by Editor | Sep 23, 2021 | Carriage by Sea, Jurisdiction + Forum, Summaries of Cases
Limitation Conventions and Forum Non Conveniens – Strategically Navigating Different Regimes for Maritime Claims Frazer Hunt, Partner, Maurice Lynch, Special Counsel and Diana Lee, Law Graduate, Mills Oakley, Australia When a shipowner is sued for personal...
by Editor | Sep 6, 2021 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. The recently reported case of SK Shipping Europe PLC v VLCC 3 Corporation and another raised a number of legal issues which are of general interest as a matter of English commercial law and arise from time to time but do not often...
by Editor | Aug 29, 2021 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Ref: Articles 17, 23 and 25, CMR Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers The Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (“CMR”) provides a liability regime for international road carriage claims....
by Editor | Jul 12, 2021 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
A brief overview of the recent Belgian case law Adry Poelmans, Van Doosselaere Avocaten, Belgium Over the last few years, freight forwarders have been confronted with extensive (and sometimes outrageous) demurrage charges from sea carriers. Although demurrage serves...
by Editor | Jun 28, 2021 | Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
Pauline Davies, Fee Langstone, New Zealand The law has long recognised that where an insurer has indemnified an insured for loss caused by a third party, the insurer can sue the third party in the insured’s name to recover the amount paid. However, two recent English...
by Editor | Apr 22, 2021 | Commercial Issues, Summaries of Cases
Mykola Kozachenko, lawyer, and Kyrylo Sudnyk, junior lawyer, Interlegal Ukraine Chartering is an important concept of the global maritime trade sector and it consists of different types. One of the forms of carrying out a maritime business is a time charter. Under a...
