Covered in this issue:
- BIMCO
-
- BIMCO publishes Wreckhire 2010
- Civil Procedure
-
- High Court grants relief from sanctions where the deadline for
service
of a witness statement was a bank holiday, and the statement was
served late
- High Court grants relief from sanctions where the deadline for
service
- Contract
-
- Commercial Court holds that a right of first refusal
constitutes a right
to receive a contractual offer on terms which the party who has granted
that right is prepared to accept - High Court holds that a party's duty to use "all
reasonable endeavours"
is not limited by that party's commercial interests
- Commercial Court holds that a right of first refusal
constitutes a right
- International Trade
-
- Court rules on a trade supplier's entitlement to sums
claimed from an
insurance company under three credit supplier guarantees
- Court rules on a trade supplier's entitlement to sums
claimed from an
- Jurisdiction
-
- Court of Appeal considers the issue of which court is first
seised under
the Brussels Regulation, when a first action which is not related to a
second action for the purposes of the Regulation is amended so as
to become related
- Court of Appeal considers the issue of which court is first
seised under
- Legal Profession
-
- Court finds that a conditional fee agreement is unenforceable
where its
effect has not been properly explained
- Court finds that a conditional fee agreement is unenforceable
where its
- Paris Mou
-
- Committee approves 2010 inspection results and adopts new
performance lists
- Committee approves 2010 inspection results and adopts new
- Privilege
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- Court of Appeal holds that privilege in advice received at a
meeting with
legal advisers has been waived when a witness statement refers to the
nature of that advice
- Court of Appeal holds that privilege in advice received at a
meeting with
- Sale of Goods
-
- European Court of Justice considers the meaning of "place
of delivery"
in the context of founding jurisdiction under the Brussels Regulation
- European Court of Justice considers the meaning of "place
of delivery"
- Shipping
-
- Commercial Court rules on the validity of a notice of readiness
tendered
when the berth was both occupied and unreachable due to
tidal conditions - Tribunal considers whether Charterers were in anticipatory
breach of a
charterparty by redelivering the vessel early, and if so whether Owners
accepted that breach as terminating the charterparty - Commercial Court considers the meaning of a provision in a
contract
for sale of a yacht that the vessel is to be of a particular Class - Admiralty Court rules on the apportionment of responsibility
for
a collision - Commercial Court finds that Owners are entitled to enforce a
letter of
indemnity given to Charterers by the receiver of the cargo, in a
situation where the cargo had been delivered to the receiver on
Charterers' instructions in the absence of presentation of original
bills of lading
- Commercial Court rules on the validity of a notice of readiness
tendered
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