Following a trial lasting over three months and a 230-page judgment, Butcher J recently handed down a judgment dealing with consequential matters in the Russian aviation insurance litigation...

A claimant seeks a preliminary issue on a question of construction. It states that it accepts that if the point is decided against it...

A person who brings a claim abroad in flagrant breach of an arbitration or jurisdiction agreement will be subject to an anti-suit injunction almost automatically (The Angelic Grace [1995] 1 Lloyd's Rep 87).

There has been much speculation as to the effect of 2009 decision of the House of Lords in "The Achilleas" on the proper approach to damages in contract

Long term contracts frequently contain clauses which either terminate the contract automatically or entitle a party to terminate the contract in the event of the other party becoming insolvent; so-called ‘ipso facto' clauses.

Football fans who recall the early days of the Premiership may recognise the names of one or more of the five claimants who feature in this case with what the judge described as a "lamentable procedural history" (at [37]).

On 4 May the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in a case likely to be of interest to shipowners, cargo interests and financing banks, Unicredit Bank A.G. v Euronav N.V. [2023] EWCA Civ 471.

In an extensive Judgment of over 200 pages, Mr Justice Henshaw rejected jurisdiction challenges brought by the Defendant international reinsurers on the basis of Russian exclusive jurisdiction clauses (EJCs).

The Court of Appeal's decision in Sharp Corp Ltd v Viterra BV provides the first appellate-level authority on the quantification of damages under sub-clause (c)...

Updates to CPR Part 61 introduce welcome and overdue reforms to Collision Statements of Case, but leave unaddressed the real bottleneck to the full articulation of the issues in ship collision disputes.

On 27 November 2020, the Supreme Court handed down its highly anticipated judgment in Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd [2020] UKSC 48

The acknowledged starting point when seeking anti-suit injunctive relief is you must act promptly, but is that the whole story?

In this article we consider some of the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic in the shipping context, with a particular focus on force majeure issues.

On June 6, 2024, Mr. Justice Henshaw upheld jurisdiction challenges by international reinsurers based on Ukrainian exclusive jurisdiction clauses (EJCs). The court found these EJCs valid and enforceable, rejecting claims of unfair trial conditions due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The English statutory regime for appeals against arbitration awards on questions of law under s.69 of the Arbitration Act 1996, as is well known, applies a two stage process:

In the case of Ayhan Sezer v Agroinvest [2024] EWHC 479 (Comm), HHJ Pearce, sitting as a judge of the High Court in the London Circuit Commercial Court...

In this recent judgment, Mr Justice Foxton dealt with a ‘Triple Crown' arbitral challenge under sections 67, 68 and 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996 arising out of an arbitration award concerning a solicitors' firm's entitlement to payment from an insurer ...

Concluding a process that began in March 2021 and included consultation with 100s of stakeholders, the Law Commission has this week (September 2023) issued its final report on its review of the

The 1976 Limitation Convention, like the 1957 Convention before it, entitles a ship's "operator" to limit its liability in the same way as its registered owner.

A voyage charterer fails to discharge a cargo within the time allowed.