Commercial Disputes Weekly – Issue 18916 January 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
The cases in this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly provide detailed interpretations of sanctions and landlord and tenant legislation, as well as the importance of the factual matrix in contract interpretation.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly we consider contractor claims on a construction project, tax fraud, interpretation of a MAC clause and payment into court in a sanctions dispute.
This edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly considers three cases looking at different issues of jurisdiction and a further case that highlights the importance of contractual clarity as to when obligations terminate.
This edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly considers an arbitration award obtained by fraud, the appropriate forum for a claim of forced labour in Malaysia and two decisions involving attempts to resist enforcement of security for financing.
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