It was an honour to be nominated by Legal Business for Boutique Law Firm of the Year 2019. Sadly we could not make the prestigious dinner and Awards ceremony but our congratulations go to the winners Northridge Law. Boutiques are increasingly the preferred option for discerning clients and we are very pleased to count some of the world’s major ship owners and insurers as our clients. Many thanks to our team and all those clients who have given us the opportunity to prove ourselves.
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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