Welcome to the second edition of the insolvency insight bulletin from the insolvency specialists at Quadrant Chambers.

Welcome to the next edition of the Insolvency Insight bulletin from the insolvency specialists at Quadrant Chambers.

The latest edition of the Quadrant Chambers International Arbitration Newsletter is now available.

The silver was being carried on the SS Tilawa - a privately-owed merchant ship - during World War II.

Demurrage time-bar clauses often cause problems for unsuspecting shipowners who have otherwise valid demurrage claims.

The Supreme Court will hear the shipowners' appeal from the decision in Alize 1954 v Allianz Elementar Versicherungs AG (The "CMA CGM LIBRA")

The International Maritime Organisation Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships was adopted in 2009.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak unprecedented havoc in the aviation industry, affected commercial parties will increasingly be looking for escape routes from onerous contractual obligations.

In recent years climate change and sustainability issues have frequently been in the media and this is unlikely to change any time soon.

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

We welcome you to what is now the third edition of Quadrant on Shipping.

In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal in Churchill v. Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416 made a significant stride in the evolution of dispute resolution...

The ill-fated vessel "Atlantik Confidence" caught fire and sank in 2013.

On 30 March I wrote an article ‘Arbitration Hearings and the Corona New Normal: Ten Golden Rules or your Easy Path to a Virtual Hearing".

On Friday 20 October 2023, the Commercial Court handed down judgment in Therium Litigation Funding A IC v Bugsby Property LLC [2023] EWHC 2627 (Comm), the first case to address the consequences of the decision of the Supreme Court ...

On 27 February, the Commercial Court's Judgment in Nas Air Co v Genesis Aviation Trading 3 Ltd was handed down.

As well as producing horrendous human suffering, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to sharply lower demand for crude oil and petroleum products and worldwide recessionary economic conditions.

In Rhine Shipping v Vitol [2024], the Court of Appeal upheld the decision that Vitol's internal swaps, unaffected by Rhine's breach of contract, did not reduce Vitol's damages. Rhine's re-cast appeal was dismissed due to lack of trial evidence.

In Ayhan Sezer v Agroinvest [2024], the High Court clarified the date of default in the context of anticipatory repudiatory breaches under the GAFTA Default Clause. The court held that the default date should be the date of the first anticipatory repudiatory breach, aligning with previous case law and providing consistency in the interpretation of such breaches.

On 17 January 2024 the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Herculito Maritime Ltd v. Gunvor International BV (the "Polar") [2024] UKSC 2, which considered the ramifications of a piratical seizure in the Gulf of Aden...