by Editor | Mar 23, 2016 | National Issues
Felipe Arizon, Spain felipearizon@arizon.es Introduction The “Prestige” was an Aframax class oil tanker registered in the Bahamas with a Liberian corporation as owner and operated by a Greek company. On November 13th, 2002, while it was carrying 77,000 mt of heavy...
by Editor | Mar 6, 2016 | National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada http://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/ctareview2014/canada-transportation-act-review.html In June 2014 the Government of Canada commissioned a review of the Canada Transportation Act and related legislation, with...
by Editor | Feb 7, 2016 | National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada On 5 February 2016 the Honourable Stéphane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Chrystia Freeland, Minister of International Trade, announced changes to the Special Economic...
by Editor | Jan 21, 2016 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Aage Krogh, IUNO Denmark In a partial judgment concerning arbitration, the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court rejected a legal appeal against a freight forwarder affiliated with the contracting carrier, since the carrier was not legally bound by the agreement in...
by Editor | Jan 11, 2016 | Carriage by Sea, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Background The Safety of Life at Sea Convention (SOLAS) is a treaty of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations agency tasked with maintaining a comprehensive framework of...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2015 | National Issues
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The judicial system in the Netherlands The Netherlands is divided into eleven districts, each with its own court. These districts are made up of a maximum of five divisions, which always includes...
