Commercial Disputes Weekly – Issue 209
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly we consider decisions from courts at all levels dealing with issues relating to sanctions, arbitration enforcement, damages, leases and contract interpretation.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly we consider decisions from courts at all levels dealing with issues relating to sanctions, arbitration enforcement, damages, leases and contract interpretation.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider two further decisions arising from the war in Ukraine, a planning issue relating to the ‘Bibby Stockholm’ and the interpretation of a limitation of liability claim.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider the application of recoveries with layered insurance, the duty of care of a marina owner, whether a second adjudication overlapped with the first adjudication settlement and further guidance on protections for leaseholders from cladding remediation costs.
In this edition of Commercial Disputes Weekly, we consider two more key decisions from the UK Supreme Court on force majeure, sanctions and company director liability in tort. We also discuss a tenant’s remedy for the landlord obtaining a lease termination order by misrepresentation and the latest example of the English courts upholding English jurisdiction agreements against attempts by the Russian courts to override them.
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 our final Commercial Disputes Weekly of 2022, we explore when an email is signed, when an English court will not get involved in foreign litigation, the implication of a term when calculating rent in a lease and the evidence required for a claim for the cost of replacement borrowing.
We will be back on Tuesday 10 January 2023 and wish all our readers a relaxing break.
The judgments covered in this Commercial Disputes Weekly discuss case management where a sanctioned entity is involved, jurisdiction challenges in enforcement of foreign judgments, whether the identity of a party is privileged and repairing obligations where the tenant was a bank appointed receiver.
This week in Commercial Disputes Weekly we look at tonnage limitation for ship damage claims, the governing law of contribution claims, what makes a notice valid and the reasonableness of installing a waking watch.
We are back after our short break to a bumper selection of interesting cases. The latest Commercial Disputes Weekly discusses judgments on sanctions and reasonable endeavours, appropriate remedies for proprietary estoppel, Covid-19 insurance, landlord’s expenses and an attempt at using a jurisdictional Trojan Horse.