20, 2025 | Carriage by Sea, Case Summaries, International Conventions, Transport Documents
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Tanga Pharmaceuticals Plastics Ltd v Emirates Shipping Line FZE [2025] EWHC 368 (Comm) Bright J. In this case the issues for determination were, a) whether a contractual time bar clause by clause 18 of the bill lading applying to...
by Editor | Feb 28, 2025 | Case Summaries, Customs Issues
The Netherlands – Right of retention on airplane engine by forwarding agent (defendant) due to impending fine based on Regulation (EU) 2023/1529 concerning restrictive measures in light of Iran’s military support of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine...
by Editor | Feb 26, 2025 | Case Summaries, Commercial Issues, Jurisdiction + Forum
Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam Ref: Judgment of the Rotterdam District Court 14 November 2024, ECLI:NL:RBROT: 2024:11505 in the interim relief proceedings between Intertoys B.V., claimant and Flexport International LLC,...
by Editor | Nov 26, 2024 | Carriage by Sea, Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Ref: Fimbank Plc v KCH Shipping Co Ltd [2024] UKSC 38 The international carriage of goods by sea is almost invariably governed either by the Hague Rules, a 1924 international convention for the unification of rules of law relating to...
by Editor | Nov 22, 2024 | Carriage by Sea, Case Summaries
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. This matter reached our highest appellate court, The Supreme Court. I discussed the Court of Appeal decision in July 2023 – see the previous article on this website for the background. In short, the Supreme Court upheld the...
