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 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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