by Editor | Mar 17, 2022 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Henrik Thal Jantzen, Hafnia Law, Denmark I refer to my article of March 2021 about prospects to avoid CMR limitation by pursuing a claim on the basis of product liability principle. The article was based on a judgment delivered by the Danish Maritime and Commercial...
by Editor | Feb 23, 2022 | Carriage by Road, National Issues
Gavin Magrath, Magrath’s International Legal Counsel, Toronto, Canada Ontario’s Ministry of Transportation (MTO) has suspended the operating licenses of as many as 39 trucking businesses as a result of their participation in the so-called “Freedom...
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 | Mar 7, 2021 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Henrik Thal Jantzen, Hafnia Law, Denmark In three recent judgements – the first one being delivered in August 2019 and the last one being delivered in April 2020 – the Danish Maritime and Commercial Court have addressed the question of gross negligence in accordance...
by Editor | Sep 25, 2020 | Carriage by Road, Commercial Issues
John Habergham, Myton Law, Hull U.K. After a lapse of a little over a decade, the RHA have refreshed their carriage conditions. The latest version will be very familiar to most parties. The overall scheme of liability has been retained but there are a few significant...
by Editor | Aug 25, 2020 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Arnold Van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The court of Amsterdam recently held that the word ‘damage’ in art. 17 paragraph 1of the CMR presumes substantial physical change to the state of the goods and ruled out, in this case, that...
