Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).
Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.
For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.
28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120
singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230
Contact with chambers should be made through the Practice Management Team. They are happy to discuss client requirements and provide further information on such matters as the expertise and experience of individual members, fees, working practices and languages spoken. We have members able to work in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Greek and Chinese (Mandarin).
Outside working hours, a member of our team is always available to be contacted on matters of an urgent nature. Contact should be made using the Chambers main number or email.
For our Singapore office, for client enquiries please contact our BD Director, Asia Pacific, Lara Quie and for all other queries please contact Lynn Quek. Out of office hours calls will automatically be diverted to our clerking team in London.
28 Maxwell Road
#02-03 Maxwell Chambers Suites
Singapore 069120
singapore@twentyessex.com
t: +65 62257230
Andrew Dinsmore appeared for the successful Claimants in this case, which was the first English authority to apply the common law rule barring set-off against freight (the ‘Freight Rule’) to aviation. The Freight Rule was developed in the shipping context before being applied to international road haulage, domestic road haulage and then to freight forwarders. This case followed two Hong Kong authorities which had previously applied the Freight Rule to aviation: Emery Air Freight Corporation v Equus Tricots Limited [1989] 2 HKLR 554 and RAF Forwarding (HK) Ltd v Wong Angela t/a JMT Company [1999] 2 HKC 135. Further, at paragraph 14 of the Judgment, Moulder J accepted that the rationale of the rule was to protect cash flow thereby clarifying that the Freight Rule was not simply an arbitrary rule of historical accident, as had been suggested in some previous authorities. This case is a significant development as it ensures that freight from road, sea and air are all treated equally.