by Editor | Sep 29, 2014 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Dr. Marco Remiorz, Dabelstein & Passehl, Germany The District Court of Hamburg – very experienced in shipping matters – has denied the liability of a freight forwarder for the loss of goods due to the sinking of the MOL Comfort. The defendant, a German...
by Editor | Aug 25, 2014 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam District Court of Rotterdam, 2nd July 2014 in Sovlot v. Bensam Maritime Oil & Gass On 20 November 2012 a Towage Agreement was concluded between Sovlot B.V. (the Netherlands) as Tug Owner and...
by Editor | Aug 25, 2014 | Carriage by Sea, Case Summaries
Shmuel Grossman, Roy Gilad, Grossman, Cordova, Gilad & Co, Israel A company handling acquisition and marketing of metal waste contacted a client from England and agreed upon the exporting of an aluminium slag shipment to Spain. In order to export the shipment, the...
by Editor | Jul 29, 2014 | Case Summaries
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London Introduction Arbitration as an elective dispute resolution forum competes with civil jurisdictions and other forms of binding alternative dispute resolution such as expert determination. Arbitration venues also inevitably compete with...
by Editor | Jun 27, 2014 | Case Summaries, International Conventions, National Issues
Claudio Perrella Italy c.perrella@lslex.com The CMR (Convention on the Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods by Road of 19 May 1956) came into force in July 1961. It has been ratified by the vast majority of European states and has influenced the...
by Editor | May 29, 2014 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada The Supreme Court of Canada today dismissed Canadian National Railway‘s (CN) appeal (2014 SCC 40) from the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal in Canadian National Railway v Canadian...
