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 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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