03/04/2024
Shifting currents: A breakfast seminar on the latest in shipping caselaw, May 2024
Start your day with expert insights on the latest caselaw and developments in the law of shipping and international trade, from Twenty Essex’s outstanding team, served up alongside an excellent hot and cold breakfast.
Modern maritime law is multifaceted and ever-changing. Twenty Essex has acted in many of the industry’s most high-profile and commercially important cases, covering all aspects of wet and dry shipping disputes, as well as its myriad intersections with arbitration and ADR, insurance, conflicts of law, wider commercial litigation and public international law. Together, our barristers offer an unparalleled breadth of perspective on this complex world.
Twenty Essex is the ‘go-to’ chambers in London for maritime disputes — Legal 500, 2024
Hear our panel’s insights on contemporary shipping law topics, including:
- Deemed satisfaction of conditions precedent – the other principle in Mackay v Dick. A discussion of the Dias J’s decision in King Crude Carriers v Ridgebury [2023].
- The effect that different “subjects” provisions have upon whether binding contracts are entered into, by reference to The Leonidas [2021] 1 All ER (Comm)1157, The Newcastle Express [2023] 3 All E.R. 580 in the Court of Appeal, and the recent decision in The Aquafreedom [2024] EWHC 255 (Comm).
- Maersk v Almar-Hum [2024] EWHC 993 (Comm) – potentially the first reported instance where a positive finding of enforceability was actually reached (cf. The Mahkutai [1996] A.C. 650). Discussed in reference to Himalaya clauses and the enforcement of exclusive jurisdiction/arbitration clauses, as well as the (lack of) effect of foreign judgments obtained in breach of an exclusive jurisdiction clause.
This month, planned speakers are:
Please note that this event is invitation only. Contact our shipping practice team if you would like to come along.
Event details
08:30–10:30am, Tuesday 14 May
Breakfast from 08:30, talks 09:00–10:00
Join us in the Lower Court at No 23 Essex Street, our smart new social and seminar space.
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