Commercial Disputes Weekly – Issue 19023 January 2024
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we look at complex contract interpretation questions in the maritime, aviation, insurance and construction context.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we look at complex contract interpretation questions in the maritime, aviation, insurance and construction context.
Relevant decrees have been published to complete the opening of the Italian tonnage tax regime to European Union and European Economic Area registered vessels.
the courts have considered the interpretation of lease extension options, whether one dispute or two were referred to adjudication and when damages are recoverable for misrepresentation.
Dispute Resolution and ESG Partner Sarah Ellington and Associate Lauren Satill consider five key trends to look out for in 2024.
Hamburg Senior Associate Muteber Yalcin provides a brief overview of the key responsibilities of a managing director (Geschäftsführer) of a GmbH under German law.
This article highlights the key summary of the expanded arrangement for reciprocal enforcement of judgments between mainland China and Hong Kong which will take effect on 29 January 2024.
We start 2024 with an edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly that rounds up a few cases from the end of 2023 on cargo damage, state immunity, ship sale and arbitration issues.
Following the announcement of the UAE’s New Maritime Law, WFW Dubai examines its key developments and discuss what’s changed.
Rounding the year off in this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly with the application of an insurance war exclusion for a WWII bomb, whether a river bed counts as land and the incorporation of an arbitration agreement into a barter arrangement.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we look at adjudication, anti-suit injunctions, debt priorities and land registration.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider the question of jurisdiction in adjudication, whether courts can stay proceedings and order parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution, the lawfulness of the London Metal Exchange’s actions and a prohibition on assignment.
This edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly contains reminders of the need for clear contract drafting, as well as considering whether there was apparent bias following a judge’s speech and when a Master’s negligence gives a shipowner a defence to breach of charterer’s orders.