How to deal with inconsistencies between two or more arbitration clauses – by Ioanna Vitta, Dimitris Anassis and Nazanin Tajbakhsh

In Transgrain Shipping BV -v- Deiulermar Shipping Spa (in liquidation) and Eleni Shipping Ltd [2014] EWHC 4202 (Comm) in which Thomas Cooper’s Piraeus office was recently involved… (read more)

Stowaways – An insight from Spain – by Victor Mata and Antonio de la Campa

The Convention on Facilitation of International Maritime Traffic, 1965, as amended, (The FAL Convention), defines a stowaway as “A person who is secreted on a ship…” (read more)

Spar Shipping AS v Grand China Logistics Holding (Group) Co Ltd [2015] EWHC 718 – by Tom Moisley and Charlotte Evenden

The judgment of Popplewell J in Spar Shipping AS v Grand China Logistics Holding (Group) Co Ltd [2015] EWHC 718 was handed down on 18 March 2015… (read more)

Anti-Suit Injunctions – the CJEU decision in Gazprom  –by Darryl Kennard and Clare Hammersley

Following the European Court’s decision in Allianz SpA v West Tankers Inc in 2009 (“West Tankers”), the inter-play between anti-suit injunctions and Council Regulation (EC) No. 44/2001… (read more)

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