by Editor | Jun 7, 2024 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. On 20 September 2023 ,the Electronic Trade Documents Act came into force. It is groundbreaking legislation. The driver behind the legislation was to ensure that certain trade documents, in electronic form, if they satisfied the...
by Editor | Feb 29, 2024 | Carriage by Sea, Commercial Issues, Multimodal, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada The US Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) has issued its final rule on carrier detention and demurrage practices under the Ocean Shipping Reform Act 2022....
by Editor | Nov 26, 2023 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
Maurice Lynch and Jason Symons, Mills Oakley, Australia Australia is amid a tumultuous period of cyber upheaval. Last weekend, another large Australian business was exposed to a cyber-attack. Australian businesses must now be thinking “If not now, when?” The attack...
by Editor | Oct 30, 2023 | Carriage by Sea, International Conventions, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Bill C-47, the budget implementation omnibus Act, received royal assent on 22 June 2023 and came into force on 20 September. Subdivision A of Division 21 of Part 4 amends the Marine Liability...
by Editor | Oct 11, 2023 | Commercial Issues, National Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. As I prefaced in earlier articles (here and here), The Law Commission has been scrutinising the Arbitration Act 1996 and has now issued its final report after a couple of consultation rounds. As I intimated in my earlier articles,...
by Editor | May 1, 2023 | National Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. The Law Commission project is ongoing – see my earlier article here. They issued a first consultation paper, considered the results and, as a consequence, then issued a second consultation paper inviting responses – the...
