In a recent judgment of the English Commercial Court, The M/V Smart , which will be welcomed by owners, Mr Justice Butcher held that a shipowner could demand direct payment of freight under a bill of lading even though the bill of lading stated that the freight was payable “as per charterparty” and the vessel’s time charterer was not in default.
Read the tenth edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is delighted that leading energy and infrastructure sector publication IJGlobal has named five deals the firm advised on ‘Deals of the Year 2020’ at their annual awards ceremony.
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, a Supreme Court decision on the procedure for enforcing arbitration awards against foreign states, a Privy Council decision on setting aside arbitration awards on public policy grounds, plus an important warning on the recording of remote hearings.
Read the ninth edition of our weekly update of Italian labour law.
The operator of a large UK-based power station has successfully argued before the English Technology and Construction Court that it was entitled to withhold from retention for latter phases of work sums in respect of remedial works to earlier phases of that work.
Our German Regulatory team publish a regular newsletter offering insights into changes and challenges within the public sector in Germany.
The Employment Group will look at the challenges of “hybrid” flexible working and recent developments in employment law.
In this week’s Commercial Disputes Weekly, an interesting judgment on the status and effect of an in rem judgment on an in personam collision claim, as well as the latest on anti-suit injunctions.
Corporate and M&A Partners Daniel Saunders and Mark Tooke, in a feature article for Bunkerspot, discuss the increase in M&A, joint venture and direct investment activity in maritime technology from investors both within and outside of the maritime industry.