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Key Insights from the Law Commission’s Discussion Paper by Joe Cunningham * The Law Commission’s recent discussion paper, “AI and the Law”, provides a high-level examination of how the legal …
Tonzip Maritime Ltd v 2Rivers PTE Ltd (The Catalan Sea) [2025] EWHC 2036 (Comm) is a recent decision of Hochhauser J on a purported cancellation by owners of a charterparty …
A couple of recent ‘torpedo’ claims where claims against a carrier under a bill of lading in a foreign jurisdiction where the bill of lading contains an exclusive English Jurisdiction …
Today, 1 July 2025, marks a significant milestone in cross‑border dispute resolution: the Hague Judgments Convention 2019, formally known as the “Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of
Professor Barış Soyer and Dr Jia Wang recently presented the initial findings of their ERCS-funded research on SME insurance at Swansea.Com Stadium on 10 July 2025. They shared the platform …
In an age when our faces, voices, and even gestures can be convincingly recreated with a few lines of AI code, Denmark has stepped forward with a striking new proposal: …
Following on from the Commission’s Omnibus proposals in April 2025, on 25 June 2025 The Council generally accepted the Commission’s revised CSDDD amendments, subject to a few important additional amen
There’s some serious equity argument in today’s Supreme Court decision in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II [2025] UKSC 28, of a kind you probably only dimly remember from the third …
Two important Hague-Visby issues recently came up for decision by Sir Robin Knowles KC in The Taikoo Brilliance [2025] EWHC 1878 (Comm) – the meaning of ‘suit’ in Art. 3(6), …
July tends to be a quiet month for UK football fans, apart from the odd pre-season friendly and rumours of new signings. Therefore, the surprising announcement that Snoop Dogg has …
A shipowner faces misdelivery claims on three vessels carrying timber. Not to worry, it has an LOI from its charterer. Problem is that said charterer is now insolvent. So why …
When can a shipowner claim an indemnity from a time charterer in respect of losses that arise from the carriage of cargo to a country whose courts wrongfully find the …
Two important Hague-Visby issues recently came up for decision by Sir Robin Knowles KC in The Taikoo Brilliance [2025] EWHC 1878 (Comm) – the meaning of ‘suit’ in Art. 3(6), …
There’s some serious equity argument in today’s Supreme Court decision in Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II [2025] UKSC 28, of a kind you probably only dimly remember from the third …
Following on from the Commission’s Omnibus proposals in April 2025, on 25 June 2025 The Council generally accepted the Commission’s revised CSDDD amendments, subject to a few important additional amen
In an age when our faces, voices, and even gestures can be convincingly recreated with a few lines of AI code, Denmark has stepped forward with a striking new proposal: …
Professor Barış Soyer and Dr Jia Wang recently presented the initial findings of their ERCS-funded research on SME insurance at Swansea.Com Stadium on 10 July 2025. They shared the platform …
Today, 1 July 2025, marks a significant milestone in cross‑border dispute resolution: the Hague Judgments Convention 2019, formally known as the “Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of
A couple of recent ‘torpedo’ claims where claims against a carrier under a bill of lading in a foreign jurisdiction where the bill of lading contains an exclusive English Jurisdiction …
Professor Simon Baughen Professor Simon Baughen was appointed as Professor of Shipping Law in September 2013 (previously Reader at the University of Bristol Law School). Simon Baughen studied law at
