Recent trends in transport and logistics law with … Tim Hemingway

Key Points:

Tim, what do you think are the main challenges for the transport and logistics sector at the moment?

Well, trade practices law is always evolving and throwing up new challenges for clients. As we saw recently, the big changes to the laws on unfair contracts have major ramifications for the transport and logistics sector, as standard form contracts are so common – indeed, they're an essential part of doing business. Making sure their contracts don't breach the law has been a bit of a headache for clients.

But it's not just the recent changes which we're seeing clients grapple with. Chain of responsibility laws are not particularly new, but there's still a fair amount of uncertainty out there.