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
The Supreme Court (Lords Sumption, Toulson, Neuberger, Clarke and Mance) has handed down judgment in Bunge v Nidera [2015] UKSC 43, an important, unanimous, decision clarifying both the scope of Clause 20 in the GAFTA 49 Form (the Default Clause) and the decision of the House of Lords in The Golden Victory [2007] AC 353.
The central question was as to the quantum of damages in circumstances where the Sellers wrongfully repudiated the contract, but the Russian prohibition on the export of wheat during the summer of 2010 would have provided them with a right of termination had the contract continued in effect. The issues to be determined were:
Lords Sumption and Toulson, giving the two reasoned judgments, held that:
The decision of the Court of Appeal ([2014] 1 Lloyd’s Rep. 404, LJJs Moore-Bick, Floyd and Clarke) was reversed. The Buyers were awarded nominal damages in the sum of US$5.
Philip Edey QC and Leonora Sagan appeared for the Buyers (instructed by Hill Dickinson)