by Editor | Nov 14, 2022 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The Dutch Supreme Court rendered a judgment on 16 September 2022 (ECLI:NL:HR:2022:1222) in a case answering the question if CMR contains a rule of burden of proof regarding the question whether...
by Editor | Oct 26, 2022 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The District Court East-Brabant rendered an interim judgment on 30 March 2022 in a case concerning damage sustained to a consignment of pork en route from the Netherlands to Poland...
by Editor | Oct 19, 2022 | Carriage by Road, Summaries of Cases
Charlotte J. van Steenderen, Van Steenderen Mainport Lawyers, Rotterdam The District Court of The Hague rendered a judgment on 19 January 2022 in a case concerning damage sustained to a consignment of roses en route from Spain to the Netherlands...
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....