Bob Deering was pleased once again to chair the annual Lloyd’s Maritime Academy Ship Arrest Seminar. Bob is an acknowledged authority on arresting ships and attaching other assets. As always, this year’s conference included speakers from many of the most popular arrest jurisdictions. Bob shared his thoughts on the year’s seminal case Res Cogitans and looks forward to returning to chairing the conference once again next year.
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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