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August 2014
“Discharged at the expenses and risk of Receivers/Charterers” – who is liable for stevedore damage to cargo on outturn?
Societe de Distribution de Toutes Merchandises en Cote D’Ivoire trading as “SDTM-CI” v Continental Lines N.V. and another (the SEA MIROR) [2015] EWHC 1747
more >>A new way of looking at damages for repudiation of a voyage charter.
Louis Dreyfus Commodities Suisse SA v MT Maritime Management BV [2015] EWHC 2505 (Comm)
more >>August 2014
Novoship UK Limited (& 14 Others) v Vladimir Mikhaylyuk (& 7 Others) [2012] EWHC 3586
Mike Lax and Robert Pollock-Hill acted for a Russian businessman, Mr Nikitin (the 6th Defendant) and two companies controlled by him (the 7th and 8th Defendants) in a dispute heard in the Commercial Court between the London agent of the Russian shipping company, JSC Novoship (now part of Sovcomflot) and various one ship companies.
more >>Effect of Amended BIMCO Piracy Clause. Whether consent of Owner needed to transit piracy areas. Whether Owner in repudiatory breach by insisting that consent needed to be sought and provided for each transit.
June 2014
The Bulk Uruguay [2014] EWHC 885The case concerned the issue of whether Disponent Owners were in anticipatory breach of a three year charter so as to entitle the Charterers to treat themselves as discharged from further performance.
more >>December 2013
Mike Lax, senior partner of London shipping law firm Lax & Co LLP, has welcomed the decision of the English Supreme Court to refuse Russian state-owned shipping monolith Sovcomflot permission to appeal in the Fiona Trust case, thus bringing to an end litigation which has been rumbling on for eight years.
more >>March 2013
Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 14 March 2013, BP Oil International Limited v Target Shipping Limited
The Court of Appeal in London has upheld the entitlement of a shipowner to full freight in respect of an entire oil cargo transported under a charter party which provided for a minimum quantity and included an 'overage' discount.
more >>March 2013
Commercial Court, 20 January 2012, Sealion Shipping Ltd and Toisa Horizon Inc v Valiant Insurance Company
The Court of Appeal in London recently dismissed an appeal by loss-of-hire insurers against a Commercial Court judgment in favour of shipowners, represented by Lax & Co, in a dispute over alleged material non-disclosure and / or misrepresentation.
more >>2017
Lax & Co LLP’s “outstanding” team provides a “personal service” and “practical advice”. Highlights included acting for MUR Joint Ventures in a dispute with Compagnie Monegasque de Banque. Team head, Mike Lax, handles shipping and international trade matters, including arbitration, charterparties, bills of lading, and salvage and collision work. He is assisted by Stuart Dench, who advises on chaterparty and bills of lading disputes, in addition to shipbuilding contracts and sale and purchase disputes; Imogen Rumbold, who handles commodities disputes; and Robert Pollock-Hill. more >>2017
Michael Lax of Lax & Co LLP has an extensive shipping practice in which he represents a broad range of clients in all manner of matters. Areas of expertise include insurance, shipbuilding and charter party disputes. more >>