We are delighted to announce that BDM Law LLP partner David McInnes has been named as the Corporate LiveWire Global Shipping Lawyer of the Year in the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards 2020. These awards mean a great deal to our growing team and it is a very nice compliment to receive such endorsements. We would like to thank all the BDM team and all our clients and friends for their continued support and testimonials in achieving such awards.
In a judgment handed down by Deputy Judge David Railton QC of London’s Commercial Court on 27 July 2022, BDM Law LLP and its clients the Textainer Group scored a notable victory in a substantial claim brought by the Textainer Group’s container lessee default insurers led[...]
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A reminder to all that when the time comes the Courts will read exclusion clauses carefully and seek to give effect to the words used in the context in which they are used. We see many examples of exclusion clauses that are vague and ambiguous. That opens the way to argument[...]
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We do not often see successful applications to overturn Arbitral Awards. This recent case(1) , however, is an example of a successful application to set aside part of an Award under section 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 on the grounds that the sole arbitrator did not act fa[...]
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