Judicial Sale of Ships on Course to Legal Certainty – The Beijing Convention
A gap in international law concerning the international effects of judicial sales of ships is on the verge of being closed.
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A gap in international law concerning the international effects of judicial sales of ships is on the verge of being closed.
The UK Court of Appeal held that the one-year time bar for claims under the Hague-Visby Rules applies to claims for misdelivery, even if said misdelivery occurred after discharge.
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.