The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by Shanghai Shipyard Co. Ltd (the “Builder”) against a decision...
Oct 2021
Read MoreOn 31 March 2021 the ICC Banking Commission approved the new International Standard Demand Guarantee Practice (“ISDGP”) as...
Oct 2021
Read MoreA principal characteristic of letters of credit (LCs) is their autonomous nature. For those LCs that incorporate the...
Jul 2021
Read MoreI Introduction Over the past 50 years, few sectors have seen the growth and development that the superyacht...
Jul 2021
Read MoreAt the end of last year, Justin Turner and I reported upon a key update from the European...
Mar 2021
Read MoreIntroduction In the last twenty years there have been considerable changes in contracting practices for dealing with a...
Dec 2020
Read MoreIntroduction The global outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is having a significant effect on the superyacht industry, in...
Dec 2020
Read MoreIntroduction On 03 August 2020, the Dutch Court of East Brabant handed down an interim judgment in a...
Dec 2020
Read MoreSummary A shipyard was not entitled to extensions of time as a result of the application of the...
Dec 2020
Read MoreA recent judgment of the High Court, sitting as the Technology and Construction Court, has applied the decision...
Dec 2020
Read MoreIntroduction Following last month’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (“MEPC”) 75 meeting at the International Maritime Organisation (“IMO”), draft...
Dec 2020
Read MoreIntroduction In a series of brief bulletins, Justin Turner and I have been highlighting selected news updates which...
Nov 2020
Read MoreIntroduction In recent years maritime environmental matters have been under increasing global scrutiny, most likely due to mounting...
Nov 2020
Read MoreIntroduction Maritime environmental matters have been very much at the fore in recent years, not least in response...
Nov 2020
Read More(MUR Shipping B.V. v Louis Dreyfus Company Suisse S.A. [2019] EWHC 3240 (November 2019)) Standard form charterparties often...
Feb 2020
Read MoreAt the end of last year, India passed the Recycling of Ships Bill 2019 (the “Act”) and also...
Jan 2020
Read MoreIt is almost that time of the year when we can take a moment to reflect on the...
Dec 2019
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