Our thanks go to North and Sea Mediation for arranging this well attended seminar on how early intervention can lead to quicker and better outcomes in legal disputes. Nick and Gabby attended alongside prominent names from the legal and P&I world. Maintaining good relations with our main competitors is important when it comes to getting the optimal outcome for our clients on disputes. We shall be advising our clients to consider early intervention in suitable cases.
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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