We are pleased to welcome Tony Halliwell to our team. He joins us as a trainee solicitor and has over twenty years of commercial experience in the shipping industry. Tony began his shipping career as a trainee dry cargo broker in Hamburg in 1995 after completing his postgraduate studies in shipping at L’Institut du Shipping de St Nazaire in France. Prior to joining us he was Head of Shipping for an international commodities trading and tanker owning group based in Dubai and West Africa.
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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