This issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly covers two arbitration challenges on fairness and jurisdiction, the interpretation of a live/work covenant in a lease and an unsuccessful invocation of Brexit and the pandemic as force majeure.
This edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly considers two classic insurance issues, namely insurable interest and co-insurance, as well as the availability of an injunction to prevent enforcement of loan security and whether the resignation of an adjudicator makes a challenge out of time.
An international and financial flavour to this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly with cases enforcing sovereign debt, bringing claims under securities and seeking information from overseas banks for fraud claims. We also consider a decision on the interpretation of informal contracts.
Representation from a range of courts in this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly with cases on contract formation and interpretation, a decision on the basis of interest claims on US dollar judgments and when time starts running in deceit claims.
CDW will return on Tuesday 18 April 2023 after a short break.
A strong transport theme for this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly, with a decision on the impact of sanctions on aircraft leasing standby letters of credit and two maritime decisions on unseaworthiness and recovery of standby charges. We round it off with a look at whether recent damage from a WWII bomb falls within the war exclusion of an insurance policy.
Topical cases on Ukraine, Russia and sanctions appear in this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly, together with decisions on the formality requirements for right to manage companies and breach of a material adverse change warranty.
In this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we look at whether disclosure is limited to ‘contemporaneous’ documents, two cases on the importance of following notice procedures to the letter and the extent to which a party can insist on its chosen counsel team.
This week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly considers a Supreme Court decision on rent repayment orders, two maritime decisions as to calculation of the liability sum and determination of time limitation issues in relation to oil pollution.
A varied issue for Commercial Disputes Weekly covering novation from conduct and a no dealing clause, formalities for the witnessing of deeds, whether an adjudicator exercised a lien and an injunction to prevent use of documents overseas.
In this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly we look at the Admiralty Court’s decision that there was a clear breach of the crossing rules, when the US court can assist with obtaining evidence for English proceedings and two different scenarios in which applications to prevent adjudication enforcement failed.
The decisions in this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly look at a variety of sources of law: a clash between statute and contract in a landlord and tenant dispute, a potential novel development of the common law with cryptocurrency, a classic battle of the forms sale of goods case and interpretation of the carve out for legal expenses from a freezing order.
In this issue of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we cover the Supreme Court’s decision that Tate Modern’s viewing gallery is a nuisance, together with judgments on apparent arbitrator bias, exercise of a finance lessee’s option to take ownership in a sanctions context and interpretation of a commonly used jurisdiction clause.