by Editor | Jul 15, 2015 | National Issues
Aage Krogh, IUNO Denmark The Maritime and Commercial High Court has ruled that a Danish carrier is liable for a trailer being stolen in front of the freight forwarder’s terminal. The trailer was filled with hams on hangers worth approximately 40,000 EUR. The carrier...
by Editor | Jul 8, 2015 | Carriage by Sea, National Issues
Ik Wei Chong, Clyde + Co, Shanghai South Korea’s current outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been the focus of much international attention. The local impact of the outbreak has been severe, leading to nearly 3,000 schools being closed...
by Editor | Jun 26, 2015 | National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Readers may recall my [url= http://www.forwarderlaw.com/library/view.php?article_id=835 target=new] 2012 update[/url] on the WTO dispute between Canada and the United States in respect of US...
by Editor | Jun 10, 2015 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Paul Bugden, Bugden + Co., London The modern cases support the proposition that if the opening or confirming bank fails to pay against presentation of conforming documents under a letter of credit payable at sight, the beneficiary may sue in debt to recover the value...
by Editor | May 26, 2015 | National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada An investigation by the Vancouver Sun[1] has uncovered both government and police documents evidencing an infiltration of Vancouver’s port facilities by biker gangs for the purposes of drug...
by Editor | May 21, 2015 | Case Summaries, National Issues
Gill Nadel, Goldfarb Seligman, Israel As a rule, when a claim is filed, the plaintiff is required to send a copy of the claim to the defendant’s domicile, and to provide them to the prosecutor in person. As we know, when it comes to matters related to...