Amid the perilous egg-and-spoon race for seabed exploration, we don’t often get a chance to focus on a more traditional kind of hunting for precious metals on the seabed. Associated…
The steps required before an onerous or unusual term of a contract will be held to be binding A recent case in the English Court of Appeal refines what…
A recent English High Court case* reaffirms the high threshold for showing that an arbitral tribunal has “gone so wrong in its conduct that justice cries out for it to…
A few years ago, I had to grapple with a dissenting trade arbitrator who refused to sign an award. That trade arbitrator was subsequently removed (endorsed by the Court). We…
Time bar under the Hague Visby Rules Legal Insight from HFW Background The court recently clarified what a “suit” is for the purpose of the time bar under Article…