On 1 May 2020 the BDM team celebrated their fifth year of operation. Back in 2015, the founding partners of BDM felt that the future would be about specialist boutique firms providing high quality specialist advice in a flexible manner. With the help and support of our many friends and clients we have managed to achieve that goal. We would like to thank the BDM team (past and present) and all those who have supported us throughout the last five years.
In a recent arbitration under the LMAA Small Claims Procedure (1) the Tribunal had to determine the validity of a Notice of Readiness (“NOR”) which had been tendered by email. The NOR is one of the most important documents for ship owners because it acts as a trigger to [...]
Read more >
Readers of our blog may recall an article we released back in November 2020 in which we highlighted the risks that a ship owner is required to undertake when accepting a letter of indemnity (LOI) in exchange for releasing the cargo without the production of an original bill [...]
Read more >
We previously reported on the High Court and Court of Appeal’s decisions in one of the last Somali ransom cases still in the Court system. The Court of Appeal held that a war risks provision in a charterparty did not constitute an agreement that the owners would not claim [...]
Read more >