For the first time since taking effect under English Law, the High Court in Wealmoor Ltd v KLM [2025] EWHC 1706 (Comm) considered the test for an "event"...

This decision considers the effect of an in rem judgment in subsequent in personam proceedings.

Berytus Insurance & Reinsurance v. Golden Adventure Shipping [2025] EWHC 664 (Comm), The Rubymar.

Butcher J in the Commercial Court handed down judgment in Ducat Maritime Ltd v Lavender Shipmanagement Incorporated [2022] EWHC 766 (Comm), setting aside part of an award made by an arbitrator in an LMAA arbitration under section 68 …

Commercial analysis: In the contractual ‘battle of the forms' to determine which party's standard terms govern the contract concluded, the ‘last shot' usually wins. But, in TRW v Panasonic

Chris Smith QC was instructed by Fanos Theophani, and the associates Harriet Thornton and Hayley Flood at Preston Turnbull LLP.

In a judgment handed down on Wednesday 19 February 2025 (Nasir v Zavarco Plc [2025] UKSC 5), the Supreme Court has held that the esoteric but longstanding doctrine of merger...

It is not unusual for claims in respect of contracts to be pursued by a party which was not in fact a party to the contract in question, but rather has rights derived from that contract.

Admiralty Registrar Davison recently handed down judgment in Premier Marinas v The Double Venus and The Santorini, a case in which the Registrar considers two aspects of Admiralty procedure.

On 22 February 2024 the UK Government announced its intention to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)

In an anonymised decision handed down in the High Court on 8 May 2025 (A Corporation v Firm B [2025] EWHC 1092 (Comm)), Mr Justice Foxton refused to grant an application for interim relief in the context...

This article was first published in International Corporate Rescue by Chase Cambria.

The Court's decision upholds the previous decisions of the LMAA tribunal (Julia Dias KC, Sir Bernard Eder and Tim Young KC) and of the Commercial Court (Sir William Blair).

Following a 50 day trial in the Commercial Court in the Russian Aircraft Lessor Policy Claims, on 11 June 2025, Mr Justice Butcher handed down judgment, ruling in favour of the Claimant lessors...

In Dassault Aviation SA v Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co Ltd [2024] EWCA Civ 5, the Court of Appeal has held that a clause prohibiting assignment "by a party" did not catch an assignment to an insurer...

On 9 October 2020, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Enka Insaat Ve Sanayi A.S. v OOO Insurance Company Chubb [2020] UKSC 38, unanimously confirming the Court of Appeal's...

The Court of Appeal has just handed down judgment in the C CHALLENGER, dismissing the appeal.

The judgment of Christopher Hancock KC in the case of Yangtze Navigation (Asia) Co Ltd & anor v. TPT Shipping Ltd & ors (The "Xing Zhi Hai") [2024] EWHC 2371 (Comm), handed down on 18 September 2024...

In this decision, the Commercial Court was tasked with considering the following question of law on an appeal pursuant to section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 ("the 1996 Act"):

XL Insurance Company SE v (1) IPORS Underwriting Limited; (2) Paul Alan Corcoran; (3) Cheshire Prestigious Cars Limited And (4) Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs [2021] EWHC 474 (Comm)...