Watson Farley & Williams is delighted to announce that it has been Highly Commended at the Legal Business Awards 2022 for ‘Legal Technology Team of the Year’ for its Global Aviation Restructuring Index and for ‘Finance Team of the Year’ for advising Citibank and HSBC on first of their kind ECA-backed JOLCOs for Seaspan.
We review the decision in FIMBank plc v KCH Shipping Co Ltd where the Commercial Court has finally clarified that the Hague-Visby Rules one-year time bar does apply to misdelivery claims after discharge.
Commercial Disputes Weekly covers a key decision of the Commercial Court that clarifies the position of the Hague-Visby Rules time bar and misdelivery claims, as well judgments on the interpretation of pre-emption rights, rejection of a claim that a tribunal was biased and when it is in the public interest to proceed with a hearing in the absence of the defendant.
Supply chains are only as strong as the weakest link: Collaborative working is the only way to achieve net zero within the construction industry.
In June 2022, Allianz Australia Insurance Limited and AWP Australia Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to seven criminal charges of misleading and deceptive conduct.
In the latest Commercial Disputes Weekly we look at two judgments which indicate the English Court’s approach to deciding in the abstract, as well as a decision which illustrates that the not so new witness statement requirements are still taking some time to bed in.
The current energy crisis that is shaking European markets (and beyond) is also stimulating reflections on corporate governance and, in particular, the liability of directors.
Read the seventy third edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
Useful clarification from the courts in the latest Commercial Disputes Weekly, including the differing approaches to proprietary and freezing injunctions and the test for common mistake.
Read the seventy second edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.