Nick and Bob are celebrating their tenth and eleventh consecutive years in Best Lawyers having made it into the 2019 list for Shipping and Insurance Law respectively. Nick first appeared back in 2009 and Bob in 2008. Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review so it’s a great compliment to receive endorsements from other prominent professionals.
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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